October 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog

UK Event: Aberdeen Developers’ .NET User Group, 11th November

Just a quick plug. I’ll be speaking at the Aberdeen Developers’ User Group on the 11th November. I’ll be covering off new things that have happened in the Silverlight world and my colleague Mike will be talking about developing for the new Windows Phone 7....

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 2:01 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, Blend

Blend Bits 15: The Data Store

There’s lots of data features in Blend to provide food for future posts but this post is about the data store that showed up in Blend 4. This is a fairly simple idea and I suspect that I’d use it more in the realm of a SketchFlow application than I would in...

Published Sat, Oct 23 2010 11:50 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

“Modern Windows 7 Applications” (UK Steve Ballmer Event Recording)

I delivered a session on “Modern Windows 7 Applications” the other week in London at a special developer event that we put together as Steve Ballmer was in town and offered to come along and get in front of some UK developers. Not an offer that we were likely...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 9:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, NETFramework4, Microsoft UK

Silverlight Installation and Upgrade Experience

Andrew has a fantastic post over here about the install/upgrade experience for the Silverlight plug-in itself and for your app.

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 4:05 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Touched ( Part 2 )–Raw Touch Events

Following on from that previous post I wanted to take a look at processing raw touch events. In truth, I suspect that most application developers don’t want raw touch events and would rather work at the level of gestures and/or manipulations but being able...

Published Sat, Oct 16 2010 12:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 1 )–Getting Touch for Free

Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it’s hardly alone amongst the Android, iPhone...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 9:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone

A Local PDC Event–Microsoft, Reading, October 28th and 29th

I’m not attending the PDC in Redmond this year. It’ll be the first one that I’ve missed in around 7-8 years but the timings clashed with some other things that I’ve got going on back at home. However…the PDC is going out onto the web so I’m not going to miss...

Published Wed, Oct 13 2010 4:40 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Silverlight Firestarter Event – December 2nd

Here’s the agenda. Register for online or if you can get yourself to the North West corner of the US then register for in-person . Time Presenter Session Details 8:00 am Scott Guthrie Silverlight Firestarter Keynote 9:00 am Jesse Liberty Masterful...

Published Tue, Oct 12 2010 12:18 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, RIA

Blend Bits 14: Fluid Movement

1) In Use… On the one hand, I find the FluidMoveBehavior in Blend very simple. When an item’s layout changes I can use the behavior to have the item animate from its previous layout position to its new layout position rather than having the change be instantaneous...

Published Tue, Oct 12 2010 12:14 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

The Magnificent Seven

Ah, I know it’s a cheesy title but then today’s a big day for Windows Phone 7 and I’m excited about the prospect of getting my hands on a device at long last ( not that I have one at the moment, mind ). Now, which one of these UK phones can I point my Silverlight...

Published Mon, Oct 11 2010 11:53 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Surface, Blend, WindowsPhone

Microsoft UK Home Page

I popped to the Microsoft UK Home Page and it has been made interesting and different to the US home page I wonder who’ll get fired for taking the initiative and breaking away from the corporate blue? BTW – it’s also running more Silverlight than it...

Published Mon, Oct 11 2010 11:44 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, Microsoft UK