November 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Blend Bits 19–Transformations

In Blend, transformations live down on the very appropriately named Transform section of the Propeties panel; where there’s some fairly simple stuff that you can do and some more complex stuff. This is often used a lot whilst building animations or state-transitions...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 11:28 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

Blend Bits 18–Sample Data

Following on from that previous post about real data , of course we can also make sample data in Blend at the document or project level over in the data tab; All of those 3 menu options raised from the little icon with the drop down relate to creating sample...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 3:17 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

Channel 9 Revisited

I’ve just been doing a bit of a review around videos/screencasts that I’ve put on Channel 9 over the past few years and I’m staggered by how many viewings they’ve taken. From a quick count, it looks like I’ve put 112 different screencasts/videos onto Channel...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 12:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Channel9

Blend Bits 17–Coding in Blend

Blend seems to have been a little schizophrenic with regard to whether it wants you to write code inside the environment or not. Going from memory I think version 1 had a code editor and then 2 took it out and 3 might have put it back and beefed it up and 4...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2010 9:43 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

World’s Smallest Silverlight App ;-)

Just a bit of fun really but I was pondering over breakfast what the absolute smallest Silverlight “app” is that you can build? I made a vanilla web site project in Visual Studio and stared at the object tag instantiating the plug-in; <form id="form1"...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2010 9:27 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

C# 5.0–Rise of the Task

Yeah, I know – another cheesy title for a blog post I downloaded the CTP of asynchronous support in C# along with the corresponding specification as described by Anders in his recent PDC 2010 session . This has already been explained elsewhere so this post...

Published Mon, Nov 22 2010 12:05 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, ParallelExtensions, VisualStudio

Linked .NET Users Group Hosting ScottGu this Friday (19/11)

A quick plug for the Linked .NET User Group who you can find at their home over here; and who host regular online events with luminaries such as Don Syme, Scott Hanselman, Dan Wahlin, Jeremy Likness and so on. What they’ve also managed is to run pretty regular...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 12:36 AM by mtaulty

Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls

Following on from that previous post I thought it might be interesting to look across the controls that ship with the various frameworks (i.e. WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7) and see how they respond to being dropped into a touch-based interface....

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 1:24 PM by mtaulty

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

2nd December, Silverlight Firestarter Event (again!)

I advertised this event once before but I wanted to plug it again because since the last time I plugged it I think that the emphasis of the event and its importance has changed. The site now has a picture of “The Gu” dressed as Santa Claus with a steely glint...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 12:52 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Browser <3 Plugin

I should stop reading blogs and Twitter I’ve seen a lot of commentary saying something along the lines of; “if only ‘HTML5 ‘will come along and then we won’t need all these plugins” and I find it quite an odd idea. I suspect what it really means is something...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 11:09 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, Browsers, Flash, Plugins

Blend Bits 16: Real Data

In a world of Model View View Model, dependency injection and MEF you might not use this feature too frequently but Blend’s always had a feature for creating an instance of a real type for you and dropping it into your XAML. Over on the data tab there are the...

Published Tue, Nov 9 2010 11:02 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

PDC 2010 Session Downloader in Silverlight

I was struggling a little on the official PDC 2010 site to download all of the PowerPoints and videos I wanted and I scratched my head for a while before I found an OData feed which looked like it contained all the data I needed. That feed is at; http://odata...

Published Sun, Nov 7 2010 11:41 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend

Silverlight–Displaying Tookit Charts from XML Data

Every now and again I revisit my obsession with data-binding to XML data and Silverlight and this is one of those posts. Now, to be fair, this was prompted by chatting to Rich who pointed me at one of my old blog posts about binding to XML data; “Silverlight...

Published Fri, Nov 5 2010 1:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, XML, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example

Following on from that previous post I promised to make a simple example where an application would display 2 pictures and a single-finger drag would flip from one picture to another. Here’s my example as a WPF application, a Silverlight application and a Windows...

Published Thu, Nov 4 2010 7:14 PM by mtaulty

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

Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support

quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I’ve not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I’m just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous post...

Published Tue, Nov 2 2010 3:16 PM by mtaulty

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

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Blend Bits 19–Transformations

Blend Bits 18–Sample Data

Channel 9 Revisited

Blend Bits 17–Coding in Blend

World’s Smallest Silverlight App ;-)

C# 5.0–Rise of the Task

Linked .NET Users Group Hosting ScottGu this Friday (19/11)

Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls

2nd December, Silverlight Firestarter Event (again!)

Browser <3 Plugin

Blend Bits 16: Real Data

PDC 2010 Session Downloader in Silverlight

Silverlight–Displaying Tookit Charts from XML Data

Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example

Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support