December 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)?

Silverlight applications are written as managed code which runs on a CLR which sandboxes the code. In Silverlight 1 and 2 this was easy to understand because all applications were running in a browser and it’s common to expect code running in a browser to be...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2010 4:53 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Windows7, VisualStudio

Hardware Lineup 2011

As we head into 2011, I’m running a whole bunch of kit with the main items being; Phone I’ve had the HTC Mozart running Windows Phone 7 for about 5-6 weeks now and I’m really loving it – mainly I’m using it as a phone (!) and I’m finding that performance, battery...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2010 12:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware, OffTopic

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 7)

Following on from that previous post , the last thing that I wanted to do was just tidy up the styling around the new downloading dialog that I’d created and the UI for launching it. So, I opened up Blend once more and the first task is to replace that Download...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2010 10:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 6)

As it stands in that previous post , when the user selects to download a particular PowerPoint deck or a hi-def or lo-def video for a session, that information is only being stored in a view model ( the SessionViewModel ) and so it easily gets lost if the user...

Published Thu, Dec 30 2010 12:40 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 5)

Following on from the previous post I wanted to add some simple buttons so that when a user is looking at a list of sessions they can quickly click and select that they want to download all the available PowerPoints or all the available hi-def videos or whatever...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 11:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Ten

“Happy Birthday to me” I’m not sure about the “Star Wars” theme but the 10 fits the mark. It’s 10 years to the day since I joined Microsoft in the UK. Prior to joining Microsoft I’d had 6 (“proper”) jobs and the most time I’d managed to stay in any one of them...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 3:24 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 4)

Following on from that previous post , I thought it might be nice to take a bit of a break and spend a post putting a little effort into making things look a little better in Expression Blend. Part 4 – Working in Blend I opened up the solution in Blend (loading...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 3:35 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 3)

The application hasn’t shown any data yet and so in this post I’ll start trying to get some data onto the screen. Specifically, I’ll look to get the tracks view and the sessions view built albeit with a default UI that will need a lot of styling at a later...

Published Wed, Dec 8 2010 3:27 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 2)

Following on from that previous post , I wanted to have a MainView on the application that knows whether the app is in the browser, out-of-browser and/or elevated. Ultimately, this app is going to call the PDC OData service at a domain that does not have a...

Published Mon, Dec 6 2010 3:02 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 1)

I put together this application the other week for downloading videos from the 2010 PDC ; and I have to admit that I was a bit embarrassed because I’d put it together primarily because I wanted the functionality in a hurry but then people asked me for the source...

Published Thu, Dec 2 2010 2:48 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

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