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DevWeek 2011

Just a quick plug – I’ll be speaking at DevWeek 2011 in mid-March down in London and it’d be great to see you at the event. I’ve been attending/speaking at DevWeek for quite a few years now and it’s a fantastic event made up of both DevWeek and SQL Server DevCon...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 10:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities
“Hello! Hello!”–Fake Microsoft Virus Phone Calls (logmein123.com)

While working at home today I was “lucky” enough to get a call from one of those scammers who rings your house and offers you technical assistance with your PC. There’s a decent write-up over here on the Guardian’s website of the sort of scam we’re talking...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 4:22 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Security, OffTopic
UK TechDays Virtual Client Conference–Resources

At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here. Session: Modern Windows Applications Visit Develop For Windows Download the WPF Ribbon Control...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 3:25 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities, Windows7, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, PnP, Blend, WCFRIAServices, OData, WCFDataServices, RIA, PRISM, Expression
“Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background”

This falls into the category of “just for fun” For a little while now I’ve been dropping small Silverlight tutorials onto the ActiveTuts site which is, primarily, geared towards Flash development. The ActiveTuts guys have been a real pleasure to work with,...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 3:01 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, Flash
UK Virtual Client Conference–”Modern Windows Applications” Session

We ran an online event in the UK yesterday around client technologies with the main themes being around Silverlight, HTML, Internet Explorer and Windows. We had some great speakers including; Jon Harris from the Expression Blend team John Allwright, John Papa...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 5:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, VisualStudio, Microsoft UK
Blend Bits 20–Group Into

A simple one but a good one nonetheless. Often you draw things on the artboard like this; and these elements are currently living in my LayoutRoot container which is a Grid but maybe I want to group these items into some other kind of container so I can just...

Published Fri, Jan 7 2011 12:30 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

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January 2011 - Mike Taulty's Blog

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DevWeek 2011

“Hello! Hello!”–Fake Microsoft Virus Phone Calls (logmein123.com)

UK TechDays Virtual Client Conference–Resources

“Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background”

UK Virtual Client Conference–”Modern Windows Applications” Session

Blend Bits 20–Group Into