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Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread

This one comes from a customer who thought that they were seeing an issue in using the browser HTTP stack in Silverlight to make lots of HTTP requests. The issue seemed to be that the stack was blocking the UI thread and causing the UI to stutter. The suspicion...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 9:41 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio
Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4

Borrowing the content from Karl’s original blog post – there’s a new book on Prism available from O’Reilly or Amazon with an eBook on its way and the MSDN materials here What’s In The Book? Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 11:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, Silverlight, VisualStudio, PnP, RIA, PRISM
IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics

Yesterday, I was doing a little work with Silverlight and I’ve got this little sample that I’m working on; and one of the things that it does it talk XML or JSON to a back-end service depending on the value of the ComboBox up in the top right hand area. I wanted...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 9:29 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, IE
Blend Bits 27–“Make it Flip”

This one comes from showing Blend to a few people yesterday and trying to think of various scenarios for making use of different visual states for a UI or for a control and one that came up was “can you make one of those UIs where we have a panel with...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2011 11:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits
Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies

One of the things that’s a bit annoying with Expression Blend is that when you go to reference an assembly you get the standard Windows file open dialog. That is; raises the dialog; and that’s not what you see in Visual Studio and makes hunting down the assemblies...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2011 8:46 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, Blend, BlendBits

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March 2011 - Mike Taulty's Blog

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Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4

IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics

Blend Bits 27–“Make it Flip”

Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies