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SteveB at the Microsoft Developer Forum, Japan

Just a link to some interesting things that SteveB talked about at the recent developer forum in Japan; I can’t find an online video of the session yet but the transcript is up here and has some interesting pointers around a few future areas. Please note that...

Published Tue, May 24 2011 11:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, C++, Windows7, VisualStudio, IE, HTML5, Browsers, Windows

Thanks for Visiting–Come Back Again Soon :-)

A bit embarrassing but a while ago one of my former managers encouraged me to use Google Analytics to measure the traffic that’s hitting this site. To be fair, it works pretty well and I’ve now got a few years’ worth of data so that I can do comparisons from...

Published Fri, May 20 2011 11:27 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Character Spacing and Line Stacking

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. The Silverlight 5 beta has a couple of more options around controlling text layout (with some more slated for the RTM of V5) with...

Published Thu, May 19 2011 3:14 PM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows

This was just a little of an “aha” moment for me that I thought I’d share. I was writing a small demo where I have this main Window for my UI and it’s just a DataGrid; and then when you click the Display button I open up a new child window to display that product...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 5:35 PM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Low Latency Sound Effects

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. As you’d expect, Silverlight can already play audio and has been able to since day one via the MediaElement class which doubles...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 11:42 AM by mtaulty

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

Customising a Smurf (or creating a custom Silverlight media player)

If you’ve been around Silverlight a little then you’ll know that there’s a framework called the Silverlight Media Framework (or SMF for short which is pronounced Smurf ) and it contains a tonne of pre-written code for playing media including things like smooth...

Published Fri, May 6 2011 3:16 PM by mtaulty

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

“Expression Blend for Silverlight Developers” (DevDays, Holland)

I did a fun talk on Expression Blend at the recent DevDays conference at the Hague in Holland. The basic idea of this talk was to (as much as possible in 75 minutes) take Expression Blend from scratch through to putting something together that involved things...

Published Thu, May 5 2011 10:45 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. I know next-to-nothing about 3D graphics which is a shame because it’s a huge feature for Silverlight 5. Not being one to give...

Published Thu, May 5 2011 10:03 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trick Play Video

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. Following up on that previous post I thought I’d try out the new TrickPlay feature of Silverlight 5 that lets you speed up or...

Published Tue, May 3 2011 1:18 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Hardware Decoded H.264

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. This is a simple one – I’d read that Silverlight 5 could now do hardware decoding of H.264 encoded video on Windows so I thought...

Published Tue, May 3 2011 12:23 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Reactive Extensions “for the rest of us” (DevDays, Holland, Part 2)

I wanted to follow up on that previous post with the video for the Reactive Extensions talk from DevDays with a blow-by-blow account of the code that I ran through. As an aside, since the talk I’ve updated my Rx libraries to pick up the very latest version...

Published Tue, May 3 2011 10:28 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Rx

Reactive Extensions “for the rest of us” (DevDays, Holland, Part 1)

I was lucky to be able to spend part of last week at the ever impressive DevDays conference out at The Hague in Holland. This is run by the Microsoft folks in Holland and I’ve been speaking at it for the past few years and I always find it’s one of the very...

Published Tue, May 3 2011 8:58 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Rx

MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp–Slides and Demo Code

I’ve uploaded all the slides and the demo code from the MIX11 Bootcamp that John and I delivered last month in Las Vegas. John has already written up his “guitar shop” demo so you can find additional notes on that post. For my own demos, I’ve included all the...

Published Tue, May 3 2011 8:51 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

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SteveB at the Microsoft Developer Forum, Japan

Thanks for Visiting–Come Back Again Soon :-)

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Character Spacing and Line Stacking

Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Low Latency Sound Effects

Customising a Smurf (or creating a custom Silverlight media player)

“Expression Blend for Silverlight Developers” (DevDays, Holland)

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trick Play Video

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Hardware Decoded H.264

Reactive Extensions “for the rest of us” (DevDays, Holland, Part 2)

Reactive Extensions “for the rest of us” (DevDays, Holland, Part 1)

MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp–Slides and Demo Code