June 2011 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Reactive Extensions RTW

I’m a big fan of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) and I’ve put together a post or two in the past and also even done a talk or two around the topic so it was great to see that the Reactive Extensions team have put out their first full release of the framework this...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 2:52 PM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Part 2)

Following up on my previous post about using the WebBrowser control to display HTML content that is stored in the filesystem and so available offline I thought I’d experiment with a little code. I wrote a couple of HTML pages that look like this in IE9 (running...

Published Fri, Jun 24 2011 12:16 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps

“Silverlight is a browser plug-in” In the early days of Silverlight, it was fairly easy to understand that Silverlight content would always be rendered inside of a browser window (whether that be IE, Chrome, Firefox or Safari) where it was surrounded by the...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 12:18 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight

Mosaic by Tribune

I was very impressed by the Mosaic application that you can read more about on the Windows Azure blog or by hopping over to the Mosaic site; I’ve only tried the Windows version so far but I’m keen to get the Windows Phone 7 version too and try that out – in...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 9:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Lacie 2Big NAS–Recovering Data with Good Drives/Bad Device

Today, my faithful Lacie 2Big NAS box which has served me reasonably well for a number of years had a bit of a problem. The box is a simple device which in my case has 2x500GB hard drives in it and runs them in a mirrored (RAID1) configuration so that if a...

Published Fri, Jun 17 2011 3:55 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware, OffTopic

UK Tech Days– Gill Cleeren on WCF RIA Services

The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Gill Cleeren of Ordina talking about RIA Services; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then you should...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 2:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, UKCommunities, Blend, RIA, Microsoft UK

UK Tech Days–MVVM for Silverlight Development

The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine who did an excellent session around MVVM which you can enjoy from here; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 2:23 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, Blend, Microsoft UK

UK Tech Days– Rich Griffin on Expression Blend

The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Rich Griffin of XamlNinja.com taking you through a two part session on Expression Blend; Practical tips for use of the tool A worked example going from artwork through...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 2:13 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, Blend, Microsoft UK

UK TechDays–What’s New in Silverlight 5?

The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is my own session on “What’s New in Silverlight 5?”. You can find the main Tech.Days site by clicking on the image below; This is an overview where I try and give reasonable coverage...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 12:51 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, Blend, Microsoft UK

Windows Phone 7 App–ContactShare

I wanted to have a bit of fun with Windows Phone 7 and so I thought I’d build a little application as a background task. One thing that I miss from previous phones is that scenario where you meet someone and want to quickly swap contact details. With previous...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 11:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone, Expression

Windows 8

You may have noticed that there have been some announcements around Windows 8. At this early stage, it’s not my place to comment around a future version of Windows like this but I thought I’d provide some links to what’s already been publicly said; The All...

Published Fri, Jun 3 2011 1:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows

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Reactive Extensions RTW

Silverlight WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Part 2)

Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps

Mosaic by Tribune

Lacie 2Big NAS–Recovering Data with Good Drives/Bad Device

UK Tech Days– Gill Cleeren on WCF RIA Services

UK Tech Days–MVVM for Silverlight Development

UK Tech Days– Rich Griffin on Expression Blend

UK TechDays–What’s New in Silverlight 5?

Windows Phone 7 App–ContactShare

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