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Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS

At last week’s Windows 8 developer events in London , I did a simple demo of putting together a flickR search for photographs using the Windows 8 Metro style app search contract. I didn’t implement all of the search contract, just a little of it and we didn...

Published Sun, Apr 1 2012 5:47 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, XAML

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

An additional resource I should definitely have added to the list that I published the other day around Windows 8 and Metro style app development; I’ve been a big Blend user for quite a number of years and while I thought that the preview that came out back...

Published Sun, Mar 4 2012 9:45 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, Windows8

Silverlight 5 Released

Silverlight 5 has been released today – you can find the official announcement over on the Silverlight site along with a link to the download and a list of the improvements in Silverlight 5 up on MSDN including features like; platform invocation integration...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 12:13 AM by mtaulty

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

Debugging Fun with the Async CTP

I was writing a short talk about the Async CTP and as part of that, I wrote this little WPF form which goes off to my local web server to grab an image and display it; produces when you click on the “Get Image” button that that image is just served up by my...

Published Tue, Nov 1 2011 6:38 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VB, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, Async CTP

Visual Studio Async CTP–Simple Examples in ‘Quiz’ Form

This one’s just a bit of “fun” for a Friday afternoon ( depending on how you define “fun” ). I was writing some asynchronous code yesterday in JavaScript and I then had cause to duplicate it in .NET using the await support of the Async CTP which I’ve tried...

Published Fri, Oct 14 2011 5:04 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions, VisualStudio, Async CTP

“Reactive Extensions for .NET” talk from DDD North

Following up on that previous post about the DDD North event here’s the screen-captured version of my Rx talk from the event with a couple of longer sections inserted into it that I ( quietly ) took out on the day based on the timing. I’d recommend going full...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2011 1:57 PM by mtaulty

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

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

If you moved to the Silverlight 5 RC then you’d probably be wanting the companion version of Expression Blend. Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 Enjoy

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 10:21 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 RC–Low Latency Sound Effects

Back on the Silverlight 5 beta, I ported an old Expression Blend sample to use the new XNA low latency sound effect classes in SL5 ( post is here ). I thought I’d take a look at it under the Silverlight 5 RC – the only changed that I had to make was (it seems...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:47 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 RC–TrickPlay and Media Remote Controls

At the time of the Silverlight 5 beta, I’d put together a simple demo around some of the new media capabilities (not all of them as I’ve never been too hot on the DRM stuff) in Silverlight 5. This demo involved playing the trailer from the then new X-Men movie...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:46 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 RC–MarkupExtensions and DataContextChanged

When the Silverlight 5 beta shipped, one of the things that I wrote about was trying to use a markup extension in order to link between something like a Click event on a Button and a method to be invoked on the ViewModel rather than on the view. And so if I...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:42 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 RC–Platform Invocation

One of the big features of Silverlight 5 for me is platform invocation. If you’ve been around .NET for a while then you’ll know that this has (since day 1) represented the “get out of jail free card” because it allows .NET code to call into pretty much any...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 9:37 AM by mtaulty

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

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate

The release candidate for Silverlight 5 is now available for download over on the Silverlight.NET site. You can go there directly; http://www.silverlight.net/learn/overview/what's-new-in-silverlight-5 or, alternatively, pop over to Pete Brown’s blog where...

Published Fri, Sep 2 2011 8:53 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Expression

Windows Phone App–ContactShare Updated for ‘Mango’

I’d managed to get my Windows Phone upgraded to the ‘Mango’ developer beta 2 release and so I thought I’d revisit my amazing ContactShare application that I’d built against the RTM version of Windows Phone. Firstly, I thought it’d be good to do a quick...

Published Thu, Sep 1 2011 7:13 PM by mtaulty

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

FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx

This one was just a side-product of something else that I was toying with but I’d made this little Silverlight screen that let me search FlickR; which you can run by clicking on the image above if you like ( it’s not too polished ) but I used the Reactive Extensions...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 5:28 PM by mtaulty

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

.NET Bookshelf–How Big Is Yours?

I happened to have the books off the book-shelf in my office yesterday and I’d been pondering .NET and it led me to wondering; “How many books about or still relevant to .NET do I have?” Now, to be clear, this is just books that I still have on my shelf...

Published Wed, Aug 10 2011 9:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

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Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

Silverlight 5 Released

Debugging Fun with the Async CTP

Visual Studio Async CTP–Simple Examples in ‘Quiz’ Form

“Reactive Extensions for .NET” talk from DDD North

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

Silverlight 5 RC–Low Latency Sound Effects

Silverlight 5 RC–TrickPlay and Media Remote Controls

Silverlight 5 RC–MarkupExtensions and DataContextChanged

Silverlight 5 RC–Platform Invocation

Silverlight 5 Release Candidate

Windows Phone App–ContactShare Updated for ‘Mango’

FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx

.NET Bookshelf–How Big Is Yours?