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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

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

“Modern Windows 7 Applications” (UK Steve Ballmer Event Recording)

I delivered a session on “Modern Windows 7 Applications” the other week in London at a special developer event that we put together as Steve Ballmer was in town and offered to come along and get in front of some UK developers. Not an offer that we were likely...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 9:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, NETFramework4, Microsoft UK

“The Way of MEF”–UK Sessions with Glenn Block

We were very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK recently and he did a whole morning talking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to a fairly packed room of around 120 developers on the UK Microsoft Campus. I was really pleased to be able to host...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 9:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, MEF

WCF DataServices & the Processing Pipeline?

I spent quite a lot of time with WCF Data Services (‘Astoria’/’ADO.NET Data Services’ as it was) in its first iteration. It’s a framework that I really like so I’m feeling a little guilty that I haven’t found time to completely revisit it as it becomes part...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, WCF, DataServices, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

OData Slides from the NxtGen User Group Festival

I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 11:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, ADO.NET, WebServices, WCF, EntityFramework, DataServices, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

Microsoft UK Event: Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) with Glenn Block

We’re very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK in July and on the 14th he’s going to be doing a half-day event at the Microsoft offices in Reading where he’ll be speaking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). MEF is a framework that shows up both...

Published Thu, Jun 3 2010 11:51 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, MEF

VS2010, Silverlight, Blend, Phone 7 Upgrade

I’ve been holding back on moving to Visual Studio 2010 RTM because I wanted to keep all the bits that I had on my machine working including the Windows Phone 7 preview developer bits handed out at MIX10. But I was finding it more painful to stay there ( because...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 4:40 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone

TechDays UK – Client Development Sessions (80%) Available

The sessions from the client development day at TechDays UK are available. I’ve brought them together here but you can also visit the TechDays site to grab slide-decks and other resources; “The Client Decade” Marc Holmes , Microsoft “Visual Studio 2010 and...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 12:57 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LINQ, WPF, UKCommunities, NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions, VisualStudio, MEF

Free Client Day at Microsoft TechDays UK – London, 15th April

I wanted to do a call out for the Client development day that we’re running as part of the UK TechDays event. This is a FREE event that’s running all day in London on the 15th April and it’s targeted at developers who are interested in hearing about client...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 1:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

MEF in the MSDN Magazine

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 4:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, NETFramework4

Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews

The other day I had a talk to give which included a little around Windows 7 shell programming in .NET 4.0 Beta 2 and I hadn’t really looked at it so I took a few mins out to take a look at how you can program the Taskbar in Windows 7 from WPF in Visual Studio...

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 1:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, Windows7, NETFramework4

Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0

This is what’s known as a “on the train” project :-) I wanted to get a version of Kaxaml that understood WPF 4.0 Beta 2 and so I spotted that the source was on CodePlex and thought I’d set about downloading it and seeing if I could get something going. I should...

Published Fri, Dec 4 2009 2:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, NETFramework4

Silverlight 4 – Sharing Assemblies with .NET Applications

This one’s just a link but an important link for anyone who’s heard that you can share assemblies between the Silverlight CLR and the full .NET desktop/server CLR. The CLR team has a blog post with the details; Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps

Published Thu, Dec 3 2009 3:34 PM by mtaulty