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Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference

I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on. There’s very little that I can say...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 9:54 AM by mtaulty

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

“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

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

Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator…

If I had a penny for every time I heard someone from Microsoft say “I’m not a designer” when working with Blend then I’d be a rich man. Naturally, Microsoft does have some very fine designers but, unfortunately, it’s not me so I also end up having to say the...

Published Thu, Feb 3 2011 4:49 PM by mtaulty

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

Reactive FlickR Searching…

A bit of an experiment… I was tinkering with some code the other day to pull down some images from FlickR using one of their RESTful APIs for searching. Essentially, it revolves around building up a URI to represent the search which (in my case) looks something...

Published Tue, Feb 1 2011 9:59 AM by mtaulty

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

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

UK Virtual Client Conference–”Modern Windows Applications” Session

We ran an online event in the UK yesterday around client technologies with the main themes being around Silverlight, HTML, Internet Explorer and Windows. We had some great speakers including; Jon Harris from the Expression Blend team John Allwright, John Papa...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 5:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, VisualStudio, Microsoft UK

Blend Bits 17–Coding in Blend

Blend seems to have been a little schizophrenic with regard to whether it wants you to write code inside the environment or not. Going from memory I think version 1 had a code editor and then 2 took it out and 3 might have put it back and beefed it up and 4...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2010 9:43 AM by mtaulty

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

Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls

Following on from that previous post I thought it might be interesting to look across the controls that ship with the various frameworks (i.e. WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7) and see how they respond to being dropped into a touch-based interface....

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 1:24 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Blend, WindowsPhone

Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example

Following on from that previous post I promised to make a simple example where an application would display 2 pictures and a single-finger drag would flip from one picture to another. Here’s my example as a WPF application, a Silverlight application and a Windows...

Published Thu, Nov 4 2010 7:14 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support

quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I’ve not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I’m just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous post...

Published Tue, Nov 2 2010 3:16 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone

Silverlight versus HTML5? Really?

“Someone’s got it in for me, They’re planting stories in the press. Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it quick, but whether they will I can only guess.” “Idiot Wind” , Bob Dylan, 1974 A couple of lines that seemed relevant to me in all the commentary that...

Published Mon, Nov 1 2010 9:36 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

“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

Touched ( Part 2 )–Raw Touch Events

Following on from that previous post I wanted to take a look at processing raw touch events. In truth, I suspect that most application developers don’t want raw touch events and would rather work at the level of gestures and/or manipulations but being able...

Published Sat, Oct 16 2010 12:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 1 )–Getting Touch for Free

Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it’s hardly alone amongst the Android, iPhone...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 9:06 AM by mtaulty