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Morgan on MVVM in WPF

Morgan ( a double ex-colleague of mine and all round genius ) has got an interesting blog post over here on how he finds it painful to implement commands in WPF application and a possible way around some of that pain via custom type descriptors. I spotted this...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 9:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

KoodibooK Book Publishing – WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC2, Azure

Earlier in the year I dropped in to see some former colleagues of mine who are working on a new product/service called KoodibooK at their software company in Bath (UK). KoodibooK is a product that allows you to build up a set of photographs into a book, publish...

Published Wed, May 5 2010 9:25 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, AzureServicesPlatform, ASP.NET, UK ISVs

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

VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension

Karl has what looks like a fantastic extension to the XAML editor in VS2010 here .

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 8:26 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

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

Highlights of 2009

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I’d try and drill out my own set of “top 5” blog posts for 2009 as it draws to a close. Here’s the top 5 most viewed blog posts that I wrote this year; Silverlight & WPF Control Browser A quick look at...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 5:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

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

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence

Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence; “The Future of Client App Dev: WPF and Silverlight Convergence” It’s funny as someone asked me just yesterday what my view was about Silverlight/WPF post-PDC and in the light of Silverlight 4...

Published Tue, Dec 1 2009 3:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, NETFramework4

WPF 4 Beta 2 Feature Walkthroughs ( Text and LayoutRounding )

I’ve been really enjoying Lester’s feature walkthrough posts over here about various features of WPF V4 Beta 2; Concluding “New WPF Features” Series There’s some really good stuff in there. It made me author a couple of XAML files. Text display is arguably...

Published Tue, Dec 1 2009 3:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, NETFramework4

Cartogoo’s 3D Surveyor

I got pinged an interesting link from Linda over at Black Marble about a company that they’ve worked with called Cartogoo who have built a multi-touch surveying & mapping application – interesting app and you can see a quick demo over here ( assuming my...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2009 1:07 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

ScottGu on WPF 4

Scott put out a great post overnight on new features in WPF V4 – well worth a read. Scott’s Post I think I’d better come up with something original for this blog with my next post as the last 3-4 have just been me pointing to work done by Scott :-)

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 2:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, NETFramework4

Linked In Talk - “Beyond Silverlight with WPF”

If you came along to the talk that I did for the Linked In .NET User Group today via Live Meeting then thanks very much for doing that and I promised you a number of links which I’m listing here. I showed bunch of different items; “WPF Airlines” Logical Pixels...

Published Wed, Oct 7 2009 2:12 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, NETFramework4

PDC 2009: Workshop - “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs”

It looks like I’ve struck Gold and managed to get myself lined up to help out at PDC09 on the pre-conference workshop; Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3 “Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help developers to create innovative, compelling...

Published Tue, Sep 8 2009 12:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities

Silverlight 3 UK Launch – Interview with Ian Ellison-Taylor

At the recent Silverlight 3 UK launch I got a chance to catch up with Ian Ellison-Taylor who’s Microsoft’s General Manager for Presentation Platform and Tools. As usual at Microsoft, I had to ask for a translation around what that job title means and, in simple...

Published Wed, Aug 5 2009 1:14 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities

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Morgan on MVVM in WPF

KoodibooK Book Publishing – WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC2, Azure

TechDays UK – Client Development Sessions (80%) Available

VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension

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

Highlights of 2009

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

Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence

WPF 4 Beta 2 Feature Walkthroughs ( Text and LayoutRounding )

Cartogoo’s 3D Surveyor

ScottGu on WPF 4

Linked In Talk - “Beyond Silverlight with WPF”

PDC 2009: Workshop - “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs”

Silverlight 3 UK Launch – Interview with Ian Ellison-Taylor