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HP8540W–Installing Windows 7 from USB Key (USB3?)

I got an HP8540W laptop a couple of months ago and at the time I had a bit of fun and games installing it. The machine has a main drive in it (SSD) and a secondary bay that can take a DVD-drive or another hard-drive and I have another hard-drive in there. I...

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 9:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware, Windows7

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

SteveB at the Microsoft Developer Forum, Japan

Just a link to some interesting things that SteveB talked about at the recent developer forum in Japan; I can’t find an online video of the session yet but the transcript is up here and has some interesting pointers around a few future areas. Please note that...

Published Tue, May 24 2011 11:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, C++, Windows7, VisualStudio, IE, HTML5, Browsers, Windows

ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications

One of the things that I talked a little about in my talk about “Modern Windows Applications on Windows 7” was around the idea of using a TaskDialog when you’re trying to get a response from the user rather than using your own custom dialog or a MessageBox...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 8:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Windows7, VisualStudio

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

Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)?

Silverlight applications are written as managed code which runs on a CLR which sandboxes the code. In Silverlight 1 and 2 this was easy to understand because all applications were running in a browser and it’s common to expect code running in a browser to be...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2010 4:53 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Windows7, VisualStudio

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

“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

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

“iPhone 4 is Dead”

Sure, it’s an attention-grabbing title and, of course, it’s complete nonsense. I was watching the #Silverlight and #WPF tags on Twitter this week and saw a stream of noise about how various client technologies from Microsoft are “dead” and the killer seemed...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 8:56 AM by mtaulty

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

Window Dressing

Today, I’m running both MetroTwit and Bend which show up on my desktop as; and neither have the traditional Windows decoration around them and I’m wondering whether having the non-client area of a Window drawn with transparent glass as in; led to a bunch of...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 3:46 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7

IE9 Platform Preview 3

If you’ve not been and done the test-drive of IE9 yet then the 3rd preview version has just gone out and it’s really, really worth taking a look even if you’re an internet-denier like me who thinks all this HTML and Javascript stuff will never take off and...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 9:53 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7, IE

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