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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

CSS3 Transitions and Animations

Animations in the XAML based world I first really came to animations as part of UI (other than the odd animated GIF that we used to use to display file copy progress and so on) with the arrival into my world of WPF and then Silverlight. In that world, you have...

Published Fri, Dec 9 2011 10:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: IE, HTML5, Windows, CSS

Zooming & Panning with CSS in IE 10

Something that I’ve been experimenting with just a little lately in the IE10 Preview (available on the Windows Developer Preview) is the idea of how simple HTML content (e.g. a DIV or an IMG) can respond to touch events in order to support the sort of gesture...

Published Fri, Dec 9 2011 9:17 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: IE, HTML5, Touch, CSS

Laying out HTML with CSS Grids

I’ve been working quite a lot lately with HTML and CSS and one of the things that I’m more than prepared to admit that I’m rubbish at is CSS-based layout. For those without a black-belt, CSS layout feels like a set of incantations that you have to get in exactly...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 2:39 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: IE, HTML5, Windows, CSS

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

JavaScript OMG #26 to #30

The Blurb: This is mostly just a bit of fun and in form of some rough notes as I’ve been sticking my head into a few JavaScript books and thought I’d write down what strikes me as odd/interesting along the way. Of course, I’ve written some bits of JavaScript...

Published Thu, Oct 13 2011 9:58 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: JavaScript, JavaScriptOMG

“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

DDD North–Sunderland, 8th October

I spent most of the day up at the first DDD North event in Sunderland yesterday and had a really good time – major congratulations to the guys that organised the event and thanks to speakers, sponsors, helpers and delegates who all devoted their time to making...

Published Sun, Oct 9 2011 11:40 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Back from BUILD

I’m fresh back from the BUILD conference over in California where I had a fantastic time. Naturally, it’s a very exciting time to be at Microsoft and working with client technologies and seeing the opportunities that the future holds for applications and developers...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2011 1:22 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows, Windows8

JavaScript OMG #21 to #25

The Blurb: This is mostly just a bit of fun and in form of some rough notes as I’ve been sticking my head into a few JavaScript books and thought I’d write down what strikes me as odd/interesting along the way. Of course, I’ve written some bits of JavaScript...

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 7:07 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: JavaScript, JavaScriptOMG

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

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

JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20

The Blurb: This is mostly just a bit of fun and in form of some rough notes as I’ve been sticking my head into a few JavaScript books and thought I’d write down what strikes me as odd/interesting along the way. Of course, I’ve written some bits of JavaScript...

Published Tue, Sep 6 2011 7:13 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: JavaScript, JavaScriptOMG

JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15

The Blurb: This is mostly just a bit of fun and in form of some rough notes as I’ve been sticking my head into a few JavaScript books and thought I’d write down what strikes me as odd/interesting along the way. Of course, I’ve written some bits of JavaScript...

Published Tue, Sep 6 2011 7:11 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: JavaScript, JavaScriptOMG

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Silverlight 5 Released

CSS3 Transitions and Animations

Zooming & Panning with CSS in IE 10

Laying out HTML with CSS Grids

Debugging Fun with the Async CTP

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

JavaScript OMG #26 to #30

“Reactive Extensions for .NET” talk from DDD North

DDD North–Sunderland, 8th October

Back from BUILD

JavaScript OMG #21 to #25

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

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

JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20

JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15