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WinJS Promises #1

I made a few short screencasts about promises in WinJS for Windows 8 Metro style apps. I know that promises are implemented in a bunch of frameworks but they were new to me and I spent a bit of time trying to figure them out as best I could and, generally,...

Published Wed, Apr 11 2012 12:02 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript

Windows 8 Metro style simple music app example

It was a long weekend here in the UK and it rained a little and so I had a bit of spare time to put together a make-it-up-as-you-go-along screencasts around a simplistic Windows 8 metro style app that lets me play music from albums found in my music library...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 9:19 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: VisualStudio, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, CSS

The Contextual Personal Computer–One Device, Many Contexts

This is a generic post – it’s not about any company’s products and it’s specifically not about the products that are made by the company where I work (in a very lowly capacity I’d like to add – I’m not some grand visionary who makes pronouncements or announcements...

Published Wed, Apr 4 2012 10:18 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS

At last week’s Windows 8 developer events in London , I did a simple demo of putting together a flickR search for photographs using the Windows 8 Metro style app search contract. I didn’t implement all of the search contract, just a little of it and we didn...

Published Sun, Apr 1 2012 5:47 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, HTML5, Windows8, JavaScript, XAML

Windows 8: Applications for the UK Windows Store

With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Developer Tools being widely available for the past few weeks and with previews of great, immersive Metro style apps like Cut the Rope, The Telegraph, Flixster, Evernote and a tonne more already in the Windows Store we’ve...

Published Sun, Mar 25 2012 12:29 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows8

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

An additional resource I should definitely have added to the list that I published the other day around Windows 8 and Metro style app development; I’ve been a big Blend user for quite a number of years and while I thought that the preview that came out back...

Published Sun, Mar 4 2012 9:45 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Blend, Windows8

Windows 8 UK Developer Tech.Days Events

Just a quick plug for some upcoming events that we’re delivering in March, April and (just) into May providing an overview of developing Metro style applications for Windows 8. You can find the details over on the Tech.Days site ; with the essential information...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2012 9:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows8

DevWeek 2012 and Windows 8

Just a quick plug for some upcoming activity. I’m very pleased to be heading back to DevWeek this year; As the picture says, there will be a good number of people from Microsoft there talking around Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Visual Studio ALM tooling. My...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2012 9:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows8

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Yesterday was a big day with the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 announced and shown at Barcelona Mobile World Congress and made available for public download. If you’ve been following along then you’ll know that this is the 2nd preview of Windows 8 to be made...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2012 8:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows8

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Keynote Video

The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 was announced and made available for download yesterday at an availability event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The event wasn’t streamed live on the web but today the video of the event is online for viewing/downloading...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2012 8:53 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows8

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

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WinJS Promises #1

Windows 8 Metro style simple music app example

The Contextual Personal Computer–One Device, Many Contexts

Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS

Windows 8: Applications for the UK Windows Store

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

Windows 8 UK Developer Tech.Days Events

DevWeek 2012 and Windows 8

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Keynote Video

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