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Dell Inspiron 5150 Fixed!

I've had my Dell Inspiron 5150 fixed in that Dell have replaced the motherboard on it. I'm now in the process of re-installing the OS on the machine when I come across a BIOS update on the Dell web-site; "Corrects Inspiron 5150 systems that experience...

Published Mon, Nov 1 2004 2:05 AM by mtaulty

Xbox Live, Wireless networking with LinkSys WGA54G

I've been away working all week and so when I got home yesterday I was pretty keen to pick up the combination box that I'd ordered from Amazon including an Xbox Live starter kit and a LinkSys WGA54G wireless adapter which I was hoping would plug into the back...

Published Sat, Mar 27 2004 10:18 AM by mtaulty

WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility

With the release of the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (go here http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse for a download) I thought I’d publish my efforts at providing a secondary tracing utility. WSE 2.0 has tracing facilities that can be switched...

Published Tue, May 25 2004 8:20 AM by mtaulty

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

Halo 2

I've been playing Halo 2 on the Xbox a little and I managed to finish the single player game a while ago - great game, very cinematic in places (although that could be reflection that a lot of big budget films are starting to feel more like "games"...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2004 4:49 PM by mtaulty

First Steps with ADO.NET Synchronisation Services

I've had a first attempt at playing with the new ADO.NET synchronisation services this weekend so I thought I'd share here. ADO.NET Synchronisation Services is a technology for helping with those online/offline applications where you need to get data down to...

Published Mon, May 21 2007 6:35 AM by mtaulty

Second Steps with ADO.NET Synchronisation Services

Following up on this post where I just got started with Sync Services , if I want to do more than just an occasional snapshot of data from server to client then I need to do a bit more work. If I want to do incremental downloads of data from my server to my...

Published Mon, May 21 2007 6:56 AM by mtaulty

“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

Silverlight & WPF Control Browser

More than once, I’ve found myself wanting to be able to demonstrate the range of controls that are available for Silverlight and WPF and, today, I ended up in that same place and decided to do something about it. I built a very, very simple WPF application...

Published Tue, Feb 3 2009 11:40 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, NETFramework4

LINQ to Video #18

For the initial post, see here . This is the last LINQ to SQL video that I've got at the moment. There's the possibility of exploring new topics (grouping? sorting?) in some future videos but for the minute I've run out of steam :-) Coming next - some videos...

Published Thu, May 10 2007 12:36 AM by mtaulty

PDC 2010 Session Downloader in Silverlight

I was struggling a little on the official PDC 2010 site to download all of the PowerPoints and videos I wanted and I scratched my head for a while before I found an OData feed which looked like it contained all the data I needed. That feed is at; http://odata...

Published Sun, Nov 7 2010 11:41 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend

SmartPhone/Bluetooth Remote Control for PowerPoint

I've been writing some code. A week or two ago I bought a Bluetooth dongle for the bargain price of £12 or so in order that I could use my E200 SmartPhone as a modem from my laptop over Bluetooth in those rare circumstances when I'm nowhere near a wired...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2004 1:03 PM by mtaulty

50 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Screencasts

In my "spare time" I've been recording some screencasts about Silverlight 2 Beta 1 along with my colleague Mike . This managed to reach critical mass in that we've now built up a list of 50 screencasts so I thought it was definitely time to share rather than...

Published Thu, May 15 2008 2:34 AM by mtaulty

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (1 - Overview)

A big part of the Silverlight 4 release is the new WCF RIA Services framework. Its worth pointing out that WCF RIA Services doesn’t only target Silverlight clients – it also targets AJAX clients but I’m sticking with the Silverlight side of the house here....

Published Tue, May 4 2010 1:57 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, WCFRIAServices

Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop?

I was reading Tim’s post over here on “Silverlight 4 with COM can do anything – on Windows” which referenced Justin’s amazingly detailed post with a bunch of COM interop examples from Silverlight 4 . A Silverlight 4 beta application that has been explicitly...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 1:34 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

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