Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 5 Released

mtaulty — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:13:30 GMT

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...(read more)

CSS3 Transitions and Animations

mtaulty — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:52:01 GMT

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...(read more)

Zooming & Panning with CSS in IE 10

mtaulty — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:17:19 GMT

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...(read more)

Laying out HTML with CSS Grids

mtaulty — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:39:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Debugging Fun with the Async CTP

mtaulty — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:38:08 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mtaulty — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:04:32 GMT

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...(read more)

JavaScript OMG #26 to #30

mtaulty — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:58:12 GMT

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...(read more)

“Reactive Extensions for .NET” talk from DDD North

mtaulty — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:57:09 GMT

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...(read more)

DDD North–Sunderland, 8th October

mtaulty — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:40:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Back from BUILD

mtaulty — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:22:29 GMT

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...(read more)

JavaScript OMG #21 to #25

mtaulty — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:07:20 GMT

Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

mtaulty — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:21:31 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mtaulty — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:56:56 GMT

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...(read more)

JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20

mtaulty — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:13:29 GMT

JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15

mtaulty — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:11:21 GMT