Mike Taulty's Blog

Windows Phone/Windows 8 Event–London, June 16th and 17th

mtaulty — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:22:23 GMT

For me, there are a lot of similarities between an application developed for Windows Phone and a Metro style app developed for Windows 8. A Windows Phone 7 application (rather than an XNA game) is built in .NET and XAML against a subset of the .NET framework...(read more)

Windows 8, .NET, Async, Await, What’s Going On?

mtaulty — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:57:05 GMT

One of the things that I’ve seen at a number of the Windows 8 Developer Camps that we’ve been running across the country is that a subset of the .NET developers that are coming along are confronted with something that they haven’t seen before – asynchronous...(read more)

Windows Azure, Scott Guthrie, 22nd June, London

mtaulty — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:47:12 GMT

A quick plug for an event in London on the 22nd June. Scott Guthrie will be in the UK and will be keynoting a 4-track event on the Microsoft Cloud. You can grab tickets here: http://azureconference2012.eventbrite.com/ and the first 50 look to be free whereas...(read more)

HTML Authoring Features for Metro style apps in Blend

mtaulty — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:41:00 GMT

Nice video over on BlendInsiders giving an overview of using Blend for Windows 8 Metro style apps. Watch over here . Don't give up on it at the "Hello World" point - it goes quite a way beyond that....(read more)

"Programming Windows" goes Windows 8

mtaulty — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:15:00 GMT

Great to see that the "Programming Windows" book is getting a Windows 8 and Metro style app update and will be published for the Consumer Preview edition of Windows 8 as an eBook on the 17th May for $10. I'll be buying a copy :-) It's also...(read more)

Windows 8 Metro Style– Bits of Binding

mtaulty — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:08:23 GMT

Data binding is a useful tool in putting an application together and I’ve spent quite a long time with various frameworks that support different aspects of binding. In the last few years, that has mainly revolved around the binding support that you find in...(read more)

Hands-On Windows 8 Camps in May

mtaulty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:51:00 GMT

A quick plug for a number of hands-on camp events that we have around Windows 8 running next month spanning (for the minute) London and Birmingham; London, Wednesday 9 th May 2012 – Register here London, Thursday 10 th May 2012 – Register here London...(read more)

Background Downloads in a Windows 8 Metro style app

mtaulty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:56:59 GMT

It’s common for an application to want to download (or upload) content from the internet possibly with a view to caching that content so that a user doesn’t have to wait to access it in the future. Internet Explorer is a prime example of this where I’m browsing...(read more)

Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’

mtaulty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:04:13 GMT

A few months ago, I wrote the beginnings of a Windows 8 Metro style application that hosted the Bing Maps AJAX control and put a little functionality around it. At a recent event, an attendee was asking me about this kind of technique and so I thought I’d dust...(read more)

Windows 8 Metro Style Apps–Process Lifecycle Management

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:51:54 GMT

One of the major differences in building a Windows 8 Metro style application over a Windows desktop application is when and how the application gets to run. There’s a really good post just gone to the Windows 8 App Developer Blog today on this very topic; Managing...(read more)

WinJS Promises #6

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:13:43 GMT

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,...(read more)

WinJS Promises #5

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:11:21 GMT

WinJS Promises #4

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:08:53 GMT

WinJS Promises #3

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:06:27 GMT

WinJS Promises #2

mtaulty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:04:07 GMT