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Silverlight 3 Beta - Extensible Application Services

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 30th @ 1:14 AM | 2,378 Views | 2 Comments
The Application class in Silverlight 3 has a new trick for providing a central repository of services that are driven through a consistent life-cycle and can be easily obtained from anywhere else in your application. Here, we take a quick look.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Silverlight 3 Beta - Network Status Detection

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 30th @ 1:14 AM | 2,459 Views | 0 Comments
In this screencast we take a look at how we can build a simple control that automatically displays UI for when the network is online versus when it is offline using new features in Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Silverlight 3 Beta - Validation

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 29th @ 4:02 PM | 2,585 Views | 2 Comments
In this screencast we take a look at how we can handle exceptions from property setters that are used in Silverlight data binding and automatically or manually display error UI for those exceptions.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.[more ]
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Silverlight 3 Beta - Cached Platform Extensions

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 29th @ 4:01 PM | 1,972 Views | 0 Comments
In this screencast we take a look at how we can reduce the size of a Silverlight XAP by downloading Microsoft assemblies from Microsoft.com rather than packaging them into the XAP.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Silverlight 3 Beta - Writeable Bitmaps

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 29th @ 4:01 PM | 1,985 Views | 0 Comments
In this screencast we take a look at how we can create bitmaps in Silverlight 3 in order to display on the screen and discuss other possibilities for those bitmaps that might show up in the RTM version of Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Silverlight 3 Beta - GPU Acceleration

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 29th @ 4:01 PM | 1,856 Views | 0 Comments
In this screencast we take a look at how we can make use of GPU acceleration for video and bitmap scaling in Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.
Tags: en-GB, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, UKDevTeam

Interview - Andrew Fryer with Mike Taulty on LINQ and DBAs

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 28th @ 10:04 AM | 5,801 Views | 0 Comments
Andrew Fryer of Microsoft UK talking to Mike Taulty at the UK SQL Bits conference around LINQ and the confusion that LINQ can cause amongst DBAs given that the term LINQ appears in conjunction with many things including quite a few that have nothing to do with databases Smiley[more ]
Tags: en-GB, Entity Framework, LINQ, LINQ to SQL, UKDevTeam

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 23rd @ 2:12 PM | 4,801 Views | 0 Comments
At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about what he's currently playing with in his spare time - the WCF REST Starter Kit.[more ]
Tags: .NET Framework, en-GB, REST Starter Kit, UKDevTeam

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud"

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 23rd @ 2:10 PM | 4,676 Views | 0 Comments
At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about how developers can prepare themselves for Cloud Computing.[more ]
Tags: Azure Platform, Cloud Computing, en-GB, UKDevTeam

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Apr 23rd @ 2:07 PM | 4,590 Views | 0 Comments
At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about the timescales for Cloud Computing.[more ]
Tags: Azure Platform, Cloud Computing, en-GB, UKDevTeam
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