mtaulty

WPF 3.5 Sp1, WebBrowser Control

mtaulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:09:00 GMT

The WebBrowser control is a new addition for WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 - here we take a quick look at using it to browse a little HTML, load some HTML from a string or a stream and how we can call into browser code from WPF and vice versa.

WPF 3.5 Sp1, Splash Screen

mtaulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:07:00 GMT

A very quick screencast - looking at how we can put a splash screen on to a WPF 3.5 Sp1 application.

WPF 3.5 Sp1, Effects and Pixel shaders

mtaulty — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:05:00 GMT

The bitmap effects from WPF 3.0 and 3.5 have changed in 3.5 Service Pack 1 in that we now get hardware acceleration and also the ability to plug in 3rd-party or custom effects by writing pixel shaders. Here, we take a quick look at using effects and building our own simple shader.

WPF, ClickOnce and the .NET Client Profile

mtaulty — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:18:00 GMT

A simple demo of building a "Hello World" application with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then deploying it via ClickOnce to a clean Windows XP machine using the .NET Client Profile rather than the full .NET Framework.

UK PDC Attendees?

mtaulty — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:44:00 GMT

A placeholder for UK developers to comment and indicate that they're going to be out at PDC 2008. Maybe a place to try and organise some meet-ups.

This is perhaps not the best medium for doing this so feel free to suggest others or highlight ones that already exist.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Optimistic Concurrency

mtaulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:32:00 GMT

With Data Services, it's most likely that you'd use an optimistic locking strategy for the underlying data and the framework has built-in support which we take a look at here.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Batching

mtaulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:00 GMT

We can cut down the number of HTTP round-trips that we make from client to service by using the batching feature of Data Services. A service exposes a $batch endpoint that we can send multiple "CRUD" operations to in a single HTTP request.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Service Operations

mtaulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Service operations provide a way in which we can add to the core functionality of Data Services in order to expose your own arbitrary functionality by writing server-side functions that can still be invoked (with parameters) via the URI. Here, we take a quick look at how we can do this.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1), Query Interceptors

mtaulty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:09:00 GMT

Query interceptors (and change interceptors) allow us to plug code into the dispatch mechanism server side in order to run some of your own code as part of returning a result set or modifying data. Here, we take a quick look.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Silverlight Client

mtaulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:00 GMT

Building a basic Silverlight client for an ADO.NET Data Service.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - AJAX Client

mtaulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:35:00 GMT

Building a basic AJAX client for an ADO.NET Data Service. For this screencast you want the client library from here.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - .NET Clients

mtaulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Looking at how we can built a basic .NET client against an ADO.NET Data Service

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Querying

mtaulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:29:00 GMT

Taking a quick look at how we can build up URI's to query ADO.NET Data Services and what kind of built-in operators the URI format has.

ADO.NET Data Services (VS08 Sp1 B1) - Surfacing Data

mtaulty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Here we look at how we can surface our own custom data types and data from the ADO.NET Entity Framework over ADO.NET Data Services to quickly build a data-centric set of RESTful web services.

Silverlight - Insert/Update/Delete with the DataGrid

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

The DataGrid provides an editable, spreadsheet-like surface for your data - here we take a look at how we can do insert, update and delete with the grid.

Silverlight - Getting Started with the DataGrid

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

The DataGrid is one of the more complex controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and lends itself towards line-of-business applications. Here we take a look at getting started in using it to display data.

Silverlight - Embedding Custom Fonts

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Adding your own fonts to your application can make a real difference to its appeal and Silverlight makes it easy - we cover it off in less than 3 minutes!

Silverlight - Multiple Threads with BackgroundWorker

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Silverlight has the capability to run code on background threads and provides the BackgroundWorker class in order to make that simpler to program.

Silverlight - Loading Media at Runtime

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

A common requirement is to load images or videos at runtime - here we take a look at how you can easily do that.

Silverlight - Dynamically Loading Assemblies/Code

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

It can be useful to be able to dynamically load assemblies from the web in order to factor the application or add additional code at runtime. Here we look at how we can start doing that.

Silverlight - Reading/Writing XML

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Reading and writing of XML in Silverlight is done with the LINQ to XML API. Here, we take a quick look at how you go about XML access in Silverlight.

Silverlight - Displaying a Custom Splash Screen

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:22:00 GMT

If your XAP is large, the download time might be long and you need something to show the user whilst it's happening - create a custom XAML based splash screen.

Silverlight - Passing Parameters from your Web Page

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:22:00 GMT

How to receive parameters into your application from its instantiation on the containing web page.

Silverlight - Evaluating JavaScript from .NET Code

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:21:00 GMT

.NET code in Silverlight can evaluate dynamic pieces of Javascript code against the surrounding HTML environment. A very quick look here at what method to call to make this magic happen.

Silverlight - Handling HTML Events in .NET Code

mtaulty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:21:00 GMT

Events fired in the HTML DOM ( such as onclick from a button ) can be handled easily by .NET code inside the Silverlight Plug-In. A quick example...