Entries tagged with ukdevteam - Channel 9

(More) Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:13:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about "suteki", ASP.NET MVC, open source, why Suteki Shop and open frameworks.

Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:12:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about ASP.NET MVC, TDD, technology choices, pros, cons etc etc

Silverlight 3 Beta - Extensible Application Services

Mike Taulty — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT

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.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Network Status Detection

Mike Taulty — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT

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.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Validation

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:02:00 GMT

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.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Cached Platform Extensions

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

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.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Writeable Bitmaps

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

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.

Silverlight 3 Beta - GPU Acceleration

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

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.

Interview - Andrew Fryer with Mike Taulty on LINQ and DBAs

Mike Taulty — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:04:00 GMT

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 :-)

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:12:00 GMT

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.

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud"

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:00 GMT

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.

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:07:00 GMT

Silverlight 3 - Running Out Of Browser Apps on the Macintosh

Mike Taulty — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:50:00 GMT

A short screencast showing what it's like to install Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser applications onto Mac OS X. First, we put together a quick application which draws a chart from a WCF service providing data and then we deploy it out-of-the-browser on both my Vista machine and my iMac running OSX.

C# 4.0 New Features - Named Parameters

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Named Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

C# 4.0 New Features - Optional Parameters

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Optional Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

C# 4.0 New Features - COM Interop Enhancements

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:07:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (COM Interop Enhancements) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

Live Framework SDK, News & Sync Items (Part 2 of 2)

Mike Taulty — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:23:00 GMT

Here we follow up on the first Part of these two screencasts by taking the same application code and extending it to look at the SyncItems feed and how we can use that to monitor conflicts in data as it is synchronised.

If you're new to the Live Framework SDK preview, start here.

Live Framework SDK, News & Sync Items (Part 1 of 2)

Mike Taulty — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:18:00 GMT

NewsItems are a way for your application to build a user-centric log of what data changes have been made to DataEntries and DataFeeds. With an application that stores data into a Mesh, it's often tricky for a user to know why a particular set of data has been updated or deleted and NewsItems help the user fathom out what's gone on in the application. We'll follow up by looking at SyncItems in a separate screencast.

If you're new to the Live Framework SDK preview, start here.

Live Framework SDK, Sharing .NET Objects

Mike Taulty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:48:00 GMT

Follows straight on from the "Sharing Photos" screencast by adapting that application to share custom .NET object data in the Mesh.

Live Framework SDK, Sharing Photo Files

Mike Taulty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:44:00 GMT

Here, we follow up on previous Live Framework screencasts by showing how we can add file based data to a data feed in our Mesh and get the Mesh to do the work of synchronising those files across devices and/or users.

To illustrate it, we build a simple application in WPF that allows us to drag-and-drop photo files onto the UI and then adds them to a data feed in the Mesh.

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt4 - Smooth texture to WPF application

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:33:00 GMT

3D has traditionally been complex and challenging but with the advent of WPF, incorporating 3D into your applications is much more realistic. These 4 videos walk through the process of building a very simple 3D application.

I start by creating a re-usable 3D model of a yoghurt pot in Blender with textured surfaces representing interchangeable product artwork. This model is then imported into a WPF application via Expression Blend. I add some animation and user interaction via the 3D tools library on CodePlex and show how easy it is to switch the imagery to represent different products.

For an idea of what the final application looks like, visit my blog post or click here for the xbap.

Links to other parts:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt3 -Colourful model to smooth textures

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:31:00 GMT

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt2 - Blocky model to colourful model

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:09:00 GMT

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt1 - Blank paper to blocky outline

Mike Ormond — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:00 GMT

Live Framework SDK, Sharing Data

Mike Taulty — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:42:00 GMT

Following up on a previous screencast where we created a MeshObject, here we show how to invite another user to access a MeshObject that we have created in order that data can be synchronised not only across the machines belonging to one user but also out to other invited members of the Mesh.