I've just finished a project to do a music download service (a bit like iTunes) for HMV. HMV are one of the largest music retailers in the UK, with a strong presence in Japan and Canada. It was quite a lot of fun, although very short timescales. We...

I've been working with WPF (Avalon) recently and found some strangeness with the MediaElement control not displaying any video, or displaying a black screen or throwing a COM exception. Turns out you need to update dxva2.dll and evr.dll as they are...

I lashed out on a 30" Dell screen the other day. It is just great, and absolutely enormous! I still have some slight sparkling green dots on the display when showing some images, but I'm working with ATI to get that resolved. The screen has a res...

Hi! I'm Paul Tallett, and I work in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) in the UK. I specialise in UI development, and I'm a UI Dev Lead or Principal Consultant. I thought I needed a Blog to host some tips and tricks as I find them. Cheers...