March 2007 - Posts

UK Imagine Cup 2007
31 March 07 12:13 AM
The local Imagine Cup software design finals are over once again. I was lucky enough to be involved, this year in a much more relaxed capacity doing "demo dolly" with my team mates showing the latest and greatest in developer tools and platforms, and Read More...
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Workaround for Visual Studio 'Orcas' March CTP and Blend not playing together
29 March 07 01:00 PM
I've had a couple of email exchanges with customers who are playing with Visual Studio Orcas and Expression Blend and facing challenges with incomaptibilities. The problems arise when trying to open Blend created projects in Orcas and Blend not being Read More...
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Bootcamp 1.2 released
29 March 07 12:47 PM
...just after I installed 1.1.2 on my Macbook Pro. Very annoying but good to see that it now supports Vista out of the box. The detail on what's new: Support for Windows Vista (32-bit) Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime Read More...
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Podcast software and kit - what do I need?
28 March 07 10:20 AM
Our team are toying with the idea of doing a podcast about 'stuff' on 'stuff' that interests developers in the UK. I've done a little searching around but haven't really found the definitive list of hardware/software to start a podcast. We want to do Read More...
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It's me..at the MSDN roadshow
27 March 07 05:11 PM
I get the Parry photography experience... (I'm the dot at the front looking at the camera, everyone else is looking at me...or asleep :-)) MSDN Roadshow 2007 Comes Home Technorati tags: martin parry , mark johnston , msdn roadshow Read More...
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Using a Downloader object with MediaElement in WPF/E
26 March 07 04:04 PM
A 70 meg video isn't the nicest thing to download and have no feedback from the UI when you are looking at my WPF/E video player so I changed the code to use a Downloader object. // Create downloader object var control = sender.getHost(); var downloader Read More...
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Softies on Rails
26 March 07 03:26 PM
Just spotted on Frank's blog that a bunch of AUS Microsoft people attended a conference and bought drinks. Maybe the UK team should follow suit...but who has the better beer?! ;-) The interesting thing for me was the link to Softies on Rails , which is Read More...
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Camtasia with Vista support now released
26 March 07 09:30 AM
I posted back in November about Camtasia and Vista RTM not being the best of friends and Techsmith working on beta releases to fix it. Well, thanks to the wonders of the blogosphere, Betsy at Techsmith dropped me a mail to let me know that they have just Read More...
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Updated my WPF/E Video Player
23 March 07 05:09 PM
I've been messing around with my WPF/E video player and adding more functionality. You can look at my introductory tutorial here but have started to implement more features such as Play/Pause, a progress bar, mute and a timer (volume slider isn't there Read More...
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Hosting WPF/E code on an ISP - adding content types
23 March 07 05:00 PM
Due to the limitations of hosting my blog on the mammoth blogs.msdn.com and wanting to write WPF/E demos that I could show other people, I got myself some hosting space with www.discountasp.net It does everything that you would expect an ASP.NET hoster Read More...
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Building a simple video player with WPF/E tutorial
19 March 07 02:28 PM
I haven't had much original content on here in a while so I thought that should change by putting up some short tutorials on building stuff using "WPF/E". And the obvious one to start with is a really simple video player (RSVP for short). For an introduction Read More...
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Example of WPF/E and ASP.NET Ajax working together
15 March 07 08:51 PM
During today's MSDN event in London I showed to two audiences this really great example of integrating ASP.NET Ajax and WPF/E: It integrates ASP.NET, Ajax, WPF/E and Web Services to provide a very compelling way of viewing albums brought down from Amazon's Read More...
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Expression Blend Release Candidate now available
14 March 07 10:19 AM
Just noticed on the Expression site that there is an RC available. Downloading it now and will have a play but it's getting really close to production quality as I haven't had any show stoppers or niggling quirks in a while. Download Expression Blend Read More...
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Some WPF/E examples for those that attended the MSDN event in Reading last week
12 March 07 10:18 AM
During the event Jon Harris and I delivered on Expression and designing great user experiences (I had the easy job of being the dev :-)), I introduced and demoed some "WPF/E" examples that are available today on the web and my own coding example. I had Read More...
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