Paul Tallett's Web Log

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 started Read More...

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 not Read More...

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 of 2560x1600 Read More...

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, Paul Read More...