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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Installing VS2008 SP1 Beta 1
I'd been holding off installing VS2008 SP1 Beta 1 as I was waiting for the Silverlight 2 support...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/11/2008
TechEd EMEA 2008
TechEd EMEA Developers registration is open and there's a "super early bird" offer if you...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/11/2008
Open XML SDK v1 Available From Today
Later today you'll be able to download the Open XML SDK v1 (currently the April CTP - make sure it's...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Release - New Videos!
Following the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 on Friday, Mike and I have updated our Silverlight 2...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/09/2008
Image Capture and Auto-Resize With Cropper
Having talked about the pain of capturing image snapshots, someone mentioned Cropper and its plug-in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2008
URLs for your Silverlight Streaming Videos
Trying to upload and use videos in Silverlight Streaming in your Silverlight application used to be...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/05/2008
Capturing Image Snapshots
Tim Heuer's post on SnagIt and PNGOut got me thinking about my own convoluted snapshot process (and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2008
I got a nasty shock when...
...I searched for "mike ormond" on Technorati and this came back: I know I hit a birthday...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2008
Computer Arts Projects - Deep Zoom Composer
I've recently written a piece on using Deep Zoom Composer to put a portfolio online for Computer...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2008
100% Height in Firefox
It's well documented I know but I just ran across this using Deep Zoom Composer and thought I'd...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
Bit slow on this having just got back from holiday but Scott has blogged about the latest...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/30/2008
SQL Spatial Data Visualiser Updates
I've updated the page I posted yesterday so the app now supports POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/30/2008
SQL Spatial Data Visualiser
Hot on the heels of my Sql Spatial Data Generator comes my Sql Spatial Data Visualiser! Well, sort...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/29/2008
PDC 2008 Registration Open
October 27-30th in the Los Angeles Conference Center, LA is where you want to be. Registration for...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/28/2008
More on ASP.NET Routing
While I've been sunning myself on a Greek Island (Kefalonia - very nice, especially the baclava),...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/28/2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
You'll know by now that we've shipped the first beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 Sp 1 and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2008
Off on holiday for a week or so
Normal service (if there is such a thing) will be resumed as soon as possible (around 21st May I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2008
Using ASP.NET Routing Independent of MVC
One of the demos I've been doing at the MSDN Roadshow is to take the new ASP.NET routing...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2008
MSDN Flash Article: ASP.NET Silverlight Server Controls
In the next issue of the MSDN Flash Newsletter I write about some of the upcoming features in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/12/2008
Dynamic Data and MVC in Perfect Harmonee
In my roadshow session I talk about where to get all the latest ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions bits. One...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/08/2008
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview - Mixing with "Static" Pages
The ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview is essentially a powerful and flexible scaffolding framework for...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/07/2008
MVC Framework - Encapsulating for Re-use
ASP.NET webforms offers a number of different options for re-use including extending existing...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2008
ASP.NEXT
We kicked off our latest MSDN Roadshow tour with a first gig in Cardiff Bay on Monday. Next in the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/23/2008
Zip File Extension Association in Vista (again)
A long time ago, I wrote about my self-inflicted woes when I accidentally associated winword.exe as...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2008
Calling Sys.Application.notifyScriptLoaded
Just noticed this: "Do not call the notifyScriptLoaded method from scripts that are embedded in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/14/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls - Further Reading
I intended to cite references in an earlier post so apologies if this seems like a bit of an...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/11/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 8 - Embedding Resources)
Links to the other posts in this series In Part 7 we looked at how to wrap our client components...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/08/2008
It's Always Nice To Be Back In Glasgow
Thanks to Scottish Developers for inviting me to talk at their event last night. I think the Rangers...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/04/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 7 - Server control implementation)
Links to the other posts in this series This really is turning into a bit of a marathon - sorry...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/02/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 6 - Moving things to the server)
Links to the other posts in this series In Part 3 we pretty much had the skeleton of a working...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/02/2008
The End Of The War But When Will The Fighting Stop?
From Brian Jones blog: Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2008
Developer Day Scotland - 10th May 2008
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Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls Index Post
As requested, it's probably easiest to create and maintain an index post and link to that from all...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 5 - The bits I didn't get to in the last post)
Links to the other posts in this series NB I introduced an error in Pt 3 which I have since...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 4 - Hold on, aren't you forgetting some things?)
Links to the other posts in this series So just before we get ahead of ourselves and build or fresh...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2008
Hotels I'd Really Like To Stay At
Or "Hotels At Which I'd Really Like to Stay"? You decide. Anyway, having been here I'd...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/27/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 3 - Properties and Events)
Links to the other posts in this series Let's take a quick look at the control I created for the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/27/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 2 - Components)
Links to the other posts in this series In Part 1 I looked at what an ASP.NET AJAX control is and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/26/2008
My Hoster Doesn't Support ASP.NET 3.5
And I'm not happy about it. ASP.NET 3.5 is offered to new customers but not existing customers. When...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/26/2008
Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 1)
Links to the other posts in this series Following on from my post about my DevWeek session, I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2008
UK Launch - Building Web Applications with VS2008 Source Code
Following on from the live demo, here's the demo source I used for my launch session. Download the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2008
UK Launch - Building Web Applications with VS2008 Demo
Thank you to everyone who came along to my session at the launch in Birmingham yesterday - it was...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2008
Intro to Silverlight 2
Mike's posted about his talk at QCon earlier this week which is a great intro to Silverlight 2 with...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/15/2008
Expression Web Beta 2 Beta
I'm feeling a little under the weather today (have been all week - probably something I picked up on...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/14/2008
DevWeek Session - Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls
Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday. I was concerned that I may end up talking to an empty...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/12/2008
Silverlight and SharePoint
I get asked about this a lot and, to date, my answers have been very vague as I simply didn't know...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/12/2008
More on the mouse wheel
Daniel left a comment on my post about mouse wheel support saying he'd managed to get it working in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/10/2008