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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Big Day For Silverlight
It's seemed like a long time in coming but Silverlight 2 releases today. The following sites are...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/14/2008
IE8 Beta 2 and XDomainRequest (XDR)
If anyone else is struggling trying to get XDR working on IE8 Beta 2 (as I have been) note that the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2008
Sql Server 2008 Geospatial Data Generator Updated (well, fixed I suppose, if you want to be pedantic about it)
Thanks to Will Thompson, a Business Intelligence Technical Specialist at Microsoft UK, for pointing...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2008
VS2008 Sp1 Event Resources
Eric and I have published the full set of resources links from yesterday's event on What's New in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/03/2008
Things that are sent to try us
I spent many frustrating hours yesterday trying to get 2 demos to work for today's Visual Studio...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/02/2008
jQuery to ship with Visual Studio
I posted a little while back about how much I liked jQuery so I was excited (not to mention...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/29/2008
Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Available
We've released RC0 of Silverlight 2. This is intended as a developer only release - neither the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2008
Silverlight - Databinding Images to URIs
Mike's already blogged about this one so I'll simply highlight his post. I was building a simple...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2008
Dynamic Data and Entity Framework
It's been a bit quiet around here recently. I picked up some sort of chest infection, was confined...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2008
IE8 Beta 2 Links
Just gathering these together in one place before I go ahead and install myself... Windows Internet...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2008
MultiScaleTileSource Demo Source Code
I've published the demo source for my Deep Zoom, MultiScaleTileSource and the Mandelbrot Set post to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/23/2008
More on Dynamically Loading ListView Templates
I got quite a few comments on my post on Dynamically Loading ListView Templates so rather than...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2008
Deep Zoom, MultiScaleTileSource and the Mandelbrot Set
There are some changes to Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 including a new XML based file format...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2008
LINQ to JSON
One of the new features you'll see described (or mentioned) in various places about Silverlight 2...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/21/2008
Photosynth
Has just launched https://photosynth.net/Default.aspx. I know the technology's cool and the results...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/21/2008
Hurrah! Just Passed MCP Exam 70-562
I must admit I'm pretty relieved as I would have suffered a bit of a ribbing in the office had I not...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/14/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Install
As you probably know by now, we've released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and the .NET Framework...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2008
Wireless Networking - My Faith Hath Been Restored
I was at the end of my tether with wireless. I've been rebooting my router pretty much hourly for...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/08/2008
Join Us in Brighton for ReMix UK 08
If you haven't already done so, go take a browse at the agenda for ReMix UK, now published on the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2008
Even More on Securing Entities in ASP.NET Dynamic Data
I should mention (as I failed to do so in my last post) that some of the information (in particular...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2008
More on Securing Entities in ASP.NET Dynamic Data
In the last post I talked about how to expose or hide specific tables in ASP.NET Dynamic Data. What...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2008
Securing Entities in ASP.NET Dynamic Data
This first post is about controlling which tables get exposed through Dynamic Data. It's important...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2008
Am I the only person never to have owned a ZX Spectrum?
Richard Costall and Pete McGann (sorry, no link) of NxtGenUG have just released a beta version of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2008
Selective Filtering in ASP.NET
I've been trying to help out a colleague, Bruce (I use the word colleague but Bruce is several rungs...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2008
Dynamically Loading ListView Templates
I received an email question recently from a customer asking how they could dynamically load the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2008
Will the real Windows Vista please stand up?
Undoubtedly, damage was done to Vista's reputation in the early days after launch. And inevitably...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2008
Getting Twitter Updates On My Blog
Yes, I have started Twittering or Tweeting or whatever you call it (you can see my Tweets here) and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2008
Virtual Earth - Finding Multiple Locations
Of course, once you've found one postcode, you find yourself a reason to find lots of them as Ashley...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/22/2008
Upcoming Events
I've just been going through my diary to make sure everything is up to date and thought it might be...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/22/2008
Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode
I'm a big fan of Virtual Earth and often try and sneak it into demos as many people seem unaware of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/21/2008
Diffing Open XML Files
I don't do so much with Open XML these days but I still get a few questions from people and I'm...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/17/2008
Twittering
I am on the verge of Twittering. I still don't get it and the more "I just swatted a fly"...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/16/2008
ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap
In case you haven't seen it, we've published our roadmap for ASP.NET AJAX on Codeplex and there's an...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/15/2008
Speed Bonnie Boat...
A few things I've learned over the last 10 days or so... Skye is an amazingly beautiful place It's a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/15/2008
Line Rider on Silverlight
It's funny (almost a little spooky) that only last week I was talking to MikeT about Line Rider and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2008
Adding Dynamic Data to Existing ASP.NET Sites
I posted back in May about the ability to combine standard ASP.NET webforms pages and ASP.NET...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2008
ASP.NET AJAX ScriptReferenceProfiler
I'm not sure how I missed this but we've shipped a ScriptReferenceProfiler control on CodePlex...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/26/2008
Securing Against SQL Injection
Anything that can be done to make it easier to build more secure applications has to be a good...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/25/2008
Is there a name for this search phenomenon?
[Scenario] You type some search term into a search engine in the hope of finding more information....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/24/2008
ReMix UK 08 Tickets - Akin to Dromedary Pretzels
ie get them while they're hot. Following on from the massive success of last year's Mix 07, the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/23/2008
BBC mashed 08 Event
I was at the BBC's mashed 08 event on Saturday at Alexandra Palace (I've never been to Ally Pally...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/23/2008
ASP.NET Routing and Authorization
I got a great question on Tuesday night at the .NET Developer Network where I was talking about some...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2008
Word 2007, Content Controls, Databinding and Schema Validation
I've been trying to help someone out recently who'd built themselves a nice little add-in for Word...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2008
PowerTools for Open XML
Eric's blogged about a new open source initiative on CodePlex for processing Open XML documents...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2008
Testing My Cropper Screen Capture Utility
Today has not been a great day. Back here I talked about trying to improve my workflow for getting...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2008