Mike Ormond's Blog
Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Deep Zoom Demo now with Mouse Wheel Support
I've updated my Deep Zoom demo to add mouse wheel support for zooming. There is no way to capture...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2008
Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Demo
With inspiration and a bit of help from MikeT, Daniel and Yasser (and John in his comments) I had a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Updated Silverlight ASP.NET Server Controls
You can download the new ASP.NET MVC Preview here. The updated Silverlight ASP.NET controls get...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Accessibility in Silverlight 2
I mentioned in a previous post that there was much improved accessibility in Silverlight 2. There's...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Mix08 Streams and Session Recordings
You can watch the Steve Ballmer keynote live starting about now at https://www.visitmix.com And 25...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Silverlight 2 - Hard Rock Memorabilia
First thing to say - great install experience. I uninstalled Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 Alpha and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Mix08 Session - Building Rich Internet Apps Using Silverlight 2
Sorry - this is very scrappy as I had the most horrendous headache and it's really difficult to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Mix08 Keynote - ScottGu on Silverlight Pt 3
Important point - not everything in WPF is in Silverlight 2 (obviously) but what is there is API...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2008
Mix08 Keynote - ScottGu on Silverlight Pt 2
Controls Variety of controls such as Button, CheckBox etc as well as higher level controls such as...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2008
Mix08 Keynote - ScottGu
Scott talked a bit about some of the new things we'll see at Mix08 MVC Dynamic Data framework...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2008
In the Keynote @ Mix08
In the overflow room at least like the good Microsoft employee that I am. Ray Ozzie has kicked...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2008
Holiday's Over
The Grand Canyon is simply amazing (if a little chilly at this time of year). If you ever get the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2008
Getting on a Jetplane
I'm heading out to Vegas a little early for Mix08 so things will go quiet here until things kick...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/28/2008
Using WPF to help skin your website
Chris Cavanagh has an interesting idea over here. He's built a tool that will take some WPF and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/28/2008
UK MSDN Roadshow Registration Is Now Open
I see the registration pages are up on our events site. We'll be visiting Cardiff, London,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2008
We're Hiring [A UK Developer Evangelist]
Mike has all the details. It's a double-edged sword TBH; great technologies, work with lots of smart...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2008
MSDN Search Gadget
If you use Tim Heuer's MSDN Search Gadget as I do, you'll probably have noticed that it recently...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/25/2008
VSTO Power Tools
If you do any Office development, then you need to check out the VSTO Power Tools v1.0.0.0 which...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2008
Silverlight 2 First Look - Information and Tutorials
Even better than the article I linked to earlier, ScottGu has revealed more details about...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2008
Going to Mix?
I'm lucky enough to have a ticket as Mix08 is now sold out. If you've been at one of the Silverlight...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2008
Silverlight 2
An interesting article on Silverlight 2 that echoes some of the points I've been making in recent...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2008
Serious About Interoperability?
I was asked on Wednesday night if I thought Microsoft was really serious about interoperability....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2008
Silverlight OnFullScreenChange and AddEventListener()
I spent too long this weekend trying to hookup an event handler to the OnFullScreenChange event in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2008
Vista SP1 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
If you have an MSDN Subscription you can now download Vista SP1 from the subscriber downloads...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2008
Updated Source Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer
A long time ago I created a Source Code Formatter Plug-In for Windows Live Writer. Thanks to Tim I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2008
A Little Linq to Sql
Building a little application for capturing real time data, I decided to play around with LINQ a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2008
More Upgrade Questions on SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 to 2008
Q. Can I deploy reports from the 2008 Designers to a Reporting Services 2005 Server? Both Sean...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/12/2008
Upgrade Questions on SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 to 2008
There were a couple of questions asked at last night's slightly chaotic SQL Server event in London...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/08/2008
Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
I'm going to re-plug my Spatial Data Generator for SQL Server 2008 as I've had a lot of very...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2008
Last Night's Event, 'What's new in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 for the Web Developer'
Firstly, here's a link to the slides etc. Thank you to everyone who came along last night and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2008
Yahoo!
Wow. It remains a mystery to me why I'm not consulted on these sorts of decisions? Oh I remember...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2008
Tax ads man says tax too complex
Clearly rattled by my throwing down the gauntlet, Adam Hart-Davis has admitted that he wishes tax...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2008
Fiddler: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
If you use Fiddler and you're running Vista (or IE7 on XP / WS2003), you're probably already aware...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/29/2008
TED Conference Pass on eBay
The biddings gone a shade past my limit :-) - currently at $32,100 - but if nothing else it's worth...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2008
PowerShell and Social Bookmarking
I was messing about with PowerShell the other day (when I ran into my batch rename problems) having...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2008
Nearly time for launch
Yes, launch is almost upon us - Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are all...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2008
Some ASP.NET 3.5 ListView Control Examples
This one goes out to Vicky Smalley who posted a comment about MSDN Event: Microsoft’s Web Platform....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2008
Premium Bonds - The Reply
National Savings and Investments reply (very promptly I must add - kudos for that) to my questions...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/21/2008
Powershell Batch Rename
I keep forcing myself to use PowerShell from time to time as I know it'll pay big dividends if I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2008
LINQPad
Sorry if everyone else knows about this but I was scouring Scott Hanselman's "Tools List"...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/19/2008
And another thing! Premium Bonds
Seeing as I'm on a ranting roll, why is it that if you're lucky enough to win more than one prize in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/19/2008
Office Binary File Format Interoperability
Just noticed some good news earlier this week on Brian Jones blog about new initiatives to make it...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/18/2008