Mike Ormond's Blog
Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
MIX09 Special Offer - 40% Discount
That's right, there's a 40% discount available for the first 200 registrations using RSVP code...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2008
Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox
I wanted to display the list of search terms at the top of my Twitfeed Silverlight app (see below)...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2008
A Zune phone would be very cool
Rumours of a Zune phone announcement (and denials) abound. You can even see pictures of it on the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2008
MSDN Rich Client event in Manchester now confirmed
Thursday, February 26, 20091:00 PM to 4:30 PMMSDN: Catch Up with Microsoft Rich Client Technologies...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2008
Slideshare slidedecks need a different approach
I've now uploaded the last 12 months or so of slidedecks from our MSDN events to Slideshare. You can...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2008
Oxite - An Open Source ASP.NET MVC CMS
Eric alerted my to this via Twitter and then Marc got in a subtle dig that he'd already blogged...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2008
Slideshare API Upload
I've been experimenting a little with Slideshare as a mechanism to make our slidedecks more broadly...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2008
London Meetup: Cloud Computing, Mesh and Windows Live with Angus Logan, Jeff Hansen and James Senior
Angus, Jeff and James will be in town this week and Steve Lamb is organising an informal get...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Christmas (Present) Crisis
It's the tradition in my wife's family that you send around a gift list for Christmas and birthdays...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Adventures with the Silverlight Viewbox
When I threw together Twitfeed one of the things I wanted to do was to have the "swatches" scale...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2008
Upcoming MSDN Events
Tuesday, February 10, 20099:00 AM to 12:30 PMMSDN: Catch Up with Microsoft Rich Client Technologies...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2008
Last.fm Hack Day 2008
I'll be dropping by the Last.fm Hack Day on Sunday 14th (starts at 10am I believe). There are prizes...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2008
Charging Mobile Devices
Is it invariably true that the most simple of things tend to require the most complex of solution?...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2008
Twitter TwitFeed App
I've made a few improvements to the little Twitter app I built before I went on holiday. You can...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2008
Moonlight Beta 1 - Congrats!
Congratulations to Miguel and team on the first beta release of Moonlight 1.0 (the Linux...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2008
Macs, Viruses and the Gadget Show
Love it or loathe it (and I do both at times), I regularly indulge myself by watching a bit of The...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2008
Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 SP 2 Preview
I see we've announced broader availability of SP2 Beta on the Windows team blog. With immediate...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2008
Five (Big) Things Microsoft Got Right
A recent report from analysts Directions on Microsoft ponders the top 5 things MS got right during...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/02/2008
Website Problems
Apologies if you've been trying to download files or access demos hosted on my website on the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/28/2008
A Fun Little Silverlight Twitter Application
My new boss Marc set us a little challenge to build a simple Silverlight kiosk type application that...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/13/2008
[Demo Code] ASP.NET Dynamic Data Demo
I've just posted the ASP.NET Dynamic Data website I usually build when I do a Dynamic Data demo. You...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2008
Spatial Data and now the Spatial Wiki
A long time ago I came up with a simple web site that allows you to draw features on a Virtual Earth...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
I Didn't Appreciate that TinyURL had an API
When I created my PowerShell script I opted for SnipUrl as it has a nice API that returns a POX...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 4)
No keynote today so straight into the breakout action... TL36 Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Twitter PowerShell Script
Here's the PowerShell script I came up with that I referred to in my previous post that integrates...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
A Bit of an Experiment
I spent a bit of time this afternoon dusting off the PowerShell script I created (that's not...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2008
Windows 7 Developer Guide
If you haven't seen it, the Windows 7 Developer Guide gives a nice summary of what's to come in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2008
Vista Squad Meeting with Jason Zander, GM Visual Studio - 19th November
The next Vista Squad meeting will be held at Microsoft's London office in Victoria on Wednesday 19th...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2008
And Getting ASP.NET Routing Up and Running in Web Applications and on IIS7
Just a quick follow-up to my previous post. To get routing working in a web application project you...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2008
Getting ASP.NET Routing Up and Running - The Definitive Guide
Back here I gave an example of setting up and ASP.NET webforms site to use ASP.NET routing. A few...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2008
MIX 09 Announced
PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2008
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 2)
KYN02 Day Two Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell Better than...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2008
Expression Encoder 2 Sp1 is Out
And includes: Silverlight 2 mediaplayer templates H.264 encoding for devices A/B compare...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2008
Offline Silverlight Applications
I think Scott Guthrie first mentioned the ability to take Silverlight applications offline in his...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/30/2008
Windows Azure Resources
If you watched the PDC 2008 Keynote on Monday you'll have seen the announcement of Windows Azure,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/30/2008
PDC 2008 Session Video Downloads
If you want to watch any of the PDC 2008 sessions, you can simple peruse the session list at:...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2008
Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1
Via Tim Heuer, today we released the Silverlight Tools for VS2008 Sp1 (the version released at the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2008
Silverlight Toolkit - available and well worth checking out
The Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex looks very cool with a long list of new controls:...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
Lots of new ASP.NET bits
Up at https://www.codeplex.com/aspnet Includes: ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2008
[PDC Session Notes] ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
Codeplex becomes an important part of the framework release cycle. Formal releases on...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2008
jQuery Intellisense Annotation Files Available
Now available on jquery.com. Via Bertrand, the design time annotation files for enhanced jQuery...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2008
Loving My New Samsung Omnia
After a couple of years with an M3100 I got an upgrade to a Samsung Omnia i-900 a couple of weeks...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/26/2008
ASP.NET MVC and Scottish Developers (Demo)
Many thanks to everyone who turned out to the Scottish Developers User Group meeting on Thursday and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2008
VBUG Annual Conference 4-5th November @ Microsoft, Reading
Both MikeT and I are speaking at the VBUG Conference this year. I'm doing an Intro to Silverlight 2...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2008