September and October Update

Here’s a quick roundup of what I’ve been writing about in the last two months.

F#

• LINQ Challenge #1 Answers in F#
• LINQPad Dump for F#
• Recursive Sequence Expressions in F#

NAudio

• Towards a Fluent NAudio API
• Concatenating Sample Providers in NAudio
• NAudio FAKE, WMA, MEF, and VS2015
• NAudio and Windows 10

LINQ / Functional Programming

• Lunchtime LINQ Challenge #2
• Functional Programming Big Ideas for C# Developers

Misc

• How to Cut Sections out of an MP4 File with FFmpeg

July and August Update

My big news from the last two months is that I’ve released a new Pluralsight course – Creating and Selling a Digital Product. I’ve also managed to progress a bit towards the next release of NAudio. Here’s links to the new posts I’ve done in the last few months over at my new blog.

NAudio

• NAudio FAKE, WMA, MEF, and VS2015
• NAudio and Windows 10

Miscellaneous

• Microthoughts on Microservices
• Bootstrap Themed Radio Button Groups with Knockout
• Advertising–How hard can it be?

June Update

June has been a busy month for me. I’m working on a new course for Pluralsight, and you might be able to guess what it’s going to be about from what I’ve been blogging about. As usual, my articles are now hosted over at my new site, so do head over there to keep up with my latest content.

Creating and Selling Digital Product Series

• A tale of two albums
• Does my product idea need to be unique?
• How to generate fresh ideas for your next digital product
• What sort of digital product should you create?
• Why you should create a digital product and sell it online

Azure

• How to Access an Blob Container Using Shared Access Signatures
• How to Get Azure Blob Container Size

Miscellaneous

• JavaScript Gotcha: Closures and Loops
• Surface Pro 3 Review
• Why you need to understand garbage collection

NAudio

• How to play a specific portion of an audio file with NAudio

May Update

Last month saw the release of my new Pluralsight course on MahApps.Metro. You can read a couple of articles I wrote to introduce it and help you get started with MahApps.Metro below, along with a couple of other articles I wrote last month:

• Modernise your WPF Applications with MahApps.Metro
• Track Any Event on your Web Pages with Google Analytics
• Creating Modern WPF Applications with MahApps.Metro
• We’re Hiring

April Update

I’ve already mentioned that I’m no longer blogging here at blogger, and if you’re subscribed you should head over to markheath.net to be kept up to date. Here’s what you’ve missed over the past few weeks. If you want to keep updated with a weekly newsletter of new posts, do sign up for my mailing list.

• Soundslice–Transcription in the Browser
• Skype Voice Changer–50 Customers
• NAudio and GitHub Update

Creating Modern WPF Applications with MahApps.Metro

I’m pleased to announce that my latest Pluralsight course, Creating Modern WPF Applications with MahApps.Metro has been released. MahApps.Metro is one of my favourite open source projects, and if you’re a WPF developer you should definitely check it out. What it offers is a ridiculously quick and easy way to update a plain old WPF application and give it a “modern” metro look and feel. And of course, being open source, it’s completely free.

Not only does it provide updated styles for the vast majority of standard WPF controls, but it ships with a variety of useful additional controls, as well as giving you the choice of several light and dark colour schemes, and access to a great library of useful icons.

I’ve used MahApps.Metro myself on a number of projects, and can’t speak too highly of it. I hope my new course will be of use to the community and help people get up to speed with it quickly. Basically, in the course I take a plain looking WPF application and update it to use the various features of MahApps.Metro. I also show how you can add charts from the Modern UI Charts open source project.

So do head over to Pluralsight and check it out if you’re interested in how to give your WPF applications a fresh lick of paint. If you’re not a subscriber yet, then why not take advantage of their 10 day free trial? There is an amazing library of fantastic content there and I think it’s the best way of quickly getting up to speed on any new technology.

Finally, let me give a big shoutout to Jan Karger and the rest of the MahApps.Metro team, who have just announced version 1.1.2. Thanks for your tireless work creating and maintaining this library.

March Update

I’ve already mentioned that I’m no longer blogging here at blogger, and if you’re subscribed you should head over to markheath.net to be kept up to date. Here’s what you’ve missed over the past few weeks. If you want to keep updated with a weekly newsletter of new posts, do sign up for my mailing list.

NAudio

• How to Schedule a Fade Out using NAudio
• NAudio has a logo
• Announcement: NAudio is moving to GitHub

Skype Voice Changer

• How to call the MailChimp API from C#
• Weeks 4 & 5–Sales Dry Up
• Week 3–Slow and Steady Progress

Misc

• Migrating from Syntax Highlighter to Highlight.js