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XAML *Video* Playing Cards
On XAMLshare I just put the source for the video playing cards I showed in my PDC talk and on the Channel 9 video : Put the XAML inside XAMLPad (Beta 1) and qualify the .wmv references with their full path. Enjoy! Tags: PDC , PDC05 Read More...
Posted 16 September 05 10:29 by Adam Nathan | 5 Comments   
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Announcing www.winfxhearts.com!
To correspond with my PDC talk about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista, I've created www.winfxhearts.com . This site has a ClickOnce link that enables you can play a version of my new & improved Internet Hearts game. Here's a "before Read More...
Posted 08 September 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 16 Comments   
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Back to Internet Hearts
Scoble and Ernie Booth stopped by my office today with their camcorder so I could talk about and demo Internet Hearts -- now with the power of WPF! -- for an upcoming Channel 9 video. Look for it during the PDC timeframe. I've been so busy preparing for Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 11:57 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Migrating from VC6 to VC8: Resources
In order to update Internet Hearts with WinFX features , I'm going to leverage C++ Interop and recompile at least some of the source code with /clr so I can start using managed APIs. Therefore, my first step was to get the source code (which hadn't been Read More...
Posted 15 July 05 10:17 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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PDC talk descriptions & the game of Hearts
Today Raymond talks about marketing tweaking PDC talk descriptions and some little-known history on Microsoft Hearts , both of which made me smile since I'm going to be doing a PDC talk primarily based on my Internet Hearts project . Of course, Internet Read More...
Posted 14 July 05 10:04 by Adam Nathan | 0 Comments   
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Internet Hearts: 112,000 Lines of Code
On Monday I asked for guesses on the size of the Internet Hearts source base , and the highest (public) one was 45,000 lines of code. The answer: approximately 112,000 lines of code! 51,000 are client-specific, 35,000 are server-specific, and 26,000 are Read More...
Posted 15 June 05 01:39 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Internet Hearts: Guess the LOC
TechEd made me gain about 5 pounds, and my bag somehow gained 20 pounds. (And I didn't get a single piece of swag from the Product Pavilion, I swear.) But I'm back in Redmond after a 24-hour journey from Orlando to Seattle, due to delays at Chicago O'Hare. Read More...
Posted 13 June 05 12:43 by Adam Nathan | 10 Comments   
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Avalon Beta 1 RC Breaking Changes
Breaking changes are a fact of life when living on the bleeding edge of betas and CTPs, especially for technologies like Avalon and Indigo which haven't officially shipped yet. There have been lots of changes between the March CTP and Beta 1 RC, and there Read More...
Posted 01 June 05 12:29 by Adam Nathan | 8 Comments   
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XAML Playing Cards
Looking at the card games that ship with Windows XP, I think one of the most obvious opportunities for improvement is the look & feel of the playing cards. These games use a shared library known as cards.dll to draw cards that look like... um... this: Read More...
Posted 03 May 05 12:34 by Adam Nathan | 33 Comments   
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Migrating Internet Hearts to WinFX
Last year, Chris Sells wrote a series of articles in which he set out to rewrite Solitaire using Avalon. The lack of scaling graphics in the Win32 version (and lack of access to its source code, I suppose) forced him down the road of rewriting the app Read More...
Posted 02 May 05 11:59 by Adam Nathan | 13 Comments   
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