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The passing of one book and the birth of another
It's official... I got a letter informing me that .NET and COM , almost four years after its release, is out of print. Of course, it still lives on in PDF form . Like Luke , I've sometimes been baffled by the apparent lack of supply. I've been told many Read More...
Posted 12 December 05 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Light up on Windows Vista: The "Top 10" List
PDC attendees got a "top 10" poster, but the details are now live on MSDN: " 10 things you can do to make your application shine when it runs on Windows Vista ." They are, in no particular order: 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich Read More...
Posted 12 September 05 10:42 by Adam Nathan | 9 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 | 19 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 | 5 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 | 14 Comments   
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