The slides and example source code of the session “How to develop a game for Phone 7, Xbox 360 and PC” at the GeekNight 2011 can be found at the end of this blog post. Unfortunately no video was recorded of my session. Hoe ontwikkel...

Boooooom! It’s the sound of a big explosion. Now that’s how you kill a monster! While collecting precious stones, you need to defeat the monsters in the Forest, Desert, Winter and Lava levels. Clear a path by blowing the lighter colored stones...

WebsiteSpark is a new global program, designed by Microsoft to help small professional Web development and design service companies succeed, by providing new business opportunities through connections with global partners and customers, support and training...

Native VHD boot enables a physical machine to be booted directly from a virtual hard disk (VHD) with no requirement for virtualization software (such as Microsoft Virtual PC or Hyper-V). Native VHD boot is made possible with the addition of a new mini...

Windows 7 has native support for VHD mounting (and booting). In my earlier blog post about VHD mounting under Vista you needed vhdmout.exe from Virtual Server. In Windows 7 you can use Disk Management and/or diskpart to mount VHD’s native! You can...

Windows 7 is smart about windows. Dragging a window to the top of the computer screen maximizes it automatically. Dragging a window to the left or right side of the screen resizes it for side-by-side comparisons to other windows. And moving the mouse...

[ for Windows 7 read this post ] In my daily work I use a lot of Virtual PC images (VHD) so my host Vista system will stay clean of beta and test software. To get to the files I stored inside a Virtual PC images I normally start the Virtual PC and...

Writing a blog is now so easy! I use Windows Live Writer to post my messages. You can download it at http://www.windowslive.com/

Silverlight is Microsoft’s next generation rich media platform for the Web. Using Silverlight you can deliver Rich Interactive Applications (RIA) to any platform like Linux, Windows, Mac and more. In this post I will explain how to make a simple video...

If you are creating a Setup Project in Visual Studio 2008 (or VS2005) to deploy your amazing new application, you need to set which version of the .NET Framework you are targeting. If your application is developed for .NET 2.0 you need to tell the Setup...

Ever wondered how to change the behavior of the power button in your start menu in Windows Vista? Normally if you press the power button in your start menu the computer will go to sleep and not shutdown complete. How to change: Control Panel >...

The British Library is using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) for presenting 15 of their most precious books virtually in your web browser. This preview version of Turning the Pages 2.0 allows you to 'virtually' turn the pages of their most precious...

Photosynth is a new technology from Microsoft labs to see and navigate in a 3D world of standard photos in your web browser. Space World is a joint project between NASA, Microsoft and MSNBC and it is using Photosynth to create amazing three-dimensional...

Welcome to my new blog site at MSDN, my name is Clemens Schotte and I’m consultant for Microsoft Services in the Netherlands. On this blog I will post software related articles about .NET and software development in general. Have a nice time reading my...