Sebastien St-Laurent's (AKA Sebby) WebLog

So, E3 Expo is comming up in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately, I don't get to go myself as I just have too much work to get done. However, Microsoft will have a big presence there and Flight Sim will have a nice presence also. Several of our crew will be...

Scott Guthrie takes a quick peek at Visual NDepend and mentions Practical .NET2 and C#2 . Here is the link (and i've also copy/pasted the article below). http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/22/443627.aspx --- Analyze .NET assemblies...

I have received some interesting questions about our export process and some of the changes in there. Thought it would be a good idea to answer these questions as a blog posts as some of the answers could be relevant (and informative) to several other...

I had several requests from various readers for en eBook version of Paradoxal Press titles for both " The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide " and " Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 " and unfortunately we don't CURRENTLY offer them. There are a few reasons behind...

Redmon, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — At this weekend's Maker Faire , Microsoft Corp. will display how a variety of innovative companies are using its now-free Visual Studio® 2005 Express editions to bring the power of code to the growing community of 18 million...

Contract electronics manufacturing firm Winstron Corp has announced that it aims to boost its production of Xbox 360 consoles to 1 million units a month by the end of the year in order to meet Microsoft's requirements. The Taiwanese firm, which also produces...

If you looked at the XML file posted in my previous post, you may have noticed an interesting tidbit inside the definition for the " c_tire_blurred_key " model information. This is the <Visibility> tag which seems to contain some sim-related paramerers...

This is interesting as I do now use some Ajax code on ParadoxalPress.com. Currently I only use the MagicAjax library but plan on switching to Atlas once it gets closer to be released... --- The "Atlas" Control Toolkit is a set of nine great...

Codejunkies will soon offer a little shim that slips between the 360 hard drive and 360. This shim lets users back up their data from their hard drive to a PC to save their content. For $40 this isn't too bad of a deal, I am suspicious that my Oblivion...

It has been quite a while since I have posted any kind of general update into my Self-Publishing and general publishing efforts. With all the has been going on, I think it is as good of a time as ever to post a general update. Practical .NET2 and...

Microsoft's releasing the full text of Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers for free here . Despite its title, this in an intermediate-level book intended to get programmers in other languages up to speed on VB.NET. From the site: ...

Part 2 - Animation Basics, tools and ModelDef.XML Below is a stripped down extract from the ModelDef.Xml file we use. You will notice that some of the content is very similar to what you may have seen in MakeMdl.Parts.Xml but in a more formal XML form...

Looks like Best Buy got a new batch of 360's at least for their online store... Seems that the increased production is starting to show as the "in-stock" frequency has been increasing. Good news for everyone who has been holding off :) Microsoft Xbox...

Some of you may wonder about the new Paradoxal Press online book store. Does this mean that I am moving from publisher to retailer? Hell No! The idea behind the online book store is to provide added value to our customers. Why only buy our books...

The ACES group here at Microsoft, you know, the guys who brought you Flight Simulator :), are in a hiring spree. Check out our current listings here... http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/results.aspx?FromCP=Y&JobCategoryCodeID=10041&JobLocationCodeID...

The following article is excerpted from the book Practical .NET2 and C#2 . C# Generics Without any doubt, generics is the flagship functionality in .NET 2 from the language's perspective. After explaining what generics are, we will examine the implication...

The following features have changed in the April 2006 DirectX SDK update: Direct3D 10 Technology Preview The Direct3D 10 Technology Preview showcases the newest set of graphics API's for games and other high-performance multimedia applications on...

This is a reminder about the EasyRegex beta. Give it a try, and most especially, give me feedback to make this software the best RegEx tool out there! J Build regular expression libraries easily and seamlesly. Test those expressions against various...

I had several requests from various readers for en eBook version of Paradoxal Press titles for both " The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide " and " Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 " and unfortunately we don't CURRENTLY offer them. There are a few reasons behind...

This is a quick post to let you all know that I have just released EasyBarcode Version 1.2. The main change in this release is the added support for additional output formats which include GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG, TGA, WMF and EMF. EasyBarcode is a little...

The following article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of the book Practical .NET2 and C#2 . Introduction The System.Threading.Monitor class allows you to make almost any portion of your code executable by only one thread at a time. We call such a block...

An Interview with Shawn Firminger,ACES Studio Manager for Microsoft Flight Simulator X FYI - As a result of an interview with ACES Studio Manager Shawn Firminger, FlightSim.com includes an article that highlights “Flight Simulator X”. Firminger states...

Part 1 - Overview and New Features Over the next few weeks, I will be making several posts in regards to the new animation system within Flight Simulator X. Although the content will be somewhat technical and is probably more directed at 3rd party...

Hey look! Flight Sim running on a Mac?!?! From Nick Whittome’s blog ( http://msmvps.com/blogs/thenakedmvp/archive/2006/04/05/89438.aspx ) Well actually, Flight Sim wunning on Windows XP running on a Mac :)

Is Amazon Biased Against Small Publishers? Seems that dealing with Amazon is hard, or near impossible. I myself do not know if this is the standard with them but as a small publisher, it is near impossible to reach a human being there. I have had several...