Alice Pang is demonstrating Windows at the following Microsoft Stores: Wednesday, May 30 Mission Viejo, CA Register Wednesday, June 6 Costa Mesa, CA Register Wednesday, June 20 Century City, CA Register

Have any questions about Windows 8 ? Need some guidance on how to get started building a Windows 8 metro style app? Want to see more Windows 8 code samples? Looking for help in taking your application to the next level? Bring your laptop over to the beach...

Part 2: http://aka.ms/PushyNotification No matter what I have said in the past, XNA is going to be around for awhile in the Windows Phone 7.5, so let’s not leave opportunity on the table, open a New Project Windows Phone Game. If you are using...

First of all, you will need to enter a Publisher name in the Properties\WMAppManifest.xml file. Change the Publisher from two quotes to the following (carriage returns added by author), for push to work you must type in a publisher name, make something...

Part 2: http://aka.ms/PushyNotification There a lot of urban definitions for the word “push”, in software “push” is where a dedicated channel is used for sending data TO a mobile application or game from a web service. If you...

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so lazy, but then how can you be a true surfer and work hard at work?  Good thing my boss never reads my blogs, reviews are always a hard time for surf bums as you have to do something every once in awhile.  But I know...

Mech Commander, an interesting idea that I have been carrying around for awhile, unlike the other ideas that I have, would be to rebuild Mech Commander and port it over to Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11.  My main requirements for this exercise is...

MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX and MathML that works in all modern browsers, and what does it have to do with game design ? Umm. Check it out at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/eyal/mathjax/docs/html/mathjax...

Looking for Great Windows 8 Apps, you got one? Make it happen Windows 8 is coming soon. You can download, use it, and even develop apps for it today. At this point in time the Windows Store is not open for everyone to deploy, but we are looking...

Well this was a big duh!  I had installed the most current Kinect SDK v1 and it would not detect the Windows Kinect.  I had uninstalled the Research SDK and thought everything was ready to go.  Then I uninstalled the latest Kinect SDK and...

Oh-oh, it may be true that if you wait long enough everything comes back into fashion.  HTML 5, Javascript/ECMAScript are back in fashion. First you need to have the ability to run a web host on your machine.  If you don’t want to use Visual...