November 2006 - Posts

Seriously, I'm working with Excel, Tetris just happened to be there ...
30 November 06 08:45 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Who says business software can't be fun? Wooseok Seo created a port of Tetris in Excel of all things. Frank La Vigne found this peice of gold which dates back from March 2004. By leveraging Visual Studio Tools for Office System , he added Tetris in Excel. Read More...
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Building a WPF Sudoku Game: Part 5 - The AI Battle: Loading and Comparing AI Plug-ins
30 November 06 06:34 AM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
Building Sudoku using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML, Microsoft's new declarative programming language. This is the 5th article from a series of 5 articles and focusses on loading and comparing AI Plug-ins. Lucas Magder Difficulty: Easy Time Read More...
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Building a WPF Sudoku Game: Part 4 - Building a Least Privilege Plug-in System and Even More Custom Controls
30 November 06 06:19 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Building Sudoku using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML, Microsoft's new declarative programming language. This is the 4th article from a series of 5 articles and focusses on building a least privilege plug-in system and some more custom controls. Read More...
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Building a WPF Sudoku Game: Part 3 - Adding Polish and Customizing Controls
30 November 06 06:09 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
Building Sudoku using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML, Microsoft's new declarative programming language. This is the 3rd article from a series of 5 articles and focusses on adding polish and customizing controls. Lucas Magder Difficulty: Easy Read More...
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AJAX just wants to chat with you.
27 November 06 09:08 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Dahan Abdo created a AJAX based chat room in ASP over at Code Project. Dahan example has administrative functions and login validation to prevent the same nickname from logging in. In his example, he limits it to one chat room per website (or virtual Read More...
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Kid’s Programming Language: Christmas Tree Shooter
23 November 06 12:39 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
This article lights on a language called Kids Programming Language (KPL). This is a very easy language and especially made for people which are not the memeber of programers team. It mainly deals with games. Walt Morrison and Jon Schwartz Difficulty: Read More...
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Coding4Fun 2005 Holiday Gift Guide
22 November 06 09:22 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
December 2, 2005 About two months ago Dan Fernandez called me into his office and said, "You need to put together a Coding4Fun Holiday Guide." Okay. While not entirely sure what that meant I figured it would at least involve some sort of gift wish list Read More...
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Countdown to...
23 November 06 12:07 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
This application starts with a fairly simple premise—counting down to a date—then starts adding interesting features. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Read More...
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Flickr-ing about with .NET
22 November 06 11:54 PM | Coding4Fun | 15 Comments   
This blog details about the flickering in .net Sam Judson Wackylabs.Net Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions , FlickrNET API Hardware: Download: Download Everyone who is anyone Read More...
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I need a sailor's knot for this string concatenation
22 November 06 08:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Phil Haack wrote an entry regarding concatenating delimited strings together . He goes on an shows different approaches on how to create a delimiting function along with some of his commets too. Phil goes on to mention .Net 2.0 has a string.Join method Read More...
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Is it done yet? No ... Is it done yet? No ...
21 November 06 10:29 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
If your project is a bit long and has a complex deployment, you may have some way of notifying your team that your build succeeded or failed. Mike Swanson has two methods, one orbital and the other is his laptop. He has hacked an Ambient Orb and his Dell Read More...
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Programming LEGO Mindstorms Robots using the My Namespace
21 November 06 07:27 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
This article walks you through the steps of creating an extension to the Visual Basic My namespace that will allow you to program Lego Mindstorms RCX robots. Note that Microsoft Robotics Studio is now available and is the preferred way to do programming Read More...
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Flying Toasters means it is doing more, right?
20 November 06 03:30 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Via Make , Photozz decided to make his peripherals turn off when his screen saver goes on . He created this with some solid state relays he got off Ebay that he had left over from his Christmas project. He is using software that works off the Printer Read More...
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Collecting Outlook 2007 Statistics Using VSTO 2005 SE
20 November 06 02:08 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
This article demonstrates how you can create an Outlook add-in using VSTO 2005 SE to listen to outlook events, store data about outlook usage, and produce reports on that usage in a custom form and a form region. Kevin Marshall, Clarity Consulting, Inc. Read More...
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Hello World Plugin for Windows Live Writer
19 November 06 04:58 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Scott shows the world how to create a basic plugin for Windows Live Writer. He goes over a pretty easy to understand how-to on adding stuff in for the "Insert" pane in the Live Writer application. You should check it out if you're interested. The following Read More...
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Stone-age Mice
19 November 06 07:40 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Via Make , a computer mouse made of stone . Now that is making some progress toward Caveman - Homosapien relations. Read More...
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I just want to get on the stupid plane ... WHY won't this line move!
17 November 06 12:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Because you forgot to check what your average wait time was online for security check points. Via LifeHacker , the Transportation Security Administration provides a nice tool to determine what you'll wait when visiting the airport to get past check points. Read More...
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Cookie Cutting in Digital Form.
17 November 06 12:41 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
The ASP.Net team has brought up a feature I always forget about. Visual Web Developer has Starter Kits you can download and come prepackaged with the tool. If you haven't seen or used one, they are end-to-end working web site templates that you can use Read More...
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I'm not hurt, I'm adapting
17 November 06 10:56 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Via Engadget , Cornell University released seomthing rather neat today, a robot that adapts to injury . Cornell taught the four legged creature to first learn about itself, then revise that model when damaged. Now only if they could teach my Roomba that Read More...
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Decking Out Your Home Entertainment System with Theater-style Lighting
16 November 06 11:22 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
This article walks through how to get that real movie theater feeling at home using the Intermatic HomeSettings Kit. Chris Walker ControlThink LC Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: $100-$200 Software: None Hardware: Intermatic Home Read More...
From the Coding4Fun Inbox: Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files
15 November 06 05:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
In a recent Coding4Fun email, Coding4Fun reader “G.S.” writes: I have been working on a project (media library), and I was looking for a good article on how to read ID3 tags (for mp3s) in Vb 2005. But I couldn't find any. I was wondering if you could Read More...
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Coding4Fun has a new article! Building a .NET Sidebar Gadget for Vista
15 November 06 01:49 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Here is a new coding article that deminstrates how to build a Windows Sidebar Gadget using .NET. Rohan Singh shows how to create an unread e-mail counter for your computer using Vista beta 2 and Visual Studio Express Read More...
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Who would cross the bridge must answer me these questions three
15 November 06 12:24 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Coding 4 fun has had a few motion detection articles but I think this kid's project went a bit over the top. Since everyone loves their gadgets, I was over at Gizmodo and saw a robotic sentry. After acquiring its target, the sentry then uses an BB gun Read More...
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Scripts so sharp ...
14 November 06 08:20 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
I was glancing at Scott Guthrie's blog and saw he mentioned one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. The project is called Script# and it is written by Nikhil Kothari . Script# So what is it? It is a c# complier that generates JavaScript. He goes Read More...
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MySQL, MySQL, how can I get you play nicely?
13 November 06 12:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
If you've used PHP, you may have had the pleasure of using MySQL , an open-source SQL engine. Jeffery McManus has pointed out a few helper points for problems he has had with the .Net framework and MySQL . The two main points are Dates and unsigned integers Read More...
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Am I a computer? Lets use a Turing Test to be sure.
13 November 06 08:38 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Over at Code Project, Jeff Atwood , posted a rather neat article on a Captcha control . A Captcha is a way to help prove you're a human attempting to do something rather than a computer. There is are a few great articles on Human Interactive Proofs out Read More...
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Wallpaper Cycler
13 November 06 01:16 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
This sample demonstrate simple wallpaper cycler. It expects a folder in which it will find images. Upon startup, it will change the wallpaper, and it will even modify the placement behavior based on the size of the image found. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Read More...
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Non-Destructive Media Edits
13 November 06 01:06 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
This sample allows you to mark out the offensive sections of your media and skip or mute the sections automatically during playback without modifying the actual media file. Uses Windows Media Player 10 SDK. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Read More...
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You Can Take It With You, Part 2
12 November 06 09:49 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
This article is about about mobility in the .NET Framework, specifically about network awareness. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware: Download: Read More...
You Can Take It With You, Part 1
12 November 06 09:38 PM | Coding4Fun | 15 Comments   
This article is about about mobility in the .NET Framework, specifically power awareness. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware: Download: C# Download Read More...
Building a Family History Web Service Client
12 November 06 09:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
This article is basically about Family History Web service using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition In this article a client application is shown which is built as a front end to the Web service. Peter Bernhardt 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Easy Read More...
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Aggregating Syndicated Content
12 November 06 09:42 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
In this article, it is shown how to extend basic RSS user control to work with more than one content feed. Combining syndicated content from various sources, known most simply as aggregation, widens the breadth of information available on the web site Read More...
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Building a Windows Vista Email Gadget using the .NET Framework
10 November 06 11:17 AM | Coding4Fun | 10 Comments   
The E-mail Alert Gadget is a simple yet indispensible Gadget for the Windows Sidebar platform. It provides users with a dynamic unread e-mail counter in the Windows Sidebar. By leveraging the convenience and functionality of Windows Sidebar and the power Read More...
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Entering the Matrix in 5...4...
10 November 06 10:42 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Lifehacker dropped this Microsoft Live Labs released a tech preview of Photosynth . The software analyzes photos of a simular area then reconstructs them into three-dimensional space, flyable environment. Photosynth is a collaboration between Microsoft Read More...
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Upgrade Your Game: Crusader (C#)
09 November 06 09:31 AM | Coding4Fun | 14 Comments   
Welcome to the Upgrade Your Game series of tutorials. In this article, we will develop a role-playing game Crusader!!! The Z-man Andy Dunn The Z Buffer Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Read More...
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Upgrade Your Game: Crusader (Visual Basic)
09 November 06 09:01 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
Welcome to the Upgrade Your Game series of tutorials. In this article, we will develop a role-playing game Crusader!!! The Z-man Andy Dunn The Z Buffer Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part VII –Terrain and Collision Detection
09 November 06 08:56 AM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   
Welcome to the seventh article on beginning game development. In this article, we are going to refine the way the terrain looks and start incorporating it into our game. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Read More...
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A Sports Training, err, XNA Montage Video #1
09 November 06 08:30 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
The engineers over at the XNA team released a 2 minutes and 10 second video showing some really impressive stuff running on both Windows and Xbox 360. The racing game at the end of the video is actually the first 1080p Xbox 360 game shown too. Dave Weller Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain
09 November 06 06:35 AM | Coding4Fun | 11 Comments   
This is Part 6 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. This article covers Lights and Materials and gives a very basic introduction to terrain. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Read More...
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Pac-Man for the Smartphone
09 November 06 06:06 AM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   
The article expains writing a game, Pac-Man for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone platform Bryan Dougherty Bryan Dougherty's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 3-6 hours Cost: $50-$100 Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware: Read More...
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Snail Mail through Web Services?
08 November 06 03:28 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Chris Breisch found a simple wrapper on code project to the USPS Web Tool API . With these tools, one is able to provide address verification, zip code retrieval, package tracking and so on. You can get a USPS ID by using this form . Read More...
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The Rosetta Stone of .Net?
08 November 06 12:04 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
The war of the languages. Some people like c#, others like VB. Yes, there are others like, Ruby, C++, Python, Java, PHP ... but more on the lines of .Net languages, transcoding code examples becomes a bit of a headache. Personally, I have issues reading Read More...
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The earth isn't flat. It is round
08 November 06 07:38 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Lifehacker alerted me that Live can now do 3D maps ! Right now San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, and Seattle are in 3D. What is even cooler is you can use some javascript with the provided API to manipulate the earth. Here is the "hello world" program from Read More...
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My enemy, my foe, is an animal ...
07 November 06 11:40 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
A chap named Hap had a foe, but unlike Carl Spackler , he took a far more technical and cruelty free approach to his varmints (and less TNT). He built a deterrent system that used a motion detector wireless transmitter and a timer delay and would spray Read More...
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Rock iTunes with AJAX
07 November 06 05:59 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Brian Rush has a program over at The Code Project that exposes the iTunes Library via XML (and XLST), ASP.NET, and AJAX . It is written in VB.net and uses the Atlas framework ( which is now called the Microsoft AJAX Library ). It can't stream music yet Read More...
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Visual Studio Express Turns One Year Old Today
07 November 06 04:24 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Today is the one-year anniversary of Visual Studio Express and we're celebrating by giving registered users new benefits and discounts to partner products including Make Magazine, the Make Controller Kit, CareerBuilder, Intermatic Home Automation Gear, Read More...
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SQL Injection Attack 101
07 November 06 07:00 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
For people that really don't have that much database experience, people may not know what this is or why it is deadly. I was reading Larry O'Brien's website and came across this link about injection attacks and figured it is something that should be shared. Read More...
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How many lines are needed for HD?
07 November 06 06:19 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
A lot. 4.7 million lines of code for the HD player to work on an xbox 360 to be exact. I was glancing the news over at Kotaku and they linked to the xbox team's blog . I have to admit, I'm rather shocked at that number but some what jealous. There was Read More...
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Extending the Screen Saver Starter Kit with Microsoft Visual Basic Express
07 November 06 06:54 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Introduction Visual Studio 2005 Express is the most comprehensive and full- featured interactive development environment (IDE) released to date. As part of the product mix, Microsoft has announced a series of Express editions, which make this power available Read More...
XNA in Action
06 November 06 07:24 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
If you haven't checked out some of the amazing things you can do with Microsoft XNA, you should see some of the demo's people have put up on YouTube. Here are some red blood cell (yes, as in your blood) Quad Tree Collision and one of an improved particle Read More...
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Kid's Programming Language: Missile Command!
06 November 06 06:52 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
This article is the last of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, Missile Command! Jon Schwartz and Larry Serflaten Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Kid's Programming Language Read More...
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Building a WPF Sudoku Game, Part 2: The Board UI and Validation
06 November 06 06:46 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
Building Sudoku using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML, Microsoft's new declarative programming language. This is the 2nd article from a series of 5 articles and focusses on creating the Board UI and validations. Lucas Magder Difficulty: Easy Read More...
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Building a WPF Sudoku Game, Part 1: Introduction to WPF and XAML
06 November 06 06:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 10 Comments   
Building Sudoku using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML, Microsoft's new declarative programming language. This is the 1st article from a series of 5 articles and focusses on introducing WPF and XAML. Lucas Magder Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part VIII - DirectSound
06 November 06 06:26 AM | Coding4Fun | 14 Comments   
  In this article, we are going to look at another facet of DirectX, the ability to control sound devices. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Read More...
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Rocket Commander Tutorials
06 November 06 04:17 AM | Coding4Fun | 29 Comments   
Welcome to the Tutorials of Rocket Commander. You will learn step by step in ten 30-minute video tutorials how to develop a game like Rocket Commander. This can be your introduction into the world of game development. Benjamin Nitschke Benjamin Nitschke's Read More...
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Running Visual Studio on OS X
04 November 06 11:24 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
I read this a bit back on slashdot regarding development environments. Jacob runs Visual Studio .NET 2005 with OS X by using Parallels . You can read all about his experience and see what he likes and dislikes about it. He also goes on about one of the Read More...
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XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2 Released!
03 November 06 09:04 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
From both Dan Fernandez and Dave Weller , XNA Gaming Studios Express Beta 2 is released. Why is this really a cool bit of technology? It is free and you can make home brewed games for your xbox 360 even though that feature won't be avaible until the 1.0 Read More...
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Extending the Personal Web Site Starter Kit
03 November 06 06:45 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
This article shows how to work with the foundation of the Personal Web Site Starter Kit and expand upon it for your own personal use. It is rather easy to start incorporating your own features into this simple-to-use starter kit. Bill Evjen Reuters Difficulty: Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part V - Adding Units
03 November 06 03:03 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
This is Part 5 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. This article covers adding of 3D objects to the game using predefined mesh files and implementing some simple culling. Derek Pierson Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part IV - DirectInput
03 November 06 01:51 AM | Coding4Fun | 67 Comments   
This is Part 4 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. This article covers the input device portion of DirectX, called DirectInput. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Intermediate Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part III - DirectX II
03 November 06 01:36 AM | Coding4Fun | 34 Comments   
This is Part 3 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. This article covers more advanced DirectX principles such as transforms, matrices, culling and clipping. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Read More...
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Kid's Programming Language: Asteroids!
03 November 06 12:57 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
This article is the second of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, Asteroids! Jon Schwartz Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: Free Software: Kid's Programming Language Hardware: Download: Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part II - Introduction to DirectX
03 November 06 12:56 AM | Coding4Fun | 75 Comments   
This is Part 2 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. This article covers the basics of DirectX. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Read More...
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Kid's Programming Language: Pong!
03 November 06 12:54 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
This article is first in series of KPL articles.It presents the KPL code that implements the game shown below—Pong! Jon Schwartz Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: Free Software: Kid's Programming Language Hardware: Download: Download Read More...
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Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction
02 November 06 10:51 PM | Coding4Fun | 105 Comments   
This is Part 1 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. Derek Pierson 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Read More...
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Introducing Clint Rutkas, Coding4Fun's New Blogger
02 November 06 07:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
I'm delighted to announce that Clint Rutkas has joined the Coding4Fun family as our dedicated "Newsmaster General"! Regular Coding4Fun readers will remember Clint's That's Totally Disco Coding4Fun article where he built one of our favorite applications, Read More...
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Coding4Fun v2 is Now Up!
01 November 06 01:47 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
After a way too long absence, Coding4Fun is now up with a whole new redesign and infrastructure! The site still has a few bugs that we're working on fixing, but all of our existing content is now moved over. Special thanks to Kent Sharkey our infrastructure Read More...
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That's Totally Disco
01 November 06 01:47 AM | Coding4Fun | 25 Comments   
Set up your a disco dance floor in your home! Clint Rutkas Monkey See, Monkey Build - Usb Controlled Disco Dance Floor Difficulty: Advanced Time Required: Greater than 10 hours Cost: Greater than $200 Software: C# 2005 Express Edition , .NET Framework Read More...
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The Shattering Screen Saver
01 November 06 01:49 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
A screen saver that will make the screen break apart and fall to the bottom of the screen. The ZMan Zman's Diary Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 3-6 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions , February 2006 DirectX Read More...
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Persistent Error Messages
01 November 06 01:49 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
A prank that makes the hapless user see a familiar error message box that he/she can't close, and that spawns more and more error messages each time he/she try to close it. Jacqueline Russell Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 3-6 hours Cost: Free Software: Read More...
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Ask the ZMan: A Holiday Screen Saver with DirectX, Part 2
01 November 06 01:48 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
The project is a holiday-themed screen saver called DirectXmas The ZMan ZMan's Diary Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: C# 2005 Express Edition , October 2005 DirectX SDK Hardware: Download: Download Code Download Code Read More...
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Ask the ZMan: A Holiday Screen Saver with DirectX
01 November 06 01:48 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
The project is a holiday-themed screen saver called DirectXmas. The ZMan ZMan's Diary Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: C# 2005 Express Edition , October 2005 DirectX SDK Hardware: Download: Download The Coding4Fun Read More...
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MSN Spaces Photo Booth
01 November 06 01:48 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
An online Photo Booth where you can take photos using your webcam and publish them instantly on your MSN Spaces site! Richard Davis SharpLogic Software Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 3-6 hours Cost: $100-$200 Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Read More...
Dancing4Fun
01 November 06 01:48 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Create your own Dance Machine game modeled after the famous "Dance Dance Revolution" (DDR) game created in 1998 by Konami. Ed Kaim SharpLogic Software Difficulty: Advanced Time Required: 6-10 hours Cost: $100-$200 Software: [ Visual Basic or Visual C# Read More...
Skype Home Automation
01 November 06 01:47 AM | Coding4Fun | 11 Comments   
Set up your own remote home automation system - read the temperature of your house, find out what song is playing on your home system and control the volume, all through instant message commands. Richard Davis SharpLogic Software Difficulty: Intermediate Read More...
Ask the ZMan: A Holiday Screen Saver with DirectX, Part 3
01 November 06 01:47 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
The project is a holiday-themed screen saver called DirectXmas. The ZMan ZMan's Diary Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: C# 2005 Express Edition , October 2005 DirectX SDK Hardware: Download: Download Code Download Read More...
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