January 2008 - Posts

LINQ likes iTunes and they are up in the tree!
29 January 08 08:15 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Would you like to have your iTunes lists play on the Zune? Avner Aharoni wrote an application in Visual Basic using LINQ to do just this . If you want to view just the LINQ, you can head over to Code @ MSDN . So why is this possible? Since LINQ can do Read More...

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What should we do for Maker Faire 2008?
25 January 08 12:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

Maker Faire 2008 is coming up fast and Coding4Fun was wondering what we should whip up. Comment or email us . We have some ideas but would love to hear what the community would want us to do. Last year we had : Programmatic Party' with a Disco dance floor Read More...

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Quake 3 in .Net, it was only a manage of time.
24 January 08 11:45 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Greg Dolley has done something amazing. Greg ported id software's video game, Quake 3, to .Net . I'm going to take a quote from his website regarding the port Before I begin explaining the port, I’d like to clarify one thing. Someone emailed me last week Read More...

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Silverlight Dynamic Video Puzzle
22 January 08 11:02 AM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   

My blog title says it all, Monkey see, Monkey Build . I saw Microsoft Surface's video puzzle and I needed to build it. I took this opportunity to play with Microsoft's new technology, Silverlight and build my own puzzle game. I couldn't find anything Read More...

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Computer Hardware, meet Mr. Soldering Iron, now play nicely
21 January 08 11:36 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

There comes a time in every geek's life that makes me proud. The day they pick up their first soldering iron. The reasons vary, such as you broke your USB port on your cell phone and need to replace it . Now if you haven't already learned to solder, Hack-a-day Read More...

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Rock like Animal on your computer
18 January 08 01:03 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Andrew Rudson managed to get his RockBand drums working on his PC and created a sweet 3D interface for it. He has an installer for it and it uses DirectX 9.0c. You can pick sounds and record your finished creation too. I'm personally going to do all cowbells Read More...

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3D WPF to explore Amazon.com
18 January 08 10:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

This is really cool, Sacha Barber has put a neat way to browse Amazon.com by using WPF's ability to do 3D. He has a detailed write up of the application over at Code Project. Sacha even has a video of the interface in action. Read More...

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Visual Basic Don'tcha Knows!
16 January 08 08:45 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB team has a bunch of "Did You Know?" facts about Visual Basic that will help you code faster. Best of all, everything here will work with all the other languages. IntelliSense is all-knowing Make IntelliSense Transpartent (hold Read More...

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I need you to hold on to your photos for a day
14 January 08 01:55 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Caching with web content is a great way to reduce your bandwidth bills and server strain. Karin Huber has written an article on different methods on how to get ASP.Net and IIS to cache content on the client's computer . Karin talks about how to get IIS Read More...

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Beginning Game Development Part X –Direct Sound Part III
07 January 08 12:55 PM | Coding4Fun | 10 Comments   

Welcome to the tenth article on beginning game development. In the last article we manipulated sounds by adding sound effects. Together with the use of 3D Buffers to make the sounds positionaly accurate we now have a fully featured sound system in the Read More...

Laser Tracking Camera
07 January 08 11:35 AM | Coding4Fun | 12 Comments   

In my last article, we saw how a stepper motor could be controlled with a computer by connecting it to its parallel port. This article will extend it to build laser following camera panner, which tracks and turns towards any laser dot in the camera's Read More...

Impersonating the Mouse with a Wiimote
04 January 08 04:30 PM | Coding4Fun | 11 Comments   

Once upon a time ... Nintendo, a game maker, innovates the world game experiences with a totally new concept: get physical (as to prevent you from getting ‘finger/thumb-RSI’). This striking new phenomenon is the nowadays well known Wii game, played with Read More...

Undo, no no, redo it
03 January 08 03:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Ever feel like your getting batted around for undoing and redoing tasks? Over at Code Project, Henrik Jonsson shows how to create in-memory transactions that allow for undo/redo actions . Henrik uses generics, c# 3.0 extention methods and lamda expressions Read More...

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Quick overview of Microsoft Robotic Studios
01 January 08 02:31 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

Dan Waters has created a 5 part webcast series on Microsoft Robotic Studios . Part 4 Here is a brief index of the content. Introduction Getting Started Setting up the Create Serial port communication in VC# Express Teaching the robot to sing More on serial Read More...