February 2008 - Posts

Robots with MSRS saving life
27 February 08 11:42 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

RobotTurk is a system that was developed with the Istanbul Municipality and Microsoft that helps provide live video to disaster struck regions.  Using unmanned aerial helicopters equipped with an eBox computer running Microsoft Robotic Studio, one Read More...

Tetris in Visual Basic
25 February 08 11:06 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

Thomas Stockwell created one of my favorite games, Tetris, in Visual Basic with a multiplayer aspect to it .  Thomas talks about collision detection, animations, what happens when a line is completed, along with a few other points. I think this would Read More...

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Twitterlight: A Silverlight Twitter client
24 February 08 02:03 PM | Coding4Fun | 36 Comments   

Twitter, using simple SMS length messages, has changed how people stay connected.  Here's how to build a Silverlight web client to access the Twitter API and display your tweets in a layout of your choosing.  The Twitterlight code provides a Read More...

Wii, Wpf, and Binding
21 February 08 07:58 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Having done minimal WPF work myself due to lack of time, I found an interesting thing on Rudi Grobler's post regarding the Wiimote and WPF . Rudi points out that with WPF, you can bind by implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface.  When a Read More...

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Play my game on Live or on your Zune!
20 February 08 10:33 PM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

Xbox LIVE Community Games Ever wonder how you can get your game published?  Didn't make the Dream, Build, Play finalists last year (It is starting up again for this year!) but still want your friends to play it?  Don't worry, the XNA and Xbox Read More...

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DreamSpark, Software for students for free ... seriously
19 February 08 04:22 PM | Coding4Fun | 10 Comments   

Are you student in need of some Microsoft software?  Still in high school or your college doesn't have access to MSDNAA?  Don't worry since Microsoft just launched DreamSpark over on Channel 8 . So what is DreamSpark exactly?  It is a student Read More...

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Scraping your screen for data
18 February 08 12:21 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

We've been asked a few times to create a screen scraper, however, the ASP.Net Library site has created a way of screen scraping .  They parse the HTML and find the tables in it and directly convert those to Data Sets for your program to consume. Read More...

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Bubbl.aculo.us with Lego
15 February 08 11:40 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

One of my biggest problems when getting bubble gum are the white ones.  I hate them.  Thanks to Bubkas, this isn't a problem anymore since they created a Lego NXT bubble gum sorter.  I wonder what the big O notation is for this bubble sort? Read More...

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Create your own Hogwart's
12 February 08 08:37 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Would you like to create your own wizard extremely easily? Dan Fernandez, over at Channel 9, has his weekly show and I found something extremely cool and useful. On Code Project, Manish Ranjan Kumar has created a wizard control . Well, what makes this Read More...

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Wii Drum Kit
11 February 08 10:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

Here at Coding4Fun, we love the WiiMote and we've found yet another cool wiimote application using Brian Peek's wiimote wrapper. This is not a label created a Wiimote drum kit project and it is pretty neat.  They've posted the source code too. Read More...

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.Net source mass downloader
07 February 08 07:45 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

On 1/16/08, Microsoft announced the ability to download some of the .NET Framework source code for debugging . This download process was only supported inside of a properly configured Visual Studio 2008. 21 Days Later, Kerem Kusmezer and John Robbins Read More...

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XNA Guitar Hero
05 February 08 11:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   

Dan Waters has created an tutorial about how to create a XNA video game from scratch .  I'm not talking just source, he talks about creating 3D models, texturing, creating audio, and more.  Dan has 12 chapters all with videos and provides the Read More...

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