April 2008 - Posts

Scrape that screen with LINQ
29 April 08 03:27 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Beth Massi has done something I know some of you C4F readers have been asking for.  Beth developed a quick and easy way to query a web site with LINQ to XML .  One of the commenter pointed out also you can do a HTML to XHTML conversion with Read More...

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Teaching blog software new tricks
28 April 08 07:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

I'm a massive fan of Microsoft Live Writer when it comes to writing blogs. Why you might ask? Because it works with tons of blog engines. The MSDN blogs are done with Community Server while others have personal blogs that range from SubText , WordPress Read More...

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My robot can totally beat up your robot
25 April 08 01:54 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Microsoft launched a new contest called RoboChamp which is a simulated robotics competition.  By using Robotics Developer Studio 2008, you have the ability to write code or use an xbox 360 controller. If you need some help getting started, RoboChamps Read More...

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LINQ, then what happened?
24 April 08 11:55 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Kevin Hoffman sent in an email regarding a flippin sweet project on CodePlex called CLINQ.  It stands for continuous LINQ and is a .Net 3.5 extention.  As changes occur in the source of your query, the result set is continuously re-evaluated Read More...

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FFmpeg to transcode
16 April 08 03:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Ever have a video file that you want to play in Silverlight or Flash but couldn't get it to play?  Fear not!  Arinhere on Code Project has done a release showing just how to do transcoding using FFMPEG in VB.Net .  Another individual made Read More...

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Webcam Based Laser Tracking for Human-Computer Interaction
10 April 08 05:47 PM | Coding4Fun | 42 Comments   

  In this article, we will put together a program which will allow us to move the mouse cursor on our computers with a laser pointer, and even generate mouse clicks using only a webcam for computer vision. One really cool use of this would be with Read More...

Deepzoom application in 15 minutes
09 April 08 12:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Dan Waters has created a quick Deepzoom tutorial.  Here is his DeepZoom application in a working environment .  If you want access to his source code, check out the full post . Read More...

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Capturing that darn webcam stream
06 April 08 11:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Ever wanted to do capture a webcam data stream and save it to a WMV file?  The UberDemo blog over at the MSDN blogs shows you how to accomplish just this .  They had to create a Cirque du Soleil demo for MIX '08 and shows the basics on how to Read More...

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Burn baby burn
02 April 08 11:24 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Over at Code Project, Eric Haddan created a very nice API to burn CDs and DVDs .  He uses the IMAPI v2.0 to be able to do this complex ability.  Eric talks about some of the issues he had to accomplish this with .Net along with how he solved Read More...

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