July 2008 - Posts

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 beta
31 July 08 03:29 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

For those lovers of World of Warcraft, The AddOn studio for Visual Studio v2 beta is now available on CodePlex .  Channel 9 even did an interview with some of the developers. Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Read More...

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Silverlight controlling your workout
28 July 08 01:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Page Brooks created a neat Silverlight application that controls his treadmill .  Page openly admits it is a proof of concept and really lacks a real purpose, but from using some tools, he was able to create a very usable UI with minimal effort. Read More...

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We want you to brag to us!
22 July 08 11:59 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

  Remember when your parents told you not to brag?  Don’t listen to them.  The Coding4Fun team wants you to tell us your story so we can feature you on our site!  PopFly or Visual Studio Express, both work! If you’re interested, send Read More...

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GeoTag, You’re it!
21 July 08 01:21 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Roiy Zysman has an interesting article on GeoTagging images .  With a few quick .Net image functions, Roiy was able to embed the GeoTag properties in. Now if you really want to do GeoTagging and your camera doesn’t support it, I suggest syncing your Read More...

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A terrarium in my computer? I’m more of a city person …
16 July 08 11:30 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Scott Parker alerted me that the Windows SDK team released Terrarium .  Terrarium’s source code can be found over on CodePlex too! So what is Terrarium?  Way back in .Net 1.x land, someone game up with the idea to create a game to get people Read More...

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Radiohead armed with lasers
14 July 08 01:41 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Radiohead did something pretty interesting.  They released their new music video, which was done all in LIDAR.  Their video is, for all intents and purposes, is just pure data! They have all the data for you to play with over at http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ Read More...

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2-3-2 combo
11 July 08 05:08 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

I love Minesweeper.  CouchPotato99 does too, so much so they created a Zune Minesweeper game!  Currently on version 2.1 , Potato gives out full source code over at CodePlex . And if you’re really hardcore about minesweeper, why not view the Read More...

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Fact 2053: Control click will highlight an entire word in VS
10 July 08 02:16 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Sara Ford over at blogs.msdn.com has an amazing stream of tips and tricks with Visual Studio .  She currently is on 256!  A bunch of these tid bits about VS I had no clue were even in it! One of my favorite tricks that most I’ve talked to aren’t Read More...

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DeepZooming different layouts
08 July 08 11:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Wilfred Pinto has a great demo of how to do Deep Zoom with 2 different render layouts .  Wilfred’s demo shows how to do a multi-row then a single row layout based on the images height. Wilfred even highlights what code is required to do the tasks Read More...

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Dundies for everyone!
02 July 08 08:54 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

One of Coding4Fun’s favorite contributor, Arian Kulp , was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for Visual C#. Last year another one of our contributors, Brian Peek , won the award. And Brian was awarded again this year! Awesome work guys. And as always, if Read More...

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