August 2008 - Posts

Zooming in deeper with custom tiles
29 August 08 12:46 PM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

Mike Ormond and Mike Taulty each have an entry on DeepZoom and creating MultiScaleTileSource s for Silverlight 2. Mike Ormond’s example is a Mandelbrot set which is pretty cool.  Wikipedia has an amazing write-up about what exactly a Mandelbrot set Read More...

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Doodles in Silverlight
25 August 08 10:47 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Ever want to do writing recognition on the Internet? Julia Lerman wrote an article for MSDN article that demonstrates how you can use InkPresenter in the .Net framework with Silverlight .  The interesting thing with the InkPresenter is you don’t Read More...

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Your Code Sunk My Battleship!
24 August 08 11:00 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

Clarity Battleship is a multi-player game in which players code the "artificial intelligence" needed to command their fleet to victory on the high seas. The game is built using WPF and WCF. Bryan Dougherty Bryan's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Read More...

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Chat with the experts!
15 August 08 02:30 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Have a hard question about Internet Explorer 8, Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded?  Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Embedded Devices Group members and the IE product team? If so, please join us for a live chat Read More...

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Stall Status: Know before you go
13 August 08 11:03 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

  Stall Status is a Silverlight-based Vista Sidebar Gadget that uses the Z-Wave wireless protocol and door sensors to notify you of the occupied/available state of the bathroom stalls. Jerry Brunning Clarity Consulting, Inc Difficulty: Easy Time Read More...

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Your fly down? Zip it up natively.
11 August 08 11:45 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

Jaime Olivares got sick and tired of having to use the java.util.zip namespace or invoking shell API’s to produce a Zip file.  Jaime decided to create a pure .Net 3.0 / 3.5 class that can create / append to zip file . Here is a quick example on how Read More...

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Making Gravity do your bidding
07 August 08 06:02 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

The nice fellows at BoneSoft have created a neat little program at CodeProject that shows off how to do some pretty physics simulations in c# .  They talk about how they did the calculations. Here is how he does a full calculation loop: foreach (Particle Read More...

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Silverlight, 44 examples to do pretty much everything
05 August 08 03:43 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Mike Taulty did a spectacular collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts.  They range from the standard Hello World to data binding to file IO to threading . Channel 9 has a complete list of all 44 . Read More...

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