September 2008 - Posts

Scrolling your mouse wheel with Silverlight
25 September 08 03:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

Tim Heuer found an interesting article by Adam Cooper on Silverlight and adding in support for your mouse’s scroll wheel .  To do so, it pretty painless with Adam’s helper class. XAML: < ScrollViewer x:Name ="MyScroller" Width ="300" Read More...

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I’ve always wanted to make a clock in WPF
23 September 08 11:36 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Mohammad Dayyan created a great example of an analog clock in WPF .  It shows how to do a few basics of WPF such as XAML, rotation transforms and using the Dispatcher object to update the user interface. Here is a quick bit of sample code from Mohammad’s Read More...

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Inherited Message Distributing
11 September 08 02:35 PM | Coding4Fun | 14 Comments   

  Given a week off of school I found the time to start designing a system that had been thought up in a school class. The idea was simple, a webapp that lets a user reach the widest possible audience by distributing messages across many mediums. Read More...

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Making a Video game? GameFest 2008 presentations!
11 September 08 12:09 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

The talks from GameFest 2008 are up on MSDN . From Shawn Hargreaves : Among this veritable cornucopia of goodies, you will find two talks from yours truly, Networking, Traffic Jams, and Schrödinger's Cat and Building Worlds with the Content Pipeline . Read More...

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SvcHost, what are you up to?
08 September 08 11:59 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

ShoXDX has created a project on CodePlex in c# to show you what each SvcHost.exe task is executing.  What is the SvcHost exactly?  It is a generic host porcess name for services that run DLLs.  Since multiple Svchost are executed running Read More...

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Oi, Hello, Hola, Hoi, Konnichiwa and Ahoy Mattie!
05 September 08 09:44 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Mads Kristensen, of BlogEngine.Net fame, has a post on getting the language and country from a browser in ASP.Net .  Why is this important?  Well, some sites have something called localization/internationalization and mapping IP addresses to Read More...

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Curves make everything look better
02 September 08 09:43 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Charles Petzold blogged about a rather interesting, while geeky, topic a bit ago about non-affine transforms .  I personally had to look up what that exactly meant, but what it allowed Charles to create create curved slider bars with WPF. Charles Read More...

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