May 2009 - Posts

WPF NotifyIcon control!
26 May 09 09:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

If you’ve ever had a WPF application and wanted a notify icon in your system tray, you’ve had to import the System.Windows bits.  This always seemed to me as a hack to get it but at least I could do.  Fear not anymore, Philipp Sumi has created Read More...

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Cropping with ASP.Net
22 May 09 11:54 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Cem Sisman created a ASP.Net image cropping control for the JQuery plugin, Jcrop . Demos: ASP.Net Sample (with IE8, run in compatibility mode) ASP.Net Fixed Ratio (with IE8, run in compatibility mode) Jcrop Preview Thumbnail Jcrop Live Demo Matthew Paulson Read More...

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Rook to bishop, pawn to queen, checkmate
21 May 09 10:25 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Ever wonder how to build a chess game?  Jacques Fournier has built a c# chess game with a built in game import engine. Jacques’s version has the following features: Visual interface Multiple difficulty levels Database of book openings Loading / saving Read More...

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Classic JukeBox
19 May 09 12:09 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Remember the classic arcade style jukeboxes ? Today we will be creating our own jukebox using WPF, WMP, a little bit of 3D, some very basic electronics (costing less than $10 USD) and a splash of M-V-VM Rudi Grobler Difficulty : Intermediate Time Required Read More...

Who made my text circular?
14 May 09 10:36 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Ever see text following a path and wonder how they did that?  Silverzine shows you how to make text that will follow a circular path and rotate . SilverZine uses Expression Blend to accomplish this tutorial.  They talk about how to keyframe Read More...

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Hopping in Silverlight
12 May 09 10:33 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Michael Ceranski has an article over at Code Project about recreating the classic game Frogger in Silverlight . Michael goes in about creating sprites, collision detection, and animation.  He created lanes for the traffic in design time then made Read More...

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Building Multiplayer Texas Holdem Poker For The Zune
05 May 09 12:06 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Have you ever been interested in creating a game that harnesses XNA’s powerful network library to create multiplayer experiences for the Zune device? The Zune firmware version 3.1 brought us a professionally built incarnation of Texas Holdem that supports Read More...

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Glimmering with effects
01 May 09 10:06 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Ever see a website with some amazing effects but no clue how they got them?  Chances are they used a framework like jQuery.  Glimmer is a WPF-based Windows application that allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by Read More...

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