July 2009 - Posts

Debugging without executing your application
30 July 09 02:06 PM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   

I came across Habib Heydarian’s blog and he has one of the coolest tips I’ve seen in a while with debugging.  Habib shows how to debug an application without actually running it. He uses the Immediate Window (Debug –> Windows –> Immediate Window) Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Visual Studio, debugging

AI with c# and LINQ
28 July 09 12:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

I came across this from Miguel de Icaza’s twitter feed , Christopher Park designing an AI with c# and LINQ. Currently it is a 4 part series, each is an interesting read into what exactly goes into an artificial intelligence system. Introduction Queries Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, gaming, artificial intelligence

Download and Play Popfly Games Offline
22 July 09 11:59 AM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

  With the announcement that the Popfly Game Creator will be shut down starting August 24th, we’ve published the Popfly Game Downloader, a utility to download Popfly games while the Popfly service is still running so you can play them even after Read More...

Filed under: utility, web, gaming

Creating Games with Silverlight: A Simple Shooter
21 July 09 10:19 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

This article will take you through some of the steps to creating the basics for writing games with Silverlight. This is a simple shooter style game that contains some of the building blocks for games that require abilities such as vectors, collision detection, Read More...

Filed under: web, gaming, Silverlight, Audio

WiiMoteLib with MotionPlus
20 July 09 11:35 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Brian Peek has updated his WiiMote library to 1.8b1 with freshly added support for the MotionPlus add-on. Taiko Drum Master's TaTaCon drum controller supported (Dean Herbert) Bare-bones Wii MotionPlus support ( wiibrew.org , testing by Tyler Tolley) WiimoteTest Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, gaming, wiimote

Aliens invading with XNA
14 July 09 11:10 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Brian Peek , of wiimote fame, gave a talk to the Facebook .NET Programmers Group and had it recorded.  The talk is about creating a clone of Space Invaders called Alien Attack in XNA Game Studio 3.0.  If you want even greater detail, this is Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, gaming, XNA

Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera
07 July 09 12:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   

By Robert Fischer , Technical Architect, Daugherty Business Solutions Pierre Lafromboise , Business Intelligence Architect, Daugherty Business Solutions, and Anne Fischer Maybe you have always wanted to get started developing a Windows Mobile 6.x application Read More...

Filed under: windows mobile, image manipulation

TweetCraft - An in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft
02 July 09 01:18 AM | Coding4Fun | 16 Comments   

  TweetCraft is a World of Warcraft add-on that enables you to send and receive tweets using Twitter without leaving the game, automatically upload and post screenshots using TwitPic and automatically tweet certain in-game events such as achievements Read More...

Filed under: mash up, web services, gaming, Visual Studio