September 2009 - Posts

Fluids and edge detection in Silverlight
30 September 09 10:37 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Rick Barraza has 3 amazing examples in Silverlight. Writable Bitmaps This example shows how to use pixel shader displacement with line drawing to create some amazing effects. Fluid Dynamics Rick talks about how to do dynamic visuals, why they matter. Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Silverlight

PowerShelling in your application
28 September 09 08:42 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

If you have a PowerShell script that you need run from your application and didn’t know quite how to accomplish the feat, Cody Batt has an example of doing this at DevX.  Cody goes in and talks about about calling PowerShell with a quick example Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, PowerShell

Jquery faster
23 September 09 11:36 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

The ASP.Net team has just announced a new free service for the public to use.  If you have a website that uses jquery or the ASP.Net Ajax libraries, you can leverage our content delivery network (CDN) servers. To implement this, on your website you Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, web, ajax, asp.net ajax, jquery

Coding4Fun Show – Episode 3 with Rick Barraza
21 September 09 02:16 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Brian Peek interviews Rick Barraza for the Coding4Fun Show on Coding4Fun TV ! In this episode, Brian chats with Rick about advanced rendering techniques in Silverlight 3. Great stuff! Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Silverlight, Coding4Fun TV

XNA Extensions for Zune HD
18 September 09 09:48 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Want to see how to do some neat stuff on the Zune HD? Development Prerequisites (install in this order): Visual Studio (non-express) or Visual C# 2008 Express ( download ) XNA Game Studio 3.1 ( download ) XNA Game Studio Zune Extensions ( download ) Dan Read More...

Filed under: XNA, Zune, ZuneHD

NetFlix API
09 September 09 05:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Dave Cook has created an interesting write up on the Netflix API.  Netflix has a web service API model so you do need an internet connection to leverage this. He currently has 4 articles from the simple to the complex. API Basics Accessing the Title Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, media, web services

Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application
03 September 09 11:43 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Author: Giovanni Montrone Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 5-10 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Web Developer Express SP1 (or Visual Studio 2008 SP1), Silverlight 3 SDK ,  Silverlight 3 Tools for VS , Silverlight Toolkit Hardware: None Use Read More...

Filed under: utility, web miscellaneous, web, Silverlight