October 2009 - Posts

Halloween Gremlins
31 October 09 06:37 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

This article describes a quick and easy application to play Halloween tricks on the PC. Randall Maas Run It: Download Code It: Download Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 4 hours Cost: Free! Software Needed: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Introduction Read More...

Filed under: halloween, holiday, Audio, Pranks

wpf text blurry blues?
29 October 09 02:48 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Have you hated how WPF has blurry text depending on what happens?  Well, .Net 4.0 and WPF 4.0 fixes that.  If you try out a version after Visual Studio 2010 beta 2, you can use these fixes as well.  The MSDN Text blog outlines how to fix Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Visual Studio 2010

Getting Loopy
26 October 09 06:56 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Over at the Visual Basic blog, Matt Gertz has a great post on hidden effects with loops on stuff you may not realize . He talks about how looping backwards versus forwards depending on the situation will drastically simplify your code or if you’re looping Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Coding, Visual Basic

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 released!
21 October 09 02:56 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

  You guys want to try out the newest and greatest Visual Studio Express?  The Visual Studio team just released VS 2010 Beta 2 for everyone to try out.  It should be out in March, 2010 for the full version as well. Visual Basic http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167868 Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, Beta

The Coding4Fun Show: WPF MediaKit with Jeremiah Morrill
19 October 09 09:04 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show , Brian Peek interviews Jeremiah Morrill who has written WPF MediaKit , an amazing library to quickly build DirectShow and MediaFoundation media player controls in WPF.  It's amazingly powerful and, as a developer, Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Coding4Fun TV, WPF

XNA and textures
16 October 09 01:11 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Looking for some XNA help? Shawn Hargreaves’s blog has a bunch of answers questions like anisotropic filtering, mipmapping, and texture filtering. If you’re not sure what mipmapping is, it is precalculating a copy of an image that is smaller than the Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, XNA

.NET Voice Recorder
08 October 09 02:29 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

In this article I demonstrate how to record from the microphone in .NET, with support for setting the recording level, trimming noise from the start and end, visualizing the waveform in WPF and converting to MP3. Mark Heath http://mark-dot-net.blogspot.com/ Read More...

Filed under: Audio, WPF, MVVM, Model-View-ViewModel

Creating Photo Stacks
05 October 09 10:00 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Simon Hoade liked how Windows had 3D photo stacks and wanted to recreate the effect . He shows how he used threads and calling WPF code from a web server without actually having a WPF application! He mentioned he used two tutorials also that helped aid Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, WPF