November 2009 - Posts

Silverlight Development
18 November 09 03:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

With Silverlight 4.0 just announced, here are some great posts / helpful tips on getting started with Silverlight in general. Channel9 has a training course . Tim Heuer has a 7-part series “ Getting Started with Silverlight ”. Shine Draw is an awesome Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Silverlight, Getting Started

Coding4Fun at PDC!
17 November 09 10:09 AM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

Coding4Fun is in attendance at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference!  We are demoing 5 projects that will have full how-to’s and will be open-sourced as well.  Drinktendr, Mind Blaster, Laser Graffiti, Augmented Reality, and Wi-Fi Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, hardware, XNA, wiimote, WPF, PDC

XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit
16 November 09 12:31 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Charlie Calvert has created great post covering the XNA Role Playing Game Starter Kit from the XNA team . Charlie talks about the tile engine and the quest engine.  The tile engine supports several layers to create a complex final level.  The Read More...

Filed under: XNA, Getting Started

Facebook SDK
11 November 09 10:26 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Microsoft just released a Facebo ok client library to help make it easier for everyone to create some interesting applications.  The SDK is broken into a few core DLLs, each serving a core purpose.  You can download the SDK from Download the Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, Silverlight, Facebook, ASP.Net MVC

Does the S in SQL stand for Scary?
09 November 09 09:54 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Nope, it stands for structured actually.  But if you are a bit afraid of SQL, MSDev.com has 20 how-to videos about SQL Server 2008 Express !  This series of short how-to-videos will touch on SQL Server Express 2008 features such as: how to backup Read More...

Filed under: c4fnews, starter kit, SQL