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Welcome to the gaming social with XNA 3.0 CTP
07 May 08 10:45 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Want to develop games for your Zune? The XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview has been released ! Dave Weller talks about a few hit points to pay attention to. You must use a Visual Studio 2008 SKU. You don't need to uninstall Visual Studio Read More...
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Scrape that screen with LINQ
29 April 08 03:27 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Beth Massi has done something I know some of you C4F readers have been asking for.  Beth developed a quick and easy way to query a web site with LINQ to XML .  One of the commenter pointed out also you can do a HTML to XHTML conversion with Read More...
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Teaching blog software new tricks
28 April 08 07:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
I'm a massive fan of Microsoft Live Writer when it comes to writing blogs. Why you might ask? Because it works with tons of blog engines. The MSDN blogs are done with Community Server while others have personal blogs that range from SubText , WordPress Read More...
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My robot can totally beat up your robot
25 April 08 01:54 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Microsoft launched a new contest called RoboChamp which is a simulated robotics competition.  By using Robotics Developer Studio 2008, you have the ability to write code or use an xbox 360 controller. If you need some help getting started, RoboChamps Read More...
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LINQ, then what happened?
24 April 08 11:55 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
Kevin Hoffman sent in an email regarding a flippin sweet project on CodePlex called CLINQ.  It stands for continuous LINQ and is a .Net 3.5 extention.  As changes occur in the source of your query, the result set is continuously re-evaluated Read More...
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FFmpeg to transcode
16 April 08 03:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Ever have a video file that you want to play in Silverlight or Flash but couldn't get it to play?  Fear not!  Arinhere on Code Project has done a release showing just how to do transcoding using FFMPEG in VB.Net .  Another individual made Read More...
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Deepzoom application in 15 minutes
09 April 08 12:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Dan Waters has created a quick Deepzoom tutorial.  Here is his DeepZoom application in a working environment .  If you want access to his source code, check out the full post . Read More...
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Capturing that darn webcam stream
06 April 08 11:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Ever wanted to do capture a webcam data stream and save it to a WMV file?  The UberDemo blog over at the MSDN blogs shows you how to accomplish just this .  They had to create a Cirque du Soleil demo for MIX '08 and shows the basics on how to Read More...
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Burn baby burn
02 April 08 11:24 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Over at Code Project, Eric Haddan created a very nice API to burn CDs and DVDs .  He uses the IMAPI v2.0 to be able to do this complex ability.  Eric talks about some of the issues he had to accomplish this with .Net along with how he solved Read More...
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Software License breakdown
31 March 08 04:48 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Always wonder what is the difference between the GPL, the Ms-PL, Creative Commons, and the MIT software licenses are? Over at the Code Project, they have a extremely easy to understand breakdown of software licenses . Provides copyright protection Can Read More...
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You need 20 pieces of flare for your application
27 March 08 11:52 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
  FluidKit is a great open-source kit for WPF applications.  One of the new features in the kit is called ElementFlow which recreates some effects from another company who's logo may or may not be an Apple. In addition to just the element flow Read More...
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Code Faster: Activate Snippet Power
26 March 08 07:11 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
The VB Team has a great article on snippets .  Well, first off, what exactly is a snippet?  It is a bit of code you constantly use over and over again.  A great example is a property.  If I start typing "Pro" Then I'll get: Read More...
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Silverlight - Everything you wanted to know
25 March 08 09:38 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski posted a video over on Channel9 outlining a lot of things you'll need to know about Silverlight . His video includes: What it is Where to get the software and tools to code in it What been updated in Silverlight 2.0 project Read More...
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My band is "Unsigned", is yours?
19 March 08 01:52 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Louis Ingenthron has created a XNA clone of everyone's (well, my favorite) xbox 360 game, Rock Band, called Unsigned .  I'm not sure yet if it works with the microphone or drums but it is only a matter of time.  I'm impressed how close the user Read More...
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Clint, you left the soldering iron on ... again.
14 March 08 01:04 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Over at Popular Science, they've created a neat little project for people on the go, an electronic Post-It note system .  With about $175 worth of parts and a day's worth of spare time, you'll be able to create one of these wonder machines. (1) LCD Read More...
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