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Facebook SDK
11 November 09 10:26 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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Popfly game engine – open source
27 August 09 11:01 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
As popfly is getting shut down August 31st, they released the game engine under the Ms-Pl.  If you used the Popfly Game Downloader we released a few weeks back to grab your games, there’s also instructions on how to crack them open and grab the data Read More...
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LINQ 2 SQL Cheat Sheet
13 August 09 09:45 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
Damien Guard has created a nice little cheat sheet for LINQ 2 SQL .  Damien even went the extra yard and put it in both VB.Net and C# since the syntax is slightly different for each. If you haven’t tried LINQ2SQL, it is pretty powerful.  Stuff Read More...
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GPS tools
11 August 09 12:01 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   
GeoFrameworks and Jon Person released their GPS Framework for .NET on CodePlex! The really nice thing about this framework is it works with both the full blown .NET Framework and the Compact Framework. If you’re developing for a Windows Mobile, embedded, Read More...
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