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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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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...
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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.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...
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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