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Silverlight Dynamic Video Puzzle
22 January 08 11:02 AM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
My blog title says it all, Monkey see, Monkey Build .  I saw Microsoft Surface's video puzzle and I needed to build it.  I took this opportunity to play with Microsoft's new technology, Silverlight and build my own puzzle game.  I couldn't Read More...
Winter Visualization for Windows Media Player in C++
20 December 07 02:52 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Ever wondered what's behind a visualization? This is your opportunity to learn something new because there are only a couple of Windows Media Player Visualizations that deliver source code. You'll learn to build a new visualization with Visual C++ 2005 Read More...
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Building a Ray-Tracing 3D Renderer
16 July 07 12:00 PM | Coding4Fun | 22 Comments   
A little about ray-tracing... Ray-tracing works sort of like a camera in real life, but in reverse. With a camera (or your eyes, for that matter), rays of light from the environment enter the lens and hit the film/digital chip/meaty eye cells. Something Read More...
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Synthesized Podcasts for your Zune and iPod using SAPI
09 July 07 08:18 PM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
The guide takes you on your new speech-enabled adventure, as you'll learn to mix text with speech into a simple program that synthesizes XHTML transitional blog posts into the Wave format - for your iPod - using SAPI 5.3 and encodes them into the Windows Read More...
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Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device
14 May 07 01:08 PM | Coding4Fun | 28 Comments   
This article demonstrates how to use a smartphone running Windows Mobile 5 to remotely control a host machine running Windows Media Center. I will describe how to create an add-in application that runs within Windows Media Center, and how to create a Read More...
Non-Destructive Media Edits
13 November 06 01:06 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
This sample allows you to mark out the offensive sections of your media and skip or mute the sections automatically during playback without modifying the actual media file. Uses Windows Media Player 10 SDK. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Read More...
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What's Playing? Interfacing Your Media with an External LCD Panel using Visual Studio 2005 Express
31 October 06 12:06 PM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   
The demonstrates a .NET Framework-based application using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition that interfaces with a CrystalFontz XE634 4-line by 20-character or XE632 2-line by 16-character display. The application will determine the song currently playing Read More...
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Displaying Your iTunes Library
31 October 06 10:33 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
iTunes allows to play and organize music collection, as well as buy individual songs from their online store. All the information stored using iTunes is stored as XML; that allows to display music library in different formats. In this article some of Read More...
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Ask the ZMan: Applying Textures, Part 2
31 October 06 09:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Part 2 of a three part series explaining the addition of textures to DirectX Primitive shapes.This column covers how to get a different texture on each side of the box. ZMan The ZBuffer Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Read More...
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Ask the ZMan:Applying Textures, Part 1
31 October 06 09:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
Part 1 of a three part series explaining the addition of textures to DirectX Primitive shapes.This column covers how texture coordinates are stored inside the mesh object, the relationship between the texture coordinates and the texture, and the most Read More...
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Ask the ZMan: Applying Textures, Part 3
31 October 06 09:50 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Part 3 of a three part series explaining the addition of textures to DirectX Primitive shapes. ZMan The ZBuffer Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Studio Express Editions Hardware: Download: C# Download C# Download Read More...
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Giving Computers a Voice
31 October 06 05:20 AM | Coding4Fun | 16 Comments   
This article demonstrates how easy it is to enable managed applications to finally talk back using Microsoft's Speech API (SAPI). Matt Harrington Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Studio Express Editions Hardware: Download: Read More...
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