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Collin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:52:10 GMT

Hey, nice site.. good articles.. But seriously.. As much as I like the ice cube effect on those icons that banner needs to get slimmed down.. Very ugly loading.. big time overkill and clutter..

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NomaD — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:58:05 GMT

Thank you very much for above links.

I've been looking around the Net for any pointers how to start programming. You guys have got it all right. Thanks for the links and videos.

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abdul wakeel buneri — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:50:30 GMT

i need the code of this soft ware for the sake of learning so please send me the code of this soft ware for making the game or other soft ware

i will be very thank full to u

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Gerard — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:07:26 GMT

Your link to the Flight Simulator SDk (http://fsinsider.com/Community/Developers-Corner/About-the-SDK.htm) is a bad link.

:thumbup:

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Dany — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:21:28 GMT

I agree with Gerard, the link for the Flight Simulator SDK is down or it never exist.

Best regards from Romanian people.

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George Nadort — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:17:28 GMT

How can i make in aplication white mediaplayer 9 an

Equalizer

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Robin — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:58:16 GMT

Link to the Flight Sim X SDK is still broken. :(

I think it is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=24910E66-96B0-4543-9B4A-647B7E28F212&displaylang=en

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Sadanand — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:36:40 GMT

This is nice to see such tolls provided for enduser for free of cost who cannot afford.I am also one of them.I am learner.So thanks for Microsoft Corporation for Providing such a learning environment.

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LeShun Coleman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:28:25 GMT

I would really like to make my own game. I am taking classes right now, for visual basic .NET and self teaching myself other developing languages. This is boring and is altering my passion to learn this stuff. So, if I could do some of the fun stuff that could be implemented, then I would like at coding and programming differently.

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Dtaylor — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:22:10 GMT

I am constructing a string from email subject lines that will be used as a Windows filename. There are bad characters in the string that can not be used in windows filenames. Do you know of an elegant routine that will allow for options to convert, change or remove the bad characters so the string is filename safe. Is there a standard convention that should be followed?

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Alan Carvalho — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:53:18 GMT

What is the c++ code for an up arrow the size of a letter, and how can I make it different colors?

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nicholas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:01:14 GMT

i need the code of this soft ware for the sake of learning so please send me the code of this soft ware for making the game or other soft ware

i will be very thank full to u

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Sume Rossini — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:30:03 GMT

Nice help we are getting from you.

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Dude — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:46:41 GMT

What about web-based gaming that java applets and flash/macromedia have been able to do for decades? (ok, at least one decade then :) )

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Alden — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:21:55 GMT

You should ad tutorials for the Microsoft Xbox System Development Kit (XDK).

want to have fun? take a break and write some code for fun :D

Code Eater — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:29:44 GMT

ok, i get it now, you are here either to tell me how geek am i or simply we are in the same ship :D,,,

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Francisco Liz — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:02:17 GMT

Why am I having such a hard time to open the link for Beginning Game Development: parts IV, V and VIII. It gives me an error and promts me to send the error to Microsoft? is there a way for me view the three parts so that I can get a better understanding of the material which I have started? Thanks

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bryan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:59:08 GMT

flight sim sdk info herehttp://www.fsinsider.com/developers/Pages/UpdatestotheSDKinSP1.aspx

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Dan Henne — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:38:08 GMT

The link for Phidgets SDK should probably be pointing to this page:

http://www.phidgets.com/downloads.php?os_id=1

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Arturo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:28:12 GMT

I'm doing a bonus calculator in which I will determine the bonus from a sales amount multiplied by the hours worked for several employees. In a label the name of the employee will appear and the bonus dollar amount for each employee. The total hours must not be more than 160. How do I code the program to do this.

Thanks for your help.

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Colin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:54:15 GMT

New to programming and this site is a lot of help! Thanks.

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mwalts — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:31:36 GMT

Excellent site, but this page needs to be updated to reflect the new Visual Studio Express offerings.

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Great site for getting started on developing on the Microsoft Platform. http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/pages/1994662.asp

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Great site for getting started on developing on the Microsoft Platform. http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun

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raman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:06:40 GMT

I need a tool that will understand simple logic or algorithm and generate the required software code for any general application.

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Coding4Fun — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:23:48 GMT

@raman: You want UML or something like Visio?

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Coding4Fun — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:15:06 GMT

@raman: If you want to do Class Diagrams, that is built into Visual Studio also.

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H4xlemur — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:37:34 GMT

Love the site. Love C#. Kep up the good work, and keep the SDK's coming!

The Incredible H4xing Lemur

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Link — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:25:29 GMT

I'm Wanting to Make a Video Editor in Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 But I don't Know how to Get a Screen For People to View Their Project and a Trimmer Where they can Edit The Video Clips. How do I do that?

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Sujit Bose — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:14:26 GMT

I am unable to upload pictures (*.jpg) thru Visual Web Development Express using c# and vb.

Please tell me the tricks.

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jerry — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:04:49 GMT

I need help trying to install xna but it asks me for c# 2005 and the only one available is the 2008 i already installed the 2008 but the xna insataller also asks for the sp1 for c # 2005 i downloaded the sp1 and i cant install it will someone help me out?

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dean — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:43:01 GMT

I am new to Visual Basic. I would like to do a very, very, very simple flowchart front end, where the the boxes will tie to a database. I have had no luck finding code for a simple flowchart and am not familiar enough with the VB tools to know where to look. What books, sites, or tools should I be looking at to get some examples of how to do this? Thanks a lot.

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Coding4Fun — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:03:59 GMT

@Jerry: Use the XNA 2.0 install. XNA 1.0 required c# 2005 Express.

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Coding4Fun — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:05:45 GMT

@Dean: How do you want it tied to a database? Check out my bartending (drunktender) software (http://peacelovecode.com). I have a SQL Wrapper and from there you'll get a dataset. From there you can create your flow chart.

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Coding4Fun — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:33:26 GMT

@Sujit Bose: I need more information that what you're providing, use the contact link at the top of the page.

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Greg Jenson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:39:57 GMT

Most of the above links no longer work (Windows SDK, Vista Media Center etc). Please update your links

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Coding4Fun — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:43:34 GMT

@Greg: Thanks for the tip, on it.

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Duckytoo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:33:05 GMT

I just downloaded the express software that Microsoft so graciously allows us to use and I've perused this site for most of the afternoon. I'm anxious to get the coding started but none of my new software works as I'm getting "requested registry access is not allowed". I've gone through Microsoft's knowledge base related to permission for a custom event logs but the problem persists. Does anybody have a for-sure solution to this?

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grassBlade — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:14:17 GMT

Unfortunately, can't say I'm thrilled with your color choice for links...they are virtually unreadable on my display

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Coding4Fun — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:56:00 GMT

@grassBlade: It may be your CSS settings. It should be dark blue links on a white background!

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vasudev karthik — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:09:37 GMT

thanks a lot...pretty useful ..... do check the link for Flight Simulator....seems to be broken....

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Davie — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:07:02 GMT

Small Problem -if you enter your site with UK English as the default page language, your site takes you to a intermediate page that only lists this site as being available in Franch or Chinese.

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Jody — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:58:25 GMT

Does microsoft have an visual basic support for the mac?

Please don't respond with parallels or boot camp, but rather is their a visual basic that works more natively with the mac os.

I am aware of real basic, but it is very costly and I trying to find lower cost alternative to recomment on my http://teachtopia.com website.

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Kirra — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:17:14 GMT

Great site. Thanks for the tips. Helpful for a girl starting to code!

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Coding4Fun — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:32:56 GMT

@Jody: If you contact me via the contact link at the top, I'll connect you with someone that may be able to help you out. Off the top of my head you disliked both solutions I would have handed out.

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Jeymz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:11 GMT

Great site love the idea of getting people involved and interested in coding. Great resources and great layout.

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David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:28:07 GMT

I'm new to coding. Could anyone recommend a good tutorial to start with?

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Coding4Fun — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:19:43 GMT

@David, all depends what you want to code.

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Teddy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:20:12 GMT

Please Help !!

I was very comfortable with HTML + TIME and SMIL 1

How do I go about using those types of transforms and filters in IE7

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Abhishek Mishra — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:14:09 GMT

Recently a seminar was held on visual studio 2008 & .net in our college... I was pretty amazed at features in VS that help us solve problems in an easier way. Having left microsoft related development after Visual Studio 6, I feel like getting back to the new things happening on microsoft side..

thanks for such the efforts on educating people about dev tools by MS at college levels.

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Rosell — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:20:56 GMT

You just have to play with it I guess.

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TheUberOverLord — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:14:01 GMT

Try this Dave: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/NotifyIconExample.aspx

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/*Pr@th@m*/ — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:08:12 GMT

Always had a passion for designing WebSites.Got a great tool in the form of visual Web Developer 08.Video tutuorials rock!!Keep up the good work....:-)

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lee — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:09:41 GMT

Am working on a project,that is speech recognition.It translates speech to text for display. Any one out there having any sample code for such an application.Most likely in visual basic.

with regard lee

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andy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:44:09 GMT

Why do you assume that beginners understand the term 'API' & 'SDK' - a little bit of an explaination would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Coding4Fun — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:44:01 GMT

@Andy, an API is how you talk to a bit of code someone else wrote.

An SDK is a tool kit, a set of tools, you get which contains many APIs but has a overall theme. An example would be the DirectX SDK where it has everything to do with DirectX APIs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sdk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api

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Mubshir — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:23:35 GMT

Realy cool site for tech minds.

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ajay — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:31:59 GMT

i want develop games..................................................................

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Nick — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:52:11 GMT

You have a lot of broken links on this page and on the various posts. Is this site maintained anymore?

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Coding4Fun — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:58:35 GMT

@Nick, sorry, there was 2 broken links, we have full time jobs on top of this site. We can't control external content sadly.

Links fixed.

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Monkey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:09:17 GMT

Hey, cool site. Just letting you know, you should -really- consider using something other than the .NET framework for stuff like gaming and the programming sections. XNA is a memory hog, and is built for .NET, which is slow and very, very unsecure. Perhaps a nice C++ and directx section would be cool.

However, your digital fish tank video has inspired me to work with motion detection and a camera. :)

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Coding4Fun — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:57:13 GMT

@Monkey, .Net is secure and used by countless corporations across the global. I personally know .Net is extremely fast as I built a self-balancing skateboard running it. You can make any code insecure and slow, it is all up to the developer. Believe it or not, it is very easy to make C++ slow and memory bloated. .Net runs on everything from watches to sensors to HPC clusters doing seriously large computations.

Yes programs that use frameworks do have a bit more of a memory footprint since they load more tools into memory. As a developer however, the memory increase is so minimal, who cares. We’re far past the days of 16kb of RAM. I’m not saying efficient code doesn’t matter, I’m saying using the proper tools for the job.

Seriously, try c# and .Net, I’ll bet you’ll be amazed at the functionality, speed, and power of the language and framework. Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow.com even agrees. http://tinyurl.com/kklvnf

We did do some C++ and Direct X stuff but typically the learning curve on those is extremely high. If you'd like to do an article, please email us code4fun@microsoft.com and we'd love to chat about you doing an article.