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April Fool's Day Special on Channel9 & Coding4Fun

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 11:23 AM by danielfe
April Fool's Day is always one of my favorite holidays and having development skills means you can take pranks to a whole new level. Check out our Coding4Fun April Fool's Day special that includes Interviews and Demos: Interviews (soon to be on Channel9 Read More...
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How to silently install or network install Visual Studio Express

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 8:20 AM by danielfe
From Aaron Stebner , setup guru. How to silently install Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions How to do a network install How to create a combined network install point for all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions Aside: Aaron is one of the unspoken heroes Read More...
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Asli Bilgin on ZDNet for Visual Studio 2005 overviews

Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:28 PM by danielfe
Asli Bilgin, Microsoft developer evangelist and arguably one of the nicest people at Microsoft, did a [sponsored] whiteboard series on ZDNet . Asli was nice enough to give me her lucky USB keychain after my May CTP bad crash lesson in TechEd Europe . Read More...
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XNA Framework Official Announcement (via BrianKel)

Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 10:09 AM by danielfe
As I previously blogged , it's now officially announced: The XNA Framework is a custom version of the CLR and class libraries built to enable execution of managed code on an Xbox 360 and Windows. At the Game Developer Conference, they are showing games Read More...
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Mech Commander 2 Source Code Available for Download

Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 9:49 AM by danielfe
Former Coding4Fun guru and now XNA wonk Brian Keller announced on his blog that Microsoft Game Studios has released the source code (note 1GB size) for Mech Commander 2, the real-time strategy game . The XNA team released Mech Commander 2's source code Read More...
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Job Opening: Managing Editor for MSDN

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 9:11 AM by danielfe
If you know someone who has editing experience and is passionate about developers, I can't think of a larger developer Web site then MSDN to work on. Interested? Email Serina Kaye Managing Editor, MSDN Online Are you passionate about developers? Would Read More...
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Skype trick to never pay for long distance

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 9:01 AM by danielfe
Juval Lowy sent me this gem of a tip for how to use Skype on a PocketPC leveraging Verizon's broadband network and have your calls automatically forwarded to your PocketPC (no more nights and weekends). It also works well when travelling assuming your Read More...
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Managed code on Xbox 360 Developer Kits

Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:44 PM by danielfe
Mike Zintel, Compact Framework guru blogs about getting ready for the Game Developer Conference next week: I also know that working with the Xbox team has been among the most enjoyable and productive cross group work that I’ve done. I know that my team Read More...
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Willkommen German Coding4Fun!

Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:21 PM by danielfe
Uwe Baumann and team from Microsoft Germany launched the German Coding4Fun at CeBit. The site includes some very cool content, including video tutorials on building Rocket Commander ( screenshots ), a fully managed DirectX game built by Benjamin Nitschke Read More...
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The Award for Best Creative in a Tech News Story

Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:27 AM by danielfe
[from Luca ] The award for best creative in a story goes to the SD Times team and Larry O'Brien for the story on LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) - One Language to Bind Them All (pg 27). I have to love that they even burned in "C#" into the ring :) Read More...
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Join the Visual Studio Engineer-to-Engineer Program

Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:24 AM by danielfe
Karl Melder and team have created another mechanism for you to give feedback on Visual Studio with the E2E Connection Program. Here's the details, but if you want to help influence the next version of Visual Studio, sign up! ******** You can actively Read More...
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Coding4Fun sponsoring O'Reilly's Make Magazine Maker Faire

Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:37 AM by danielfe
Mark you calendars for April 22-23 as Make Magazine is holding one of the coolest conferences you can imagine, Maker Faire. I've been a big fan of Make magazine for a while, I mean how can you not appreciate cool projects like Electric Giraffes or Roomba's Read More...
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Geeks Pimp a Foosball Table

Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:04 AM by danielfe
I used to be a big foosball player a while back so I personally think this is very cool. In this Coding4Fun article , the guys at Clarity Consulting used Ultimarc hardware to build an end to end hi-tech foosball system with: Scoring Scheduling Statistics Read More...
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Music To Code By Vol 5 - "Hunt the Wumpus"

Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 10:04 PM by danielfe
DJ Bolivia's officially released Music to Code By Vol 5 "Hunt the Wumpus" and it's another winner! Don't get the "Hunt the Wumpus" reference, Wikipedia can give you all the details " Hunt the Wumpus " - Music To Code By, Volume 5 of 6 64 minutes of Progressive/Tribal Read More...
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on10.net is out

Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 9:56 PM by danielfe
Channel9++; Big congratulations to Jeff Sandquist , Duncan Mackenzie and the On10 team for making this happen. I really have to say that Jeff and company are *the* team for agility. If only all of our Web properties could be that agile :) Read More...
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Made In Express Contest - $10K is just an idea away

Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 9:24 PM by danielfe
Woohooo, the Made In Express contest officially launched today! First some background, one of the things we wanted to do was create a different kind of contest. While we don't have American Idol money and since we can't get Bill Gates to hire an Apprentice, Read More...
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Brad's Right - Sanity Does Prevail

Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:38 PM by danielfe
Brad Abrams recently penned a blog: PM Tip #21: Sanity Will Prevail . Wow, if there is one lesson to learn at Microsoft, for your own sanity, it's this one. John Montgomery actually shared this one a while back and I honestly didn't believe him at the Read More...
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Music To Code By Vol 4 - Blogging's influence on Music

Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:52 PM by danielfe
I was trading emails with DJ Bolivia today and little did I notice that he released another great Music to Code By release, which will have a total of six releases. The new release is Vol 4 - " Partisan Scream Fest " (The Power of Blogs). What's the significance Read More...
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AOL IM SDK for all developers

Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 8:02 AM by danielfe
America Online today announced the availability of the Open AIM Instant Messenger SDK on their developer site, developer.aim.com . Using the SDK, you can build: AIM Online Presence AIM Plug-ins AIM Custom Clients Greg's Blog has more information, but Read More...
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