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Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:57 PM

Paint.NET texture importer

Daniel Hanson made a Paint.NET (.pdn) texture importer for the XNA Framework Content Pipeline. Now we have direct support for Photoshop , Gimp , and Paint.NET images. /me wonders what's next...
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 8 Comments
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:13 PM

Automatic XNB serialization samples

I don't usually bother linking to things that already exist elsewhere, but I totally missed this announcement, so I figure you might have too. My apologies if this is old news! We updated several Content Pipeline samples to take advantage of the automatic
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 0 Comments
Monday, July 20, 2009 3:40 PM

Avatar sample goodness

Roll up, roll up, get 'em while they're hot...
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:59 AM

Beware of the big bad LINQ

Pop quiz – given: Stack< int > stack; what is the difference between: return stack.Count; and: return stack.Count(); Is it: No difference: both return the number of elements on the specified stack The first is a property of Stack<T>, while
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 7 Comments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:52 PM

The perils of microbenchmarking

The best way to understand the performance of a program is to run it with a profiler attached , but that isn't always possible. Maybe the program isn't written yet, and you want to investigate the performance of a possible design before committing to
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 8 Comments
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 6:54 PM

Profiling with Stopwatch

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Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 9 Comments
Monday, July 06, 2009 7:23 PM

Why measure when you can guess?

I recently bought a new house, and along the way our agent recommended we get a sewer inspection. Those things are so cool! The guy arrived with a roll of tubing attached to a gizmo that looked like a prop from City of Lost Children , unwound this into
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 13 Comments
Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:26 PM

Automatic XNB serialization and *Content classes

Automatic XNB serialization works best when the same classes are available at content build time and at runtime. Pedantic correction: if you are making an Xbox game, they can't actually be the SAME classes. You must compile the code twice , once for use
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 4 Comments
 
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