Saturday, April 10, 2010

Space Rocks game step 8: Hyperspace

Space Rocks game step 8: Hyperspace

Space Rocks game step 8: Hyperspace

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Source code: http://www.bluerosegames.com/spacerocks/spacerocks_8_hyperspace.zip Ok so one more quick keyboard handling related post for now, and then we'll get into displaying some more sprites. In the original Asteroids game there are four buttons,...( read more )...(read more)

Member.Of – Avoiding hard-coded strings for property names

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 03:32 AM PDT

In the hallways of building 42, several of us have talked about how often we need to hard-code member names as strings in code, but we always feel like there should be some language operator to do this. We've specifically said there should be a memberof Read More......(read more)

Watch the Live Broadcast of the Silverlight 4 Launch Event

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:11 PM PDT

  Want to be at DevConnections for the Silverlight 4 Launch but can;t make it? No worries, you can watch as Scott Guthrie launches Silverlight 4. Following the keynote you can watch Scott in special one hour edition of "Ask the Gu" along...( read more )...(read more)

Policy file for NetTcp

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:24 PM PDT

As part of Silverlight 4, developers can now use the NetTcp framing protocol for their web services. This is an addition that we expect a lot of you will find useful. However, many of you will probably hit the dreaded CommunicationException that lurks...( read more )...(read more)

Tracing PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Did you know it is now easier to debug the server side PollingDuplex in Silverlight 4? With the addition of tracing, you can now get a peek at what is happening internally within your service. Traces from PollingDuplex will include information about what...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Launch April 12 Las Vegas

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:56 PM PDT

I'm going to be in 'Vegas for the Launch on Monday, I'm not sure what time I'm getting in on Sunday, but I'm staying over Monday night as well, so if you're going to be around in that time-frame, send me an email! Bummer to not be there for Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook!

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Yesterday we announced our news for NAB next week in Las Vegas. Today we wanted to point out some other cool experiences to check out in Las Vegas. First we are showing the industry's most exciting demo of live 3D HD streaming using IIS Smooth Streaming...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2010 -- #835

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT

In this Issue: Tim Heuer , smartyP , and Kevin Moore . From SilverlightCream.com : Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications Tim Heuer has a post up using XNA on WP7 to hook up sound to a 'normal' Silverlight WP7 app... so there...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlytics: Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework + Windows Azure + Live Labs Pivot

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT

Since we announced the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework last month, we've been getting interest from all over the globe.  One segment of interest has been coming from the Service Oriented Analytics behavior that comes with the framework...( read more )...(read more)

Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Unfortunately, in the current version of the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight framework, it is not possible to attach any command on the ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton controls. These two controls appear in the Application Bar, for example...( read more )...(read more)

Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:27 PM PDT

I've been travelling some, and I have a few more trips at Microsoft WebCamps before I take a much needed break and stop travelling until 2011. I went to Munich, Cairo, and Egypt a few weeks back and presented on ASP.NET MVC (both Beginner and Advanced), .NET 4 in general, Making Your Blog Suck Less , and Information Overload . I presented at Mix 10 on Web Development and Security with Phil Haack . Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands and gave some talks as well. I thought it would be nice to put all my recent talks in one place. So, here's some video recordings of some of my recent talks. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I did giving them. ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics/Introduction Join Scott Hanselman as he explains ASP.NET...(read more)

Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:10 PM PDT

I recently got an inquiry to my Microsoft Translator sample on if this would work with the Silverlight in the Windows Phone 7 SDK. I hadn't tried it before, so I created a sample Windows Phone 7 application and copied the code over. I used a basic UI...( read more )...(read more)
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