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Windows Phone Keyboard: Speed demon or just a demon?
Is the Windows Phone Keyboard just another piece of crud from the “soft” keyboard crowd? Or is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/30/2011
NuGet does work on Visual Studio Express
Hey NuGet does work on VS Express! Wow, this is awesome! To get NuGet go to:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/27/2011
Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas Part 5/5
In previous blogs I gave strong hints (to differentiate them from well written instructions) on how...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/25/2011
Free Game Design tools, just in time for Christmas 4/5: Sprites & Backgrounds
To make the Platformer app look like a Christmas app, you will need to modify the sprites used, as...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/24/2011
Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas, part 3/5
Following, rather late, on my blog posts from Nov. 2011: Free Game Design Tools, just in time for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/22/2011
ASU Links for Windows Phone Dev!
Great work DISC! Enjoy the phones, and go Sun Devils! https://bit.ly/asuexpressiontoolbox...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/15/2011
Oh crud, I turned in my app to app hub and all I got was: [NeutralResourceLangage] and no t-shirt
So all excited and hopeful you submit your app to the App Hub, thinking, “WOW, I am a real software...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/13/2011
Expression Blend 4 or Visual Studio Express?
Both. In fact you can develop in one and then switch to the other: In Expression, right click on the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/08/2011
Using Blend 4: Zombies versus Santa Claus
Does it get any better? Zombies versus Santa Claus, really! Ok, I used Expression Design...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/06/2011
Hidden Emoticons or Emoji’s on Windows Phone 7
But where is (J) or which I think is Just Texted You.
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/06/2011
Using Expression Blend 4 to build Windows Phone Apps: The beginnning
I have come up with some ideas on how to build Windows Phone Apps using Expression Blend, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/06/2011
Using FarSeer Physics helper in Windows Phone 7 NO CODE development
First you will need to have Visual Studio Pro or Ultimate or Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/29/2011
Please view these videos on how to design a game using Farseer
There are six videos that you will need to review, these are shown when you hover over the video...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/28/2011
Adobe announced on Nov. 8 that they are ending Flash on mobile support
Oh wow. They are going to focus on HTML 5. Nice. Adobe has 99% of the PCs in the Marketplace...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/23/2011
Is it XAML or Silverlight? And what is going to happen to various technologies at Microsoft?
As a technology evangelist I must make an unofficial statement: “I have no idea”. But I can look at...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/23/2011
Two paths in the wilderness: Silverlight with XNA game management and XNA game management
Long title. But really, it is two ways to do game management and then there is another branch at the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/22/2011
Unity Skipping Windows Phone 7
Oh well, let’s hope Unity will support Windows Phone 8, it is a nice tool, a little dependent on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/22/2011
A splash screen and then your game screen: Zombie Santa Claus Level Programming
It’s so simple that you might now quite get it, there is a first screen, like a splash screen,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/18/2011
USC: Background Image and Orienting a background image
With some software considerations, you can easily move the background image around to fit the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/17/2011
USC: Screen Orientation
Here is a simple example that shows how to determine the Screen Orientation on Windows Phone 7 The...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/17/2011
UCLA Material: Using Gestures
This is the code that is used at the pre-Hackathon training session on Thursday. The code is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/17/2011
USC: Links to sites with free stuff, money making and learning material
$$$$$$$$$$$$ Making Money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$: Get your Dreamspark account attached to your LiveID...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/17/2011
Using the ILDASM
What does the code look like when it is prepared for use by the microprocessor? To do this you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/15/2011
Imagine Cup: Uploading your ASP.NET project for judging
This one is usually confusing for people using ASP.NET the first time, how do I share my ASP.NET app...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/14/2011
Imagine Cup: Uploading your Game Files to the Imagine Cup site
It is only a few hours before the Imagine Cup Fall Round 2 closes, and I usually get a few emails...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/14/2011
Imagine Cup, Uploading your Software Design Project: files, video, etc..
It is only a few hours before the Imagine Cup Fall Round 2 closes, and I usually get a few emails...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/14/2011
Imagine Cup: I got a medical idea for phone and no way to implement it, now you do with Health Vault, mobile SDK
Yes you do. " Health Vault! Health Vault, but if you go to the Health Vault site...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/08/2011
That Accelerometer simulator thingie, where is it?
If you are starting with Windows Phone 7, welcome. Here is the little secret, most writers...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/07/2011
Building Windows Phone Apps, Windows Phone Apps, Windows Phone Apps
The economy at the end of 2011 is not going well for many groups of people. Scams are all over...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/07/2011
Direct X 11, XNA and Blender
I am loading the Direct X June edition onto my system, and thinking: “Why am I doing this?” ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/06/2011
Link for Imagine Cup Demo
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202938(v=VS.92).aspx Video added below XAML and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/05/2011
Free ly thinking: Maybe MSDN isn’t such a bad thing for WP7.1 beginner devs
Just when I thought that MSDN was a big pile of out of date information, confusing search returns,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/05/2011
Free Design Tools just in time for Christmas, 2/5: Installing the tools
Just Talking First off, a quick note to Dr. Shin Liu students, please check Dr. Liu’s class...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/04/2011
Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas, part 1/5
With the new Nokia phone, free tools and lots of time on your hands (you do have lots of time on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/04/2011
Jobs in securing code: An answer to email from student whose name starts with a B at Rio Hondo
Hey Blake, you forgot to include your email on the email response to my blog. So I will answer...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/02/2011
Positioning fonts on the Windows Phone 7 Screen
Lecture for tonights class, which I would like to share with you dear reader, the first part is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/31/2011
Free ly thinking: Codecs that are supported by Windows Phone 7
Often I think about the Codecs supported by Windows Phone 7, and when I do, I take a look at the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/31/2011
Free ly thinking: More discussion about the MediaPlayerLauncher class or how to show a video in WP7 XNA
Let's face it, in MSDN documentation there is often a very constrainted information about...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/31/2011
Free ly Thinking: Can I increase the frame rate in Windows Phone 7
No. You can decrease the framerate, which you might do to conserve resources, but the framerate...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/29/2011
Review of 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, volume 1: Developing Apps 1-50
Pretty good, although a little out of date, but the projects for the most part work. I didn’t...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/28/2011
Future of technology
This is a cool video, thanks to Scott Kerfoot. Many of these ideas are available through the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/27/2011
John McCarthy, Father of Artificial Intelligence and LISP passes from this veil
It is sad to hear that John McCarthy has died at 84, he was still active on the internet with his...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/27/2011