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HTML 5: What is in IE 10?
In the previous blog post I discussed IE 9 and a short cheat sheet on HTML 5. What about IE...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/26/2011
HTML 5: What is in IE9?
HTMl 5 is still a work in progress, so if you are making decisions about how to design your web site...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/26/2011
DARNIT! The example I found for Windows Phone 7 storage doesn’t work
Yep. I forgot for some reason and just spend several minutes trying to figure out what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/24/2011
Free refactor tool in all versions of Visual Studio, totally cool
I have been using refactoring with C# for quite awhile, and realized that many readers may not have...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/24/2011
Free HTML 5 Curriculum for Professors and life long learners!
This is leading edge curriculum that has not been posted to the Microsoft Curriculum repository to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/19/2011
Free Contest: Do a paper design, get access to a robot and win $10,000 for the best robot!
Check out this free contest at: https://www.roboticsathome.com/ If you are at least 16 years old...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/18/2011
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
Wow, I remember wearing out a few of the K&R books, and for the old people like me you know what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/17/2011
Free Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet
Here is a cheat sheet that one of my co-workers shared with me: Dreamspark:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/14/2011
Vector2, Rectangle, and Windows Phone 7
Oh crud, the tutorial says it will take 90 minutes but is 91 pages long. Really? Sometimes I look at...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/13/2011
Simply learning Game Management: Using the Game State
If you read my blog on a regular basis, I deeply appreciate you as a reader, thank you for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/05/2011
Oddly, need to use Expression Design & also use the Windows Phone SDK Blend, they don’t play together.
I don’t know about you, but I cannot get the Ultimate version that shows up in the Windows Phone SDK...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/30/2011
Textures, Rectangle, Vector2 and comments
Still doing that static thing with images. Also my previous blog on a static image was missing...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/27/2011
XAPFest at DeVry University in Phoenix
Thank you for inviting me to the XAPFest at DeVry University in Phoenix! Here are the links that we...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/23/2011
I just installed the Windows Phone SDK, but I get the MFPlat.DLL missing message, or your emulator doesn’t work
Yeah. You installed the N version from the MSDNAA or got an N version from somewhere else, N...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/21/2011
Design Windows Phone Applications, for business or games, using free or sort of free stuff
I guess games are a business. To get started with really rapid prototyping you will need to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/20/2011
Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Placing the image in a specific point
Now you have an image with no background or alpha channel, well that’s nice. What are you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/20/2011
Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Removing an image background using Paint.net
In the previous post, I showed you how to use PowerPoint as an image editor, but what if you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/19/2011
Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Removing a background from an image using Powerpoint
You made a nice image in Paint, but it has that annoying white background in your game. You...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/19/2011
Game Design for the Imagine Cup and Windows Phone 7
Geez, got off track with the Expression Design 4 comparison to Adobe, I really want to get better at...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/19/2011
Designing WP7 Games: Making Graphics, backgrounds for your game
Oh this title just stinks. Getting over this stinking cold and my brain is still getting up to speed...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/16/2011
Game Design/Imagine Cup 2012, part 3: Player Input
Yeah, I am using the awesome tutorial from https://create.msdn.com/gamedevelopment , and what a lazy...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/16/2011
170 Free Game Audio Files, Free as in non-Exclusive, Worldwide, Royalty-Free
Wow, this is cool, FREE as in Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL), you do have to include the Ms-PL...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/15/2011
Game Design for Windows Phone and the Imagine Cup 2012, part deux
Like I said in a previous blog: The tutorial on https://create.msdn.com/gamedevelopment may be the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/15/2011
Getting started with creating Windows Phone Games for Imagine Cup, Part 1 of a bunch
So in past years, the normal approach would be for Imagine Cup students and professors to listen to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/15/2011
Using Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone
If you have followed the instructions at https://create.msdn.com/gamedevelopment, then you have...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/06/2011
Code Snippets: Examining what a Code Snippet is
Efficiency of programming allows us to spend more time designing and securing our code, as well as...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/01/2011
Code Snippets: Using Code Snippets and “Surround With…”
Code Snippets, a phrase that is similar to “templates”. You might be reading an article that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/31/2011
Setting Code Contracts in Visual Studio 2010
Continuing his great work on Software Contracts from the April 2011 issue of MSDN Magazine Dino...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/27/2011
Thinking about Angry Dolphins: Web Matrix, NOAA and Windows Phone 7
At Rio Hondo today, I gave my first Imagine Cup talk with Alice Pang (make sure to visit her blog at...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/27/2011
Project ideas for Imagine Cup and senior projects
Normally I would have posted this on my https://blogs.msdn.com/research blog, but this is just an...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/26/2011
Nokia Developer: Windows Phone?
Word on the street is that the Microsoft Nokia partnership is dead on arrival. I don’t...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/25/2011
FREE! Graphing Calculator from Microsoft for College Students
Feeling the pain and needing to buy a POS graphing calculator that you will only use for that one...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/24/2011
Free tool to fix problems on your Windows Computer from Microsoft
Click on the image below to go to a Microsoft site that could fix that problem you are having. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/24/2011
Free Professional Grade Database tool: LightSwitch
LightSwitch is a free professional grade database tool. It is an awesome way to get to your data...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/21/2011
Free: How to create applications for Azure (if you use the 30 day pass)
If you are thinking about getting started with Azure, you might want to head over to this link:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/20/2011
Link to Developer Centers on MSDN
Here is the link that links you to the links for the various data centers on the MSDN site. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/19/2011
On vacation, Encounter with a Blue Whale
On vacation this week (again) and during a Whale watching trip this video was taken. Questions:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/17/2011
Free Software for STEM students in the US
Not only is there free software through Dreamspark.com you can also get free software if you are a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/17/2011
Free Software for Students (and this is NOT a rip-off)
If you are a student (as in any student) in college you can get significant free software through...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/16/2011
Free Graphing Calculator from Microsoft: Mathematics Calculator
If you are a college student (and many high schools) you have access to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/15/2011
TouchDevelop: Creating Phone Apps on your Windows Phone 7
How do I distribute my apps that I create with the TouchDevelop scripting tool? To find out...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/14/2011
TouchDevelop: Impact on Software Engineering
If you haven’t seen TouchDevelop, a development system that runs on your Windows Phone 7. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/13/2011
DeVry Imagine Cup information
This post is for the DeVry University Imagine Cup presentation and provides the links for the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/10/2011
Developing your own Domain-Specific Language
In yesterday’s blathering I sent you off to an excellent article, at least in my opinion, Create a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/10/2011
Do you hate your compiler class? Don’t be a hater, build your own compiler
Let’s get this clear, compiler nerds are often viewed as the rock stars of the computer science...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/09/2011