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Big Deal: First Console app using VS 11 Ultimate Beta on Windows 8
Wow, well I guess there is always that first app, usually we do a “Hello World”, but this time for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/16/2012
List of 5 questions about programing MetroRT and C++/CX or whatever
Dang it, been avoiding C++ long enough that the Win8 reintroduction of C++ is actually...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/13/2012
CompositeTransforms in MetroRT
Blah-blah Using CompositeTransitions to make an interesting look in the tablet. And yes this would...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/03/2012
The remains of the day: MetroRT XAML makes things move
XAML, making things move, is referred to as animation. If you are a follower of XNA, animation...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/02/2012
From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus
April 1, 2012 All rightie, it would appear that this is just a humorous post on April Fools, but...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/01/2012
Latest software tool found to cause gravitational abnormalities under certain conditions
April 1, 2012: An disclosed source at the headquarters of Microsoft, reported that under certain...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/01/2012
List of 1 thing in Win8, Windows 8: Playing media files
As I stated in my previous blog, App Bars and much of the documentation (read stuff I can reuse on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/29/2012
Code Camp in Southern California: Please Attend!
This is a great place to make connections to working professionals and to learn the latest...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/21/2012
Top 10 Best Practice Links for using C# with Windows 8
Check out the article at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/BR229583, which is the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/21/2012
Skype Partners with DonorsChoose.org to Bring Technology Resources to Classrooms Across the Country
(Normally I don’t just repeat stuff, I usually make comments or modifications that make no sense to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/21/2012
Slot machine, the continuing saga, Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Windows 8
I zipped up my VS 2010 C++ based Slot machine code and via skydrive put it on my Windows 8 system...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/20/2012
Slot Machine: Visual Studio 2010 using VC++, Next VS 11 Express Beta
All right, I may have written this slot machine code, however, I am not claiming it is mine, it was...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/20/2012
Really Simple and Dopey Windows 8 DirectX sample
So you are using Visual Studio 11 Beta and you are getting the idea that XNA isn’t coming back for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/20/2012
Reimagine your App on Win 8: Attend the blow out Event at Silicon Valley, Microsoft!
After months of eager anticipation, Windows 8 is finally here. To kick things off, Microsoft...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/19/2012
Yippee just wrote my Hello World XAML/C++ app, now I am an expert at WinRT!
After spending most of the last 20 years looking for the intellisense after I hit a period, the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/19/2012
Free and easy Animation design in XNA
In my previous blog, I showed you how to use a pre-built class to generate animations that move like...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/13/2012
Using Code Snippets: The real deal
So your colleagues send out an email requesting information on how you manage code snippets and I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/06/2012
Delegates of Lambda, Func, in a simple way for C# groupies
One of my colleagues met a goal I have often have strived to accomplish without success, Bruno has...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/05/2012
Datadog? What in the heck is datadog and is it part of that new OS?
Datadog? I am at SIGSCE and I just learned about something called datadog. So what is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/02/2012
Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11: Awesome
If you download and install Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 you will find these tools totally...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/01/2012
10 fresh links about Silverlight 5, Is Silverlight 5 Dead? Really?
Michael Crump, find out more about Michael at his profile:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/27/2012
UFOs and MUD and Software and beyond, Funday Sunday!
From time to time I get a “bug” to look into the past history of software and the UFO things that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/26/2012
Lab: Move an object using Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone Part 2
In the previous blog:Lab: Move an object using Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone Part 1 We...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/25/2012
Lab: Move an object using Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone Part 1
Charles Petzold free eBook is great, except that it doesn’t cover the use of Sliverlight-XNA...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/23/2012
Free game to learn how to use Office and compete with your friends
An interesting idea from one of the Microsoft Research Partners is Ribbon Hero 2. Clippy comes...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/22/2012
5 more ideas on how to make money off of Azure
[The following material is from https://blogs.msdn.com/devschool, if you are viewing this from...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/22/2012
Silverlight is dead, long live Silverlight 5: TrickPlay or Double your speed
If you have watched any of my videos, then being able to speed them up is a great idea, now if there...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/17/2012
Camels, XAML and Silverlight is dead? Long live Silverlight 5!
Silverlight is dead, but Scott Guthrie on Dec. 2, 2010, not too long ago, stated the following and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/15/2012
Virtualization is virtually important for your developer virtual skills, really
Ok, why should you know about virtualization as a developer? Especially if you are a game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/14/2012
Valentine on the cheap: Use Publisher to print out a valentine’s card
Let’s face it, buying a real Hallmark card can be painful: Drive to the Hallmark store Smell the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/11/2012
5 Ways To Make Money with the Cloud!
Number 1 with a bullet! Read Bruno Terkaly excellent article about how the Microsoft Azure Cloud...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/11/2012
Colliding with Expression Design to Expression Blend to WP7 and Kinect Part 1 of 3 or so
This is a three part series, maybe a little longer, who knows. I would if I did any...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/10/2012
HTML 5: Alice Pang, Queen of HTML 5 shows you how to cheat at HTML 5?!
Alice Pang is trying to make a name for herself in the world of blogging, which is a sad thing for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/09/2012
How to become a technical evangelist
This is an important job for many companies and Alice has written a great blog on how to become one,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/08/2012