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Great Expression Design: A Simple Compass Control
Christine L_ really knocked it out of the park with their “a Simple Compass Control”. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/07/2012
5 top things that work together: Kinect, Windows Phone 7, Expression Design, Expression Blend and Visual Studio
Hey Clint Eastwood said Detroit is showing us how it can be done on that Bowl Game last Sunday, we...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/07/2012
Simply Dragging in WPF, WP7 Silverlight and Silverlight 5
Gee, I just want to drag an ellipse in WPF or Silverlight 5 and all of the blogs/technical articles...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/06/2012
Speech Recognition using Visual Studio: Determining the BNA
My original title was Stochastic Determination of BNA, but seriously who would read...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/06/2012
CPSLO: Saturday info
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202938(v=vs.92).aspx
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/04/2012
Programming Office 2010 using Visual Studio (not VBA): Burn before reading
See the previous blog: Office 2010: C#, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Burn before...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/03/2012
Office 2010: C# and Office! Secret stuff. Strictly burn before reading
This information is strictly code level: Burn before reading (for translators the previous phrase...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/01/2012
Academic pricing for Office, $99.95: As a CS Student why should you buy MS Office?
Since my numbers are pretty good this month, I thought that I would write about something that is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/30/2012
Imagine Grant announced! Good work LifeLens!
Check out these Grant announcements, good job LifeLens! The Imagine Cup Blog The Citizenship Blog...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/27/2012
Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML
In a previous blog I discussed using free for commercial and non-commercial use Office ClipArt, in...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/26/2012
Lambda, Lambdee, Lambduh: Methodically Anonymous
In the past blog: https://bit.ly/csharpdelegatessimply Now let’s get methodically anonymous, see,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/25/2012
Lamda, Lamdee, Lamduh: Delegate first and then do the Lambda
So you take your Java classes, you take your C++ classes and you take that data class, then you take...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/24/2012
Building software for a ship: Explanation for the Costa Concordia blogs
Some questions have come up about the my several blogs using the Costa Concordia disaster as a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/23/2012
Expression Blend: I made a copy of a UserControl and now it throws an error
Don’t you hate it when you are going to do a simple thing like copy a UserControl and then it...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/22/2012
Valentines? Cute Silverlight project download and make a comment
Christine has made a very cute little app, a true joy considering the way that most of the Lords of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/21/2012
Free software with registration! WHY?
You download Windows Phone Express or whatever stupid name it attached with the Visual Studio...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/21/2012
Free: Links to APIs and information about SkyDrive
Doing some research on how to build an app that uses Skydrive, think leaderboard for games,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/19/2012
USC: Totally cool index of How-To for Windows Phone 7
Not being terribly creative today, out at USC I discovered that there was a complete how-to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/18/2012
Costa Concordia: Software Quality Engineer Certification
So the Bridge Crew may have made an error, we don’t know yet. Do we know if the software on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/18/2012
Chrome flunks the National Vulnerability Database analysis
Here is the security data for the browsers. On 1/17/2012 Chrome flunks again. Note the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/17/2012
Kinect: Curriculum for the classroom
In case you are a high school teacher you might want to download this free curriculum:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/17/2012
Costa Concordia: Failure Mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
Let’s consider a problem: You are designing a system and have to do a failure mode analysis, how do...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/17/2012
Costa Concordia: Human in the control loop
Well we don’t know the cause of the Costa Concordia’s sinking yet, but there is some strong news...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/16/2012
Kinect: What the Kinect can do in the classroom
Use Xbox 360, Kinect™ for Xbox 360 and Kinect Adventures or Kinect Sports to generate classroom...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/13/2012
Why to develop for the Windows Phone? See this video for the “Smoke”
Interesting video, and yes, I am a Microsoft Fanboy, but this is pretty revealing: ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/13/2012
Free Music, Sound Effects, Sprites for Game Design
If you want to do some work, you can reuse the sounds from existing games on the AppHub. In...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/12/2012
VC++ Based game: What?!
Here is an interesting discussion of game design using C++, very nice:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/11/2012
Creating a Model: Games are more realistic if the play is modeled correctly
Games are dependent on probability, there are games that don’t use probability or chance, but in...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/11/2012
Tombstone territory: Preparing the App.XAML.CS for Tombstoning
If you looked at the code for the sdkExcecutionModelCS uses a View Model. The code sample does a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/10/2012
Tombstone Territory: XNA Tombstoning
Well the Ace WhipperSnapper, Kenny Spade, send me an email with an attachment that contained a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/09/2012
Tiled, Toasted & Raw? Was it that New Year’s party or Azure with WP7? You Decide
I will admit it, I didn’t do much on News Year Eve, but there have been other News Year Eve night...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/09/2012
Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
Again with the whole tombstoning thing. In Arizona there is a city by the name of Tombstone,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/09/2012
Social Game is the thane: Quickly implementing Pushy Phone Notifications
While watching MacBeth, MacBeth is a “thane”, what is that? Is it like being a vice president...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/06/2012
Oh why? You try stuff and it doesn’t work
I am very excited about the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games, but was unable to get the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/06/2012
Social Games on da Phone: Microsoft Identity Foundation
In the 1960s hippies spent a lot of time trying to determine who there really were. Like the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/06/2012
Social WP7 Game: Isolated storage and notification
As said in MacBeth (still working on the video): It [life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/05/2012
Social Games Part Bazillion of Katrillion: Make Phone App Social
I have been watching MacBeth with Patrick Stewart as MacBeth, and I kind of get it, but it is one of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/05/2012
Fix for failed certification: Non Music + Videos Hub Applications That Play Media
Oh this one seemed really hard, and I haven’t got the feedback from this failed certification...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/04/2012
Speed test: IE 9 Versus Chrome
Versions Chrome version: Chrome, v. 16.0.912.63 m (straight download no add-ons) IE 9 version:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/03/2012
Start the year off by reading about tombstoning on the windows phone 7
Tombstone, tombstoning. It is somewhat difficult to get tombstoning right, and this article is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/01/2012
A glossary of gestures for the Windows Phone user
If you are new to the windows phone, or are writing a specification for a product, you may want to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/31/2011