April 2009 Entries

XNA on the Micro Framework? Well, a start…

This month I have been working hard at providing XNA support for the Micro Framework. Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these things. I entered another contest, Dream, Build, Play, where you or a team write a game for some cool prizes. When I was reading through the XNA documentation and I was thinking that the paradigm of writing games fits some embedded projects a lot better than WPF that the Micro Framework is using now. Perhaps not for all applications, but for my project is felt like...
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An Update to the Grommet Library

I have added another release to the Grommet Library (an extension to the .NET Micro Framework). This release adds default comparers to OrderBy and ThenBy to allow the use of the orderby C# keyword. The code sample from the previous post can now be simplified with the orderby keyword: var feedsToUpdate = from feed in feedList orderby ((RssFeed)feed).LastUpdate descending, ((RssFeed)feed).Name where ((RssFeed)feed).LastUpdate > new DateTime(2009, 03, 20) select (((RssFeed)feed).Name); Also, this...
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