http://www.torpexgames.com
Microsoft and Torpex Games announced today the release of Schizoid for Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Billed as "the most co-op game ever", Schizoid creates a new category of action gaming where teamwork equals survival and players must protect each other from waves of glowing enemies.
Available for download now, Schizoid is the first-ever Xbox LIVE Arcade title built using Microsoft's XNA Game Studio.
Microsoft's Schizoid page: click me...
Posted By:Chris Williams
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7/9/2008 8:51 AM
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As I was driving home from giving a presentation at the PDANUG last night, I got a call from David Silverlight and he reminded me about this cool new program INETA has to recognize those involved in user groups. He's written up an excellent blog about it on Community-Credit you can read http://www.community-credit.com/cs/blogs/community_credit_news/archive/2008/06/17/the-ineta-community-champion-award.aspx I know a number of you reading this help run user groups in your area and as someone who helps...
OK. I've finally seen something in Java that impressed me. It's the JAR! (Java Archive)
Most folks would know that I'm a Microsoft fan (C++, C#) and have stayed away from Java; mainly because it's more difficult to get things done (in Java) and too hard to leverage legacy code written in C++. I had always been a static linking guy because it allowed me to deliver ONE THING (just the exe) to the end user or server. Deleting the app after it has run its lifecycle is pretty easy when there is ONE...
For some reason some controls/tags within ASP.NET do not always get rendered/passed to the client.
This has happened to me on a number of occasions. It seems limited to <style> and <script> tags - but happens for both raw HTML (within the aspx designer) and dynamically created tags (eg using new HtmlGenericControl("style")...).
This is happening to controls/tags within AJAX updatepanels within, webforms and usercontrols.
Sometimes I can work around this by simply placing these...
Badly named Loading Circle PT2
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So, in my last post (http://geekswithblogs.net/cskardon/archive/2008/07/04/the-decidedly-badly-named-loadingcircle-wpf-control-pt-1.aspx), I created a square LoadingCircle UserControl, using old skool WinForms multi-threading in the code behind file, and Xamly fun on the front end..
But there were problems (of course there were), firstly, the animation, whilst it *did* move, was a very 'on/off' affair, i.e. the Ellipse...
As a followup to my previous entry on faster reflection with expression trees, I have released the source on code plex and that is where i will actively be distributing updates through.
Some noteable changes are that now you retrieve an FastProperty instance through a factory method which will cache the property for subsequent reference. Also, I have merged everything into one class because I realized I was looking at what information I needed in the wrong places. Now you can just say FastProperty<object,object>.Make()...
Posted By:Darren Kopp
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7/9/2008 2:19 AM
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I found a new video showing AJAX (Ajax.NET Professional), JavaScript and jQuery. On the Web server they are using ASP.NET. (Note: you need Silverlight for the video player)
Download video as WMV...
Had a requirement where search results should be limited to only items of a list. Naturally, I created a new Search Scope and set a rule of type Web Address to include the particular site holding the lists.
Well...it did work, but not to my expectations. What was happening was that in addition to displaying the list items, the list views were also being displayed and so were other pages in the site....DOH!
Doing a search on the net led me to this site. It was very informative, but it didn't provided...
This is one of those things where you just get a tad lazy and forget to do; hence the title of this entry. Fiddler, like a lot of other tools (i.e. Search as an example), is generally good out of the box.
So while troubleshooting a particular item today where we were only interested in one response type, rather than going through the typical diarrhea of fiddler entries, I opted for filters. Along with the “Show only HTML” option in the Filters tab below, there is also a slew of other options to...
Martin Mihaylov on the MultiscaleImage control, Tamir Khason on Visual Tree and thickness, Mike Snow on SL and JS, Donavon West on DeepZoom Obama, Video Player by David, Jesse Liberty's Styles and Templates Tutorial is Up, Frank LaVigne on Swift3D and SL, and Andy Beaulieu resolving Default.aspx being executed.
From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Maximal and minimal zoom level in the MultiscaleImage control Martin Mihaylov resolves a problem I've noticed in DZ apps ... that you either zoom the image...
What we need in ASP.NET is a change-tracking control. Whenever we modify elements on a form, it would be a good idea to display a popup for user confirmation before navigating away from the page. Right now, I've got some pretty ugly Javascript doing this.
The next version of the AJAX Control Toolkit would really kick a** if it had this control. It could also include bug fixes for the 'focus' issue with the RoundedControlExtender and TextBoxWatermarkExtender...
Something I've found is bugs in my ASPX files that refering to things that don't exist in the codebehind, and I finally learned how to make my build include compiling the file. As I understand this will do the same build process that the runtime does when viewing each page. This nant script expects the website directory to contain the fully ready website, including the binaries. The /url is the path that the website should think it's running under. The CompiledAspx directory is where it puts...
The Twin Cities Developers Guild had our kickoff/cookout this evening. We had an excellent turnout and served up a bunch of burgers and hot dogs.
Afterwards, Jason Bock gave his talk on "Writing Better Code" which went really well. Lots of good questions from the audience. Jason and I tossed a few VB vs C# barbs back and forth, which was fun.
Everyone seemed to have a good time, and we wrapped up with some giveaways and announced the speakers for the next two months (August: Rocky Lhotka -...
One of the best things about LINQ to SQL is that is really does have solid support for stored procedures. However, it's not quite as friendly as dynamic LINQ to SQL with scalar values because you can't take advantage of anonymous types. Instead you must return an actual known type. Furthermore, this can't be a primitive so you can't return string or bool directly. You also can't use a class that doesn't have a default (parameterless) constructor so that also rules out nullable types like Nullable<bool>....
I recently took the opportunity to join Headspring Systems, the premier Agile software consulting practice here in Austin, TX. I'm very excited about getting to work with an incredibly talented Headspring team and look forward to helping the company continue it's fast-paced growth! Headspring Systems www.headspringsystems.com...
One way to customize your project configuration files is to use string replacement with STR files. Technically, the STR files are for language localization, but that doesn’t exclude using them for customization. In fact, when you create a new project using Platform Builder for Windows CE 6.0, your project will contain a cebase.str for you to set your device name in.
STR files are plain text files stored in your FILES\INTLTRNS\<Local> folder. If you aren’t sure which folder you are using, open...
Surprisingly enough, Chris Love wins the Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher. I calculated the winner by counting the total number of entries first. http://GeeksWithBlogs.net/rwalker comments first, then http://www.MySoftwareStartup.com comments next. I then visited http://random.org and asked for the winning comment number. A screen capture of the winning randomly generated number is above...
After a month of owning my new laptop I've written up a series of posts 'Liam buys a new laptop' about how I made the choice of a HP 6910p laptop, what accessories I bought and my initial impressions of Vista 64-bit as an operating system.
Part 1 – Which one to buy?
Part 2 – Laptop inflation, accessories add another 50% - oops!
Part 3 – First impressions of my new Vista 64-bit development platform...
Analysts, vendors and end users alike appear united in their enthusiasm for SOA. Recently the Butler Group tells us that only 3% of organisations have rejected SOA. In a recent survey by systems integrator Griffiths Waite found that 2008 is a critical year for SOA implementation, with 15% of organisations already running SOA but a much larger 38% progressing towards it. Of the 47% still “contemplating” it, Giffiths Waite says “evidence suggests these will [start to] move into strategising and planning”....
If you live in the southeast United States, chances are you've heard of Wally McClure. You may have even met him in person. I met Wally at the Charlotte Code Camp, back in the early days before my inevitable ascension to .NET Demigod. Wally is always a lot of fun to talk listen to, so enjoy.
1. Where are you from?
I grew up in Knoxville, TN. I have a BS & MS in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech. I worked at “The Coca-Cola Company” in Atlanta, but I found that the corporate life...
The following javascript error occurs when trying to use the Telerik controls and you haven't updated your ASP.NET (2.0) web.config file correctly.
Error: 'Telerik' is undefined
To fix make sure the following lines are within the <system.web> section of your web.config file:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"...
Extreme programming is a language-independent approach to project planning and quality control which aims to lower the cost of changes in development. There is little to no up-front documentation which allows for a more flexible approach to tackle software problems. With that said there is controversy which surrounds the subject matter as these practices don't come without its drawbacks. Over the last few days I've been getting into some of the Extreme programming concepts in the book eXtreme...
