Well, a hit game maybe not but an award winning game. Rocketbowl was produce with a few developers and a low budget. Goes to prove the small guy can still write a game.

the rest... http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news\index.php?story=6037

You can find my implementation of an MVVM TreeView model for WPF on github.

The first thing you need to prepare when creating a 2D game in Managed DirectX is the device. The Direct3D device is what you will be using to render all of your objects to the screen. It manages a…

\[Note:\] The assumption is being made that previous tutorials have already been completed and that a project is available and in a state to make the changes to be laid out in the current tutorial.…

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 on the BizTalk Server blog site. This is advanced notice, given that this new version will ship six months after the…

Here is a link to a Testing Guide: http://www.eitoolkit.com/tools/implementation/build/testing\guide.doc

I just got back from a business trip and sitting there on the counter was a copy of my latest book from Wrox! This book (my 20th) is titled Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX. This was a fun book and I …

Presentation by Anders Hejlsberg. It is 10 years later since they started C# C# 1.0 was about introducing the general concept of managed code. C# 2.0 was about finishing C# 1.0 but didn't have time…

SQL server high availability comes in 2 basic categories. 1) Clustering using a SAN drive and multiple physical servers attached to the disk storage 2) Stand alone equipment acting in parallel A SA…

Well I’ve seen so many 10 reasons to date a geek that I thought I would go with the opposite, having dated a few in the past! Share the knowledge so to speak! Bear in mind that I am also a geek so …

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year:

Not sure when this took effect, but a simple public facing web application we wrote using jQuery.ajax for doing our form posts nicely started not working on iOS devices. The reports came in occasio…

This is part 1 of what I intend to be something of a recurring theme: how to avoid the use of dynamic controls in ASP.NET.

My First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the result of Northwind Customer table:

Well, I’m posting this because during the last week three different people in three completly different environments asked me why is Bluetooth called “Bluetooth”. Why not Goldentooth? 🙂 Why not Bl…

\The concepts in this article apply to .NET 1.1 and 3.0 as well, but my links below are for 2.0.

I’ve been thinking a lot about extension methods lately, and I must admit I both love them and hate them. They are a lot like sugar, they taste so nice and sweet, but they’ll rot your teeth if you …

Once again we delve into the world of C# Fundamentals. Those hints and gotchas that tend to bite folks newer to the language. Today I take another look about the differences between const and reado…

C# is a wonderful language for modern programming. While everything in C# has a reason and a place, occasionally, there are things that can be confusing for a developer who isn’t aware of what is h…