Michael B. McLaughlin

This blog post is a brief follow up to my What’s New in Graphics and Game Development in Visual Studio 2013 post on the MVP Award blog. While writing that…

Article Source: https://geekswithblogs.net/charliemott Tracking the count of TODO.aspx)’s in your solution can be used for the following:

I’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I…

Last updated: 2012-02-14 This is a big post – over ~12200~ 16600 words – and so I’ve decided to make it available as a PDF download, which you can get…

Last updated: 2012-02-14 This is a big post – over ~12200~ 16600 words – and so I’ve decided to make it available as a PDF download, which you can get…

A little more than three months ago, Microsoft hosted the //build/ conference at which they unveiled the upcoming version of Windows (commonly called…

(Warning: This is semi-advanced stuff. It’s not hard, per se, but it involves editing important project files manually, which, if done wrong, can render…

One thing I’ve always enjoyed in Silverlight/WPF are the easing functions ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee308751.aspx ). The easing functions…

I’ve been slowly creating a new WP7 game over these past few months. In the process, I began experimenting with Dxt compression. It’s a very nice feature,…

I about how, with XNA and VB becoming a supported scenario, I was starting down the road to learning VB. Just a brief update on that. If you ever need to…

For anybody who might have missed the news, XNA is coming to Visual Basic. I’ll admit that my first reaction was to groan and grumble and mumble. But this…

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of drawing. A lot of it has been creating sprite animations for XNA projects. From many years of using it, I work primarily…

Bad accelerometer controls kill otherwise good games. I decided to try to do something about it. So I create an XNA GameComponent called…

There are several things any XNA developer should know/consider when coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform. This post assumes you are familiar with the…

(This is my first review as a part of the GeeksWithBlogs.net Influencers program. It’s a program in which I (and the others who have been selected for it)…

I remember being scared of render targets when I first started with XNA. They seemed like weird magic and I didn’t understand them at all. There’s nothing…

Most XNA programmers are concerned about generating garbage. More specifically about allocating GC-managed memory (GC stands for “garbage collector” and…

Many months ago I came across an interesting Microsoft website, the TechNet Wiki, when I was looking for information about something that I can’t even…

Anyone developing for XBLIG knows (or should know) that guitar controllers feedback data on certain analog GamePad inputs. This is why the cautions…

Today (well, yesterday now) was Thanksgiving here in the U.S. In addition to doing my traditional family things (making and eating a large,…

I just got my first WP7 (an LG Quantum) about ten hours ago. Since then I’ve explored it, played games on it, registered it as a dev phone, deployed my…

Update 1 (Sept. 17, 2010): While the part below about using SLSvcUtil.exe to generate the service reference undoubtedly still works, it is no longer…

This is going to be more of a high-level post. But it’s important, especially for my fellow XBLIG developers who are now targeting WP7, since it…