TechTwaddle

Today I came across this web service called which serves up word definitions from various dictionary databases, so I wrote up a quick windows phone 7 app…

I was working on an application at work when I needed to figure out a really trivial case, well, trivial in theory at least. All I wanted to know was if a…

htc-hd2 A couple of weeks ago I went out and bought myself a HTC HD2. Yes, the 4.3inch monster running windows mobile, probably the best windows mobile…

In part 1 of this series we saw how we can make the marble move towards the click point, with a fixed speed. In this post we’ll see, first, how to get rid…

Before you continue reading this post, a suggestion; if you haven’t read “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” by Charles Petzold, go read it. Now. If you…

Well, yesterday night I was watching a tutorial on XNA when I came across this neat little trick. It was a simple XNA application with a Windows Phone…

Unless you've been living in the caves of Lascaux for the past couple of days, you probably know what's happening in the world of Windows Phone. Microsoft…

Previously - Fun with menus - Part I A few days back I set about trying to get radio items into menus. This is helpful if you want only one of the items…

So this weekend I got some time to push Minesweeper forward. You can now play a full game. Now that the basic game is up and running work needs to be done…

While working on a utility project today, I stumbled upon wanting to embed an executable inside another executable. Sounds fun doesn't it? And what is…

Hey there! If you are wondering what I was upto in the last couple of days, well, here it is. A few years back I had written Minesweeper as a project in…

I was browsing through some code when I came across a line of code which said: CloseHandle( CreateThread(NULL, 0, PeculiarThreadProc, NULL, 0, NULL) );…

If you are following this blog then you probably know that I have been itching to do some sort of a simple game. In this post I will explain the bare…

Hi there! What do get when you combine this and this? Well, maybe a game called Crash Marbles?;) Anyways, game is still pretty far off but here is a video…

You could sure use some mouse input with the marbles. Remove the timer stuff from the DDEX3 program that we modified and add handling for WM\LBUTTONDOWN,…

The code for colliding marbles is built on top of earlier changes to the DDEX3 sample. Look here, here and here for more information. There are a few…

Hi there! The marbles finally collide and collide they do! (: I came across this thread, where Professor Fu-Kwun Hwang has a nice applet on collisions. If…

Let me paste the code for ProcessViewerDlgProc function, and then we will see how each part works. Here is the code:

Well, back from work and I was sitting idle. I thought the first screen of my application looks a bit stale really, so, I decided to add a small picture…

So now our program displays the system width and height in a Message box. Let us see how this message box evolves into a Dialog box.

Ok now that we have our basic application up and running, lets make some changes. First, I want to change the right soft key from "HELP" to "Menu",…

Time to do some actual work. As the title suggests, I will be creating a simple UI application for windows mobile 6 professional device using visual…