Woot! I’ve got it, the new preview release of Windows Phone 8.1. Since the announcements at Build where they introduced the next generation of apps for…

For the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise…

There where 25 MMOG's shown at E3 this year. Here is a list of them. http://www.mmogchart.com/E32005.html And to think I am considering developing my next…

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…

The top 10 PC games sold for June are: 1. Battlefield 2 2. Guild Wars 3. World of Warcraft the rest... http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news\index.php?stor…

You can find my implementation of an MVVM TreeView model for WPF on github. Link: https://github.com/rob-blackbourn/JetBlack.WpfTreeView.

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…

\[Note:\] 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…

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 on the BizTalk Server blog site. This is advanced notice, given that this…

Testing Guide 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…

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…

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)…

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…

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/11/17/stephen-hawkin…

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…

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…

Well, I’m posting this because during the last week three different people in three completly different environments asked me why is Bluetooth called…

\The concepts in this article apply to .NET 1.1 and 3.0 as well, but my links below are for 2.0. From what I found recently, there are lots of sites that…