Coding4Fun Pushing the .NET Envelope
Feb 21, 2007
Coding4Fun is off the hook lately! Check out these great apps that are pushing the envelope in fun and cool ways Scott Hanselman’s Controlling a Microbric Viper Robot using Windows PowerShell Logo Yeah,PowerShell logo embedded into a Windows Form that can programatically control Robots. (Video demo) Video: Programming Unreal Tournament AI bots Andy Sterland, James Lissiak, and Tom Randell .NET Powered Unreal Tournament AI Bots To show off how easy it is to program Unreal Tournament bots, I created my own “bot” which searches for a player called Dan and kills him on-site.…more
Should Coding4Fun be available through a blog only?
Jan 26, 2007
If you’re a Coding4Fun reader, please respond! Earlier this week, I asked our Coding4Fun authors what they thought about moving Coding4Fun to being fully blog-based a la Engadget, Make, etc. Many Coding4Fun readers don’t know this, but Coding4Fun actually uses http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/ as its back-end blog engine and the MSDN presence at http:///msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/ is really a “skin” if you will of that engine. Rather than having two sites, we’re considering on moving solely to http://blogs.…more
Personal Note to Joystiq: There is no Coding4Fun Wii60 Conspiracy
Dec 20, 2006
Some of you may have seen the recent Joystiq post “MS gift guide suggests Wii controller”, also linked to here and here quoted below. _Ever since Peter Moore made his famous statement ostensibly _[_encouraging people to buy a Nintendo Wii_](http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/11/microsoft-befriends-nintendo-in-fight-vs-sony/)_, the _[_Wii60_](http://www.wii60.com/)_ ideal of Nintendo/Microsoft solidarity has become something of a phenomenon. The idea of the the two companies cooperating against Sony has persisted despite few public signs of any sort of alliance.…more
Announcing Microsoft Robotics Studio RTM
Dec 13, 2006
Congratulations to the Microsoft Robotics Studio team for RTM’ing! * Non-Commercial Use: Robotics Studio is available for free to download * Commercial License: For commercial applications or business operations, you must purchase a commercial license, available for online purchase for $399. More information on Coding4Fun via Clint or the Robotics Studio Home Page
XNA Game Studio Express RTM'd - Create Pong on your Xbox
Dec 11, 2006
Congratulations to the XNA team for getting XNA Game Studio Express out the door! You can Download Game Studio Express here Clint has a good summary on the Coding4Fun blog XNA Blog Announcement Details To get you started, Coding4Fun’s ZMan has a how-to article on building your firstXNA game, Pong, err, TinyTennis. **XNA Party Tonight (Monday Dec 11th) **Anyone and everyone is invited to the XNA Open House party tonight, in Building E from 6-8pm PST.…more
Holiday Season on Coding4Fun!
Dec 07, 2006
Big props to Brian Peek and Clint Rutkas for some great Coding4Fun holiday content! ** How to create your own Animated Musical Holiday Light Show** Ever** **wondered how to create those animated musical holiday light shows that you’ve seen on YouTube? Now you can with this step-by-step article that shows how to build a .NET animated musical show and be the envy of your neighbors! Coding4Fun Holiday Gift Guide 2006 Looking for the perfect present for programmers?…more
Successfully Installed Windows Vista Ultimate
Nov 16, 2006
As a dogfooder who tried Windows the Vista Beta, man has this product come a long way. Kudos to the Windows team for dramatically improving just about everything in the product. Here’s some key things to remember: Backup your files - Always good advice, but don’t forget to export your IE Favorites and your OPML blog roll from your favorite blog reader before starting. My PC: Dell XPS M170 (pre dual-core), 2GB RAM, 80 GB Hard drive.…more
Virtual Earth 3D Launched
Nov 10, 2006
I’ve been having lots of fun navigating the Virtual Earth 3D world, kudos to them for building a fun, free service! As Clint posted on the Coding4Fun Home page, it’s literally two lines of code to control Virtual Earth 3D. Very cool.
Visual Studio Express - Happy One Year Anniversary!
Nov 07, 2006
Updated to include the new SkinCraft Light free control (see below) and the correct RTM Express download count which is actually 7.5 million! sniff, sniff, they grow up so quickly! One year ago today, Steve Ballmer was on-stage announcing our official launch of Visual Studio Express to the world…it seems like just yesterday! Since launch, we’ve had over 6.8 7.5 million completed Express downloads! New Benefits for Registered Express Customers…more
Coding4Fun v2 Update: Final Designs
Oct 19, 2006
Thanks again to the 160+ of you who voted on the Coding4Fun redesign! As you know, the Glass design took first place, but many of you loved (and even emailed me) about Metal’s icons and I liked them too and the team at Personify Design has been working on incorporating these two together into the final (for now) designs below: This is what the home page will look like (roughly), it’s Vista + Metal icons and some of the Orange feedback thrown in too…more