App Hub Content Update Links and Resources(www.virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 1 year, 1 month ago

The App Hub Teams have released some updated content on the Educational Content Section. These updates are no samples, but are a list of links and resources for a selection of topics around the Windows Phone 7 (Some of it might even relate to development on the Xbox or Windows Platform with XNA). Each Section contains links and resources to general information, coding and design. read more...

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LightSwitch Beta 2 Extensibility Cookbook(www.virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 1 year, 2 months ago

The Visual Studio LightSwitch team have released a simple cookbook that will help you extend the LightSwitch system. read more...

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Windows Phone from Scratch(www.virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 1 year, 2 months ago

The App Hub site has released some more education content, this time it is for Windows Phone 7 Development. The article links to a large collection of mini Tutorials that we help you get started with Windows Phone Development, these include Data Binding, Behaviours and MVVM. read more...

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WPF DockPanel Menu and Status Panel(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 3 years, 1 month ago

Going through the forums today I found a small post where a user was having trouble with the DockPanel, Menu, and a StatusBar. The Developer was trying to add a Menu to the top of the application and a Status Bar to the bottom, but what was happening was that the Status bar was appearing in the Centre of the application. read more...

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WPF Interface Design - GridSplitter(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 3 years, 1 month ago

The first thing I needed to do was to get used to the design of the Interface and its tools. One thing that I would need would be a way to break up the main interface and allow the user to expand the different sections of the display depending on their preference. For this I have started to look at the GridSplitter control. I thought I would post about the process to add the GridSplitter to the interface. read more...

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Microsoft Releases XNA Game Studio 3.0(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 3 years, 6 months ago

It is finally that time, Microsoft have released the next edition of XNA Game Studio. read more...

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Introducing the New Community Manager(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 3 years, 9 months ago

For years now we have had the privilege of having the support of David Weller as our Community Manager for all things Managed DirectX and then XNA, but as David had to leave us to pursue other ventures we have been left without a conduit into the Microsoft World. Today the XNA Blog has Introduced the New Community Manager for the XNA Systems. read more...

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Kollectiv has Been Released(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 3 years, 9 months ago

Kollectiv - A puzzle game written in C# using microsofts XNA Framework. This is an addicting cross between tetris and bejeweled and is playable via mouse, keyboard or gamepad (only on the XBOX 360). read more...

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Using Visual Studio Code Snippets for XNA Development(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 2 months ago

On the XNA IRC Channel this morning someone asked a question on how to use the Visual Studio Code snippets. I have been using these snippets for a long time, not normally for XNA but for other applications. But when the question popped up I thought I would put something together for the XNA Development world, in some cases the snippets functions could assist us with code that we seem to type all of the time. read more...

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Very Silly Games(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 4 months ago

Rob Miles has put together a new Web Site called VerySillyGames, with this site he plans to put together a collection of Very Silly Games that you can download that will include the full Source code. read more...

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New Content on the XNA Creators Site(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 4 months ago

Microsoft has released a new batch of Updated and New Content on the Creators Site, we have also been informed that there will be more released each Thursday for the next 3 weeks. If you have any questions or suggestions on Content you can post in the Content Forums on the Creators Site. read more...

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Tutorial Series - Creating a Game Engine in XNA(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 4 months ago

RoeCode over at Running on Empty has started a series of Articles that go through the process of creating a Game Engine using the XNA Framework. In this first article he starts of with the base classes to get the program running, this includes some helper classes that utilize the XNA Storage system for saving the game settings. read more...

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Use your Xbox 360 Controller in Powerpoint(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 4 months ago

Now here is a different use of the Xbox 360 Controller (With the help of the XNA Framework), Bruno has put together a simple office plug in for power point that will allow the user to use the Xbox 360 controller to control his presentations. read more...

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Xbox 360 Controller Component for Windows and WPF Applications(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 4 months ago

In my last post I talked about an Addin for Powerpoint that allowed you to use your Xbox 360 Controller to control the presentation. The addin uses a small component that wraps around the XNA Frameworks Gamepad class that allow the controller to be used inside any windows or WPF Application. read more...

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XNA Toolkit on Codeplex(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 5 months ago

The XNA Toolkit project on Codeplex has had it's first release, included in this release are several camera components, as well as audio and others. read more...

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XNA Dream Build Play Sample Entry for Silicon Minds(virtualrealm.com.au)

submitted by Mykre(830) 4 years, 5 months ago

The guys from the Microsoft Research group have released a sample entry for the Dream Build Play warm up Comp "Silicon Minds". This sample goes through the basics of what the judges are looking for, for those who are entering please have a look at this as it may help you get a foot in the door. read more...

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