Building games based on Silverlight and Expressions
Building games for everyone, especially beginning programmers.
Author: Sam Stokes
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Using Data, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 4)
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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/28/2011
Silverlight Free Tutorial Series
I am not writing this one, Scott Guthrie wrote a series of tutorials, and as far as I can tell it...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Routed events, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 3)
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Enhancing the UR, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 2)
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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/26/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Laying out the UI, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 1)
If you like to take exams, and who doesn’t? This would be a good first exam to take. To...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/25/2011
Silverlight is dead, so says Dan Wahlin
Dan also says the Moon is made of cheese and that HTML 5 is ready for Prime Time. Ummm, must...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/22/2011
Free Silverlight 5: HTML 5, a comparison
The blog Eternal Coding does an excellent job of comparing Silverlight 5 versus HTML 5. Of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/20/2011
Free Silverlight: HTML 5
If you are doing Silverlight you are likely thinking about HTML 5, here is a great introduction from...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/18/2011
People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often!
Hey yo, let’s go! Hey! Yo! Let’s! Go! It’s time to take a look at the Imagine Cup...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/12/2011
A future game machine, try it now for free!
What if there was an operating system that was built brand new and this O/S has an architecture that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/08/2011
HTML 5: Hot Stuff!
HTML 5, Windows 7, Windows 2008 and future version of Windows Operating System, what is the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/07/2011
Zynga: So you want to make millions building the next Zynga
You have secretly played Farmville, getting your online friends to join you in the game (making sure...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/05/2011
Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper
So if I use the word excellent in the title that usually means that I am NOT talking about my...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/30/2011
Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight)
Many game types use drag and drop, shape selection, memory, as well as other learning games, also...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/21/2011
Silverlight 5 and HTML 5
A paper that was just posted comparing Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 has just been posted:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
Free video on the new stuff in Silverlight 5
This is a long video, and if you are good at speaking and listening to English, then consider...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/14/2011
Silverlight 5: Extending the Trusted Application model to the browser and HTML 5
First order of business, begging you to sign up for the free Azure 30 Day pass: PLEEEZE sign up for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/12/2011
Click, Click and Click again in Silverlight 5! Check out FREE 30 day Azure pass!
So you want to be about to count your clicks, you can now in Silverlight 5! This means that for old...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
Free: Azure 30 day pass, please sign up, if you signed up using the other number, do it again with the new one. Free
My manager would really like for you to use this free Azure Account. Seriously. No...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
Silverlight design: Silverlight 5 Overview
What is new in Silverlight 5? XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging Implicit data...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
XAML and SoundPlayer
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has 3 classes that allow you to use multimedia in your...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/08/2011
3-D Drawing Surface, new in Silverlight 5 Beta
Link: What's New in Silverlight 5 Beta The big one for many people is the ability to be able to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/08/2011
Measurement the network path quality experience with Xbox 360 Players
Network Path Quality of Service (QoS) is difficult to measure with peer to peer games like many of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/06/2011
Silverlight games: Crayon Cannon still one of the best, but not for the reason you think
Crayon cannon, the last remains of the very successful but now dead Popfly experiment. This...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/04/2011
NUI Using Silverlight
Ok, what would NUI using Silverlight look like. Just curious, any ideas? Anyone? I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/03/2011
Make money with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
Jeff Weber, creator of Krashlander, FarSeer physics goes over how much money he has made from...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/31/2011
Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 and XNA development? Supported!
What? Visual Basic can now be used to develop on the Windows Phone 7! I wonder if Alfred...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/26/2011
Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
Skipping over my usual blah Apple is not secure, blah blah, Chrome is the most insecure browser...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/25/2011
Online Game Culture: Detailed look at Everquest, from a woman’s POV
As you learn more about online game design, games like Everquest seem to get it right, but others...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/23/2011
Do game designers need to worry about privacy, privacy by design? 游戏设计师需要担心隐私，私隐的设计吗？
Privacy: Do game designers need to worry about privacy? Yes Privacy by Design (Very high level)...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/20/2011
Is it safe to use this Quake port to HTML5? (它是安全地使用此地震端口，以 HTML5 吗?)
One of my skip level managers, Mark, brings up an interesting story about his youth and how he...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/20/2011
WebGL: An insecure standard, seriously, don’t use this right now (WebGL： 不安全的标准，严重的是，不要使用此现在)
When building games you need to be aware of causing your end users to be put in a condition of risk....
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/19/2011
Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight
Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight: OMG has Microsoft got...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/16/2011
Free Silverlight 4 training kit
Oh seriously, Silverlight 5 is out, but you can use the mature Silverlight 4 Training kit to get up...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/13/2011
Silverlight 5 and Free Kinect SDK?
Is it possible to connect Kinect with Silverlight? I haven’t tried it yet, but I just had the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/12/2011
Silverlight game resource: Where are the Awesome Web Site(s)
Hey, where are the awesome web sites using Silverlight 5 3-D? Ok, it’s beta, but come on,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
Silverlight 5 Games: Best in Class
Digging into Silverlight based Games. So here are some blogs I have read about Sliverlight 5: Andy...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2011
HTML 5: How to use the canvas
Canvas seems to be a big deal with HTML 5, and quite rightly so, canvas is an important part of game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2011
XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games
If you need Free sounds, music, 3D Graphics or 2D graphics, then you need to get these game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator
If you don’t have access to a Windows Phone 7, it is difficult to figure out how to make a game that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/02/2011
Great video on designing Silverlight Games
This is a worthwhile video on Channel 9 on designing Silverlight games:
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/29/2011
HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted?
HTML 5 Specifications current as of April 27, 2011 (the day this blog is posted) can be found at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
Silverlight game design review: Clear Breeze Design
I admit it, I am a lazy programmer. What can I say, if I find someone else that does a good...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011