Coding4Fun Talk at TechEd

At TechEd this year, I gave what can only be described as an overly ambitious talk given I only had 45 minutes:

Coding4Fun: The Secrets to Programming YouTube, iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Windows Vista Peer-to-Peer APIs, and Even World of Warcraft

I say overly ambitious as YouTube, Vista P2P, and Warcraft could easily have been dedicated 75 minute sessions so covering all of them enough to be meaningful in 45 minutes was....a challenge. As promised, here's a quick recap of my slides and code. The full slide deck can be found here, and thanks everyone for showing up!

 

iTunes

• Demo project shows using the iTunes COM library to play, pause, move backwards and forwards through tracks, and how to search your iTunes music collection
• Download: Code in VB and C#

 

Peer-to-Peer using the Coding4Fun P2P Toolkit

The Coding4Fun P2P Toolkit includes samples that show off sharing images, files, audio, video and of course chat applications.

Download: Install the Toolkit as it includes code samples in VB, C#, Windows Forms, and WPF.

 

 

World of Warcraft

• The first WOW demo, WriteData, showed how .NET applications can share information with a Lua AddOn by updating an AddOns files or its saved variables. It effectively uses an AddOn's saved variables as a "communication bridge" that a .NET application can read or write to. The challenge here is that if you make a change to the saved variables, they will not be picked up by Warcraft until you reload the UI so it isn't an "instant" communication bridge.
• The second WOW demo was where I showed AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft, which is a sweet (if I may say so myself) example of what you can do with the Visual Studio Shell to build a custom IDE for *anything*, including World of Warcraft. In the demo (you can see almost the same demo given at TechEd Europe), I show how to capture the PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED and COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED (the new 2.4 combat log) events. If the target changed, the code examines the level of the target and changes a Texture based on whether it's a lower, same, or higher level than me. For the combat log events, If there are multiple kill events within 15 seconds, it'll play some Halo audio clips.
• Download: AddOn Studio sample projects

 

 

Resources

• InnerTube Demo – Coming Soon!
• iTunes COM SDK (Library ships with iTunes)
• Zune DB API (ships with Zune), tutorial available here
• ffmpeg - The Swiss army knife of media format conversion 
• YouTube API
• Coding4Fun P2P Toolkit
• AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft
• Halo Game sounds
• World of Warcraft Programming Book
• Channel 9 
• Coding4Fun Book – Coming Soon, Pre-order now!
• Coding4Fun Site

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2008
  PingBack from http://www.worldofwarcraft-news.com/wow/coding4fun-talk-at-teched/

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2008
  You gave a killer presentation, Dan.   It was one of the few at Tech Ed that made me want to cut out early, go back to my hotel room, and start coding!

• Anonymous
  June 12, 2008
  Thanks man, much appreciated :)

• Anonymous
  June 14, 2008
  Echoing John's comments above. I thought you were among the top 5 presenters I saw in both Tech Ed weeks, Dan: you were fluid, well-prepared, and brought super-interesting material. Nice work. Your demos had a lot of practical applications for people working in screen scraping/archiving scenarios, as we are.   So: when and where are you presenting next? PDC? Tech Ed 2009? I'd love to see what you could do with an hour and a half.