Articles having tag: CSHARP

Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF...

Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework

By Greg Duncan

Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them...

Put down the measuring tape. Using the Kinect to find your height

By Greg Duncan

When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with an interactive, themed for the park, height measurement...

From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app's journey

By Greg Duncan

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky'sVisual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one.With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port...

"Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking"

By Greg Duncan

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library)Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect...

Building Battling Bots with DumbBots.Net

By Greg Duncan

Today's project was one that I just happened across and I thought kind of cool, I mean what's more fun than programming bots to hunt down a kill each other? (Answer: Playing with the source of the project that lets you program bots to hunt down and kill each...

32feet.NET, Bluetooth and .Net Gadgeteer

By Greg Duncan

For our Hardware Friday we're going to mix in some Bluetooth and WPF in our .Net Gadgeteer world...Controlling a Gadgeteer device using Bluetooth Module and 32feet.NET libraryIn this post, I'll show how to send messages to aGHI Bluetooth modulefrom a PC...

Amazon Product Advertising API SOAP Namespace Changes

By Rick Strahl

About two months ago (twowards the end of February 2012 I think) Amazon decided to change the namespace of the Product Advertising API. The error that would come up was:<ItemSearchResponse xmlns='http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01'>...

Getting lost and found with the C# Maze Generator and Solver

By Greg Duncan

Today's project harkens back to days when we used to love mazes... (Okay, I still do, but that's besides the point).C# Maze Generator and SolverIntroductionThis demo creates and solves mazes using the Breadth-First and Depth-First searches. It can be very useful...

Making Mayhem with Volume Control

Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expand from there to make a reaction that enables you to set the...