Someone the other day tweeted a link to some very cool animated gifs. I love animated gifs !! I have always wanted animated gifs in Silverlight/WPF BUT for reasons unknown they never came. They would have been perfect for A …
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In the WPF and Silverlight “desktop” worlds we have the luxury of being able to use shader effects (fx) in our apps, this infrastructure is not available in the “Windows Phone” or “WinRT XAML/C#” worlds. However thanks to SharpDx and …
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Interested in learning more about game programming with XNA or building applications for Windows Phone 7? Two free all-day events are coming to Phoenix in May that you can attend to learn more. These events are always a ton of fun with some talks on the different technologies, labs, and hands-on time to actually build a custom game/application. Did I mention that there will be prizes given out and free food as well? Register at the links below and I’ll look forward to seeing you there!
- XNA Game Development with Dan Wahlin, Spike Xavier, Rico Rodriguez, Lou Prado, and Ryan Plemons, May 5th, Tempe, AZ.Register
- Business Application Development with Joseph Guadagno, May 12th, Chandler, AZ. Register
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Let’s give some love to Silverlight and in particular Silverlight 5’s 3DApi, which happens to be XNA. I want to draw something cool on this XNA DrawingSurface BUT then also replicate it in DirectX. I’ve honestly never done a DirectX/C++ …
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