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Building a simple game using XAML/C#: Part 3 – Make it a game

November 18, 2011 · by gguuss · in programming, samples

Now that we have our basic interactions working the way we want, it’s time to add some game logic. We’ll do this by: Refactoring the game logic into a Game class and adding a “Level” class that will encapsulate the…

Building a simple game using XAML/C# Part 2 – Input and Multimedia

November 16, 2011 · by gguuss · in programming, samples, XAML

Starting from the last post in this brief series on XAML UI for Metro style apps, we’re ready to enable user input. Before doing this, I wanted to add a few sounds to the application. To do this, I used…

Building a simple game using XAML/C#: Part 1 – XAML UI

November 14, 2011 · by gguuss · in howtos, programming, Windows

I thought it would be fun to make a game for the Windows developer preview. So, as an exercise in simplicity, I decided to go for a game that loosely resembles “Simon”, the memory game where you try and remember…

Playing with paper.js and background animations

November 11, 2011 · by gguuss · in development, Hacking

After starting my blog, I got a few comments on my @gguuss twitter account about the animated background that I have. So, I figured I would write a short post about it.   What is paper.js? I’m sure that its…

Quick Post: Setting up an OBi100+ Google Voice to ring a physical phone

November 8, 2011 · by gguuss · in Hacking, howtos

  It’s surprisingly easy to set up Google voice with a physical phone line now that the OBI100 has been released with some tools for doing this. Step 1: Get an OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge Step…

Copy and Paste Coding: SQL insert/update for C#, PHP, and Perl

November 7, 2011 · by gguuss · in development

The following examples are some dead-simple examples that come up all the time when I’m prototyping.  The following examples are the first ones that come to mind: CGI / DB connectivity and insertion.  Note the code provided does not apply…

Adding an application bar to an HTML/JS app

November 4, 2011 · by gguuss · in development, JavaScript

I recently created a post on Adding an application bar to a XAML/C# application on Windows 8. This is fine if you’re a C# dev. But, how do you do this on the Windows developer preview if you are using…

Adding an application bar to a XAML/C# application

November 3, 2011 · by gguuss · in howtos, programming

So the next version of Windows adds the new spiffy Windows Appbar but how do you add it to your XAML app? It’s easier than you might think… like 15 minutes to do the first time. For this short tutorial,…

TwilioCollage: Programming the AppBar with RESTful services

November 1, 2011 · by gguuss · in howtos, JavaScript, samples

Introduction Have you ever seen CoCollage? It’s a cool product that lets people share photos with each other onto a TV screen by sending text messages. I was trying to think of something cool to play with for the Windows…

Application Verifier: Save your memory! Debug your apps! Also, hax.

October 31, 2011 · by gguuss · in Hacking

Application verifier is a nifty application that Microsoft introduced for Windows XP around 2001. This testing tool is also useful for if you want to troubleshoot Windows applications.  For example, if you notice a process that is getting out of hand…

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