Scott Currie - Multiple language programming demo

Has the Quake demo been cut? Or can we expect it in the future?

I suggested this.. everyone took the piss and said you can communicate between objects anyway..

It would have been nice to see a split-screen with the person on the left and screen-captures on the right - easier to follow.

I have a sneaking suspicion I know how the cube solving algorithm works - start with a solved cube and make a random number of random moves.  Then, to solve it, make the moves backwards in reverse order. =) Flashy, but you can't use it to solve a real cube by entering the initial messy position.

It wouldn't be *that* hard to write a real solver. At least as long as you didn't try to animate the entire process of finding the solution but instead the final solution.

Not even nearly as hard as a basic chess AI.

Manip wrote:

It wouldn't be *that* hard to write a real solver. At least as long as you didn't try to animate the entire process of finding the solution but instead the final solution.

Not even nearly as hard as a basic chess AI.

I suppose they might have had a cube-solving algorithm lying around.

Sweet, being able to use multiple lanuages in the same project is awesome. I can't wait for this.

One thing to take this to the next step is to make the IDE be able to convert the C# to VB.NET and VB.NET to C#. It would be awesome to do it in a way that a VB.NET developer could load the C# project, edit the code using VB.NET and then it saves it back in C#. Then the C# developer could go and edit it with C#. This would be very possible since C# and VB.NET only have syntax difference, there isn't anything you can do with C# that you can't with VB.NET and vice versa. This would achieve true language independance. I'm sure you could easily throw C++ in to the mix.

Ok, how about this.. next time you guys show us a samle of an app you do not use that camera, but use this nifty product instead:
 http://www.video-capture.info/

Record the screen, and use the microphone to talk as you would with the camera you always use.. We would be able to see the screen which is good! nice video btw

This is the second reason why C++ should be interesting to me. I'm getting the message here...

Actually it's a real solver.  You can give it an arbitrary position (reads an XML file for start position) and it will solve it.  Of course some positions will take longer than others -- some much longer.

Kang Su Gatlin
Visual C++ Program Manager

Right on RasX.  We hope to make this message loud and clear.  If there's anything we can do to make it clearer... let us know 


Thanks,

Kang Su Gatlin
Visual C++ Program Manager

Steve411: unfortunately the reason you can't see the screen is because of the compression we're using. We're putting these files down to 300 kbps. I'll try this out and see if we can use it someway, but it needs to spit out .WMV files that can be streamed at 300kbps or less.

Scott mentioned in this interview that by the time this video is published this sample cube application is uploaded to MSDN, but i can't find it

Manip,
why Dolby Surround if we can get Dolby Digital or DTS?

Too bad only link.exe can link modules. I'd like AL to be able to do so too, so I can use that from my custom MSBuild files.

KSG wrote:

Actually it's a real solver.  You can give it an arbitrary position (reads an XML file for start position) and it will solve it.  Of course some positions will take longer than others -- some much longer.

Kang Su Gatlin
Visual C++ Program Manager

Sweet!  A general nxnxn cube solver?  Where can I get the code?

Very cool, but I can not find the source code. I would love to take a look at it and try it for myself. Any links?

If you want to do this in 1.x, try ILMerge. Much easier than the alternative, decompiling all the modules with ildasm then building a single binary with ilasm.

I was very disappointed when I found this tool - I'd had that idea too but failed on the actual execution

I assume that partial classes must be written all in the same language - you can't have one part of a class written in VB and another in C++?

scobleizer wrote:

Steve411: unfortunately the reason you can't see the screen is because of the compression we're using. We're putting these files down to 300 kbps. I'll try this out and see if we can use it someway, but it needs to spit out .WMV files that can be streamed at 300kbps or less.

 Thanks scrobleizer.

Scobleizer, I'm sure it's a stupid question, but why can't we have higher res?  Since we can download now, you could give us nice big pretty videos that weren't all blurry.


I do appreciate all you do.  Thanks for it.  I like the blurry videos.

Light...

yes, i love visual c++ ! 

exciting things happening with the vc++ project system. also the posts and videos of kang su gatlin about the power of c++/cli are awesome. i think we're on the right track with c++.
any chance to see more videos with mr. gatlin, btw? compiler guys' talks are what keeps c++ people inspired

keep up this outstanding work with channel9 ! it's just amazing to have such an insight into the different project groups.

- martin.

gswitz: bandwidth costs. Let's say I gave you the 2.1 megabits-per-second versions. Then our bandwidth costs would be seven times higher than they are now.

I'm a Twitter addict.  This is great!

jsrfc58 wrote:

Why couldn't someone write a single "universal" compiler, and then have interchangeable "front-ends" (scanner/parser/etc.)

I think the Phoenix thing is kinda what you're thinking about.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=13369

KSG wrote:

Actually it's a real solver.  You can give it an arbitrary position (reads an XML file for start position) and it will solve it.  Of course some positions will take longer than others -- some much longer.

Kang Su Gatlin
Visual C++ Program Manager

You are such a tease...

Hello,

thanks for this great demonstration.
Scott Currie mentioned that source code for this
would be posted on MSDN but I could not find anything
after an extensive search.

Could someone please provide me with a URL to the
source code?

Thanks in advance,
Paddy