Channel 9 - Discussions by SoCal Sam http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by SoCal Sam http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SoCal Sam/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SoCal Sam/Discussions en Sat, 25 May 2013 14:56:20 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 14:56:20 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 The Sandbox - XNA Oriented Bounding Box Intersection Test This is a well done example, I hope you don't mind if my students post some questions to you?  I am an adjunct instructor in game design at CSU Fullerton (Cal State), and this fits in with the class exactly.  Big Smile

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/251718-XNA-Oriented-Bounding-Box-Intersection-Test/d621dff2ae5f43fd95f49dea0107fee1#d621dff2ae5f43fd95f49dea0107fee1 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:22:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/251718-XNA-Oriented-Bounding-Box-Intersection-Test/d621dff2ae5f43fd95f49dea0107fee1#d621dff2ae5f43fd95f49dea0107fee1 SoCal Sam 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SoCal Sam/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Tiny Tennis, the game, secrets that Microsoft didn't tell you...

Using Tiny Tennis

 

Does it get any better then a Pong simulation?  
 

Check out these simple but fun games (including the Crusader, etc.) at:

https://www.upgradeyourgame.com/secure/resources, you will have to have:

Live ID

Hotmail Passport

Download VB or C# Express, or both! (You can download VC++ as well, and while you are at it, have them download SQL Express, more on that later.)

 

Things the two *.htm files don’t tell you about Tiny Tennis:

 

There are two *.htm files that explain Tiny Tennis and game concepts, but there are a few things that are not discussed.  The question: “So what is Tiny Tennis?” is answered.  What isn’t answered is that it is a game that is downloaded as a TEMPLATE for use in C# Express or VB Express.

 

I downloaded the files and put the extracted zip files in the *.VSI file in a folder that I wanted.  Now the game doesn’t work.

 

Ok smarty pants, you are right, it doesn’t work.  The project type that the Arcade games are posted as are templates, this confused me the first time as well.  If you attempt to open the file directly using the project file or something that works normally, then you are faced with the evil message of some sort.

 

When it is downloaded and allowed to expand exactly as the zip attempts to put it in the correct folder, then it appears as a template file in Visual Studio Express, Professional, VSTS and so forth.  That folder is often at the following location:

 

…\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Or

…\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic

There are other secrets that Microsoft is keeping from you as well, like why did they pick channel 9?  I would like to know.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/203289-Tiny-Tennis-the-game-secrets-that-Microsoft-didnt-tell-you/203289#203289 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:07:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/203289-Tiny-Tennis-the-game-secrets-that-Microsoft-didnt-tell-you/203289#203289 SoCal Sam 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SoCal Sam/Discussions/RSS The 9 Guy Around The World - Mac OS - TIGER in vmware 5.5 With legal drugs, the term leasing would be interesting or using like software would also be interesting.  How would would you return the drug after you used it and it didn't work?  With software I agree to uninstall it and return any delivery media to the original owner.

In the US, cars are unique in law since they basically are under the rule of "You buy it, you are stuck with it after a short period of time".  With general aviation (personal aircraft) you could sue the manufacturer decades after the plane left the factory for example.

oh well, it seemed funny when I started writing this, but it isn't.  See the drug return would have been in bottles filled with ... well, ok.

Ok, software licensing is confusing.Perplexed

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Infopath cannot creat a blank form infopath cannot open the form. To fix this problem, contact your system administrator

Form template: urn:Contoso:ED:Schemas:EDNursingRecord
The updated form template uses the URN

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:EDNursingRecord:http---Contoso-ED-Schemas-EDNursin

gRecord, but InfoPath expects the following URN: urn:Contoso:ED:Schemas:EDNursingRecord

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/196692-Share-point-portal-and-Infopath-problem-any-ideas/196692#196692 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:39:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/196692-Share-point-portal-and-Infopath-problem-any-ideas/196692#196692 SoCal Sam 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SoCal Sam/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Have you got the following error when doing the tiny tennis? Oh right, the $safeprojectname$ in the namespace indicates that this is a template, silly me.  But why does the installer not put them into the correct folder, I just tried it on another computer it was the same.

If I was a beginner, this would throw me off, big time! 

Hopefully someone will fix the installer for tiny tennis and the other programs.

It works nicely, but the programs seem a little large if I was just getting started.[A]

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Interesting, I simply downloaded the C# version of tiny tennis from the Game Arcade and opened it up, the form tinytennis.cs had that message on it.

Doesn't happen with the VB.  I am going to ignore this and work with the vb version, unless others have noticed this problem.

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