Coding4Fun

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client. Twitter is open source and includes: - A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation - A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

You may not be able to write Quake in .NET, but with the UT3 Bots Starter Kit you could write your Bot in .NET for Unreal Tournament 3.  James Lissiak demonstrates how to write a simple Bot and the Silverlight-based visualization for real-time game information.

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, I interview Arian Kulp, creator of the MEF Utility Runner, a unified host for system tray utility applications.  Learn a bit about MEF and how it can be leveraged to create a plugin architecture for any application, as well as how it was used to…

When web development reached critical mass in the early-mid 2000's, there was a lot of discussion about what it all meant for native development and apps that are optimized for devices, but developers' penchant for exploiting what devices can do has persisted through all of that, and it keeps…

As part of the day two MIX11 keynote, Jeff Sandquist led us through a set of cool Kinect demos featuring various members of the Channel 9 team (and others!). Check them out, they are cool, inspiring and even somewhat embarassing. Update: adding direct links to the various parts of this demo 1:36…

As everyone reading this blog, and those in the Kinect for Windows space, knows today is a big day. From what was a cool peripheral for the XBox 360 last year, the Kinect for Windows SDK and now dedicated Kinect for Windows hardware device, has taken the world by storm. In the last year we've seen…

At PDC, Brian Peek showed off his WiiEarthVR project. Simply, put, the Coding4Fun project is .NET code that combines: - A Nintendo Wiimote controller to move forward or backwards - Virtual Earth 3D - A WiiFit board to "steer" by leaning left or right - Vusix VR920 glasses…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss: - Oxite: The open source ASP.NET MVC Content Management System (Adam Kinney's interview with the team)  - Roger Alsing uses Genetic Program to shape 50 polygons into the Mona Lisa - Justin Needham and Matthew Straub use Windows CE to…

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss this week's developer news including: - Windows Live Wave 3 updates (0 - 1:20) - Dan's Coding4Fun book is out, includes cool endorsement from Alex Albrecht, co-host of Diggnation (1:20 - 2:57) - The Coding4Fun book contributors include…

For //build/ 2012, we wanted to showcase what Windows 8 can offer developers.  There are a lot of projects showing off great things like contracts and Live Tiles, but we wanted to show off some of the lesser known features.  This project focuses on one of those: stereoscopic 3D with…