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Window Phone 7 Developer Tools + controls!Sep 16, 2010 at 7:13 AM
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Today the Windows Phone team released the final bits for Windows Phone 7! The tooling is free and will integrate with Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 if you have them installed as well. Head over… -
XNA WP7 getting startedAug 23, 2010 at 6:18 AM 0
The XNA team just released a wealth of information on developing for Windows Phone 7. This is the first of 4 releases for this series on WP7 game development by this team. They'll talk about the actual platform, to performance to adding in the final polish to make your game really… -
RFID kit with .Net Support!Aug 13, 2010 at 3:49 PM 0
Trossen Robotics has a pretty awesome RFID kit with a RedBee RFID reader by Robotic Connections. Here are a few specs from the reader. Supports all EM41xx family 125 kHz RFID tags USB, XBee, and TTL Serial communication Serial Communication Protocol and Shared Serial Devices Protocol… -
WP7 Level Editor!Aug 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM 0
David Rousset created a 4 part write up on explaining a demo built around Silverlight 4, Windows Azure and XNA on Windows Phone 7: Showing the final result in action as well as the SL4 application to play with Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7: overview (1/4) Details… -
Netduino – Open source hardwareAug 03, 2010 at 7:36 PM 10
There is a new .NET Micro Framework board that is 100% open source now. The netduino from Secret Labs can leverage the arduino shields! Their projects page, http://www.netduino.com/projects/, has a few projects like how to get a blinking LED to work and read data from a color sensor… -
Loading, iterating, and saving photos with WP7Jul 20, 2010 at 10:17 AM 0
Friend of Coding4Fun, René Schulte, has an full write-up on how to do some simple drawing, loading, and saving with Windows Phone 7. René even used multi-touch as well! He leverages the WriteableBitmapEx class that extends out the WriteableBitmap Silverlight class. To do a PhotoChooser,…
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Natural User Interface libraryJul 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM 0
Blake.NUI is a new open-source library for multi-touch NUI (Natural User Interface) development. It can be found at blakenui.codeplex.com and is under a MS-PL license. The library is still in undergoing changes but here are some of the things currently included in Blake.NUI: Controls… -
WebMatrix, web development made easyJul 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM 0
WebMatrix was recently released and helps make creating websites super easy. WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It… -
the world is just a flat databaseJul 02, 2010 at 7:59 AM 0
Clint Pearson created a flat database project over at CodePlex. Initially I wasn't sold on this but then after a few pokes at the source code, I realized it is actually fairly powerful. Clint implemented a table solution for FlatDB which makes it far more powerful than a typical… -
.NET on a bicycleJun 30, 2010 at 9:35 AM 0
The .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) team has a great example of using low cost, embedded computing to improve their biking experience. All the source code can be found at http://netmfbikecomputer.codeplex.com/ and just a reminder, the NETMF is 100% open source as well! Introduction Getting the…
