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This is really cool, Sacha Barber has put a neat way to browse Amazon.com by using WPF's ability to do 3D. He has a detailed write up of the application over at Code Project. Sacha even has a video of the interface in action.

Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB team has a bunch of "Did You Know?" facts about Visual Basic that will help you code faster.  Best of all, everything here will work with all the other languages. IntelliSense is all-knowing Make IntelliSense Transpartent (hold down…

Caching with web content is a great way to reduce your bandwidth bills and server strain.  Karin Huber has written an article on different methods on how to get ASP.Net and IIS to cache content on the client's computer. Karin talks about how to get IIS to cache different files and folders…

Ever feel like your getting batted around for undoing and redoing tasks?  Over at Code Project, Henrik Jonsson shows how to create in-memory transactions that allow for undo/redo actions.  Henrik uses generics, c# 3.0 extention methods and lamda expressions.

Dan Waters has created a 5 part webcast series on Microsoft Robotic Studios. Part 4 Here is a brief index of the content. Introduction Getting Started Setting up the Create Serial port communication in VC# Express Teaching the robot to sing More on serial port stuff Setting up and…

If you're like me, you may already have a blog, but if you've been wondering about getting one up and running, here are some open source blog engines.  There are tons of open source engines but here are just a handful.  If you have other great engines, please post them in the comments.…

Johnny Chung Lee has some awesome applications he's done with the WiiMote.  He has two examples, the coolest is making a low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboard while the other tracks your fingers and does a multi-point grid.  His code uses Brian Peek's WiiMote library, DirectX and…

Would you like to have your iTunes lists play on the Zune?  Avner Aharoni wrote an application in Visual Basic using LINQ to do just this.  If you want to view just the LINQ, you can head over to Code @ MSDN. So why is this possible?  Since LINQ can do XML and iTune's database is…

Maker Faire 2008 is coming up fast and Coding4Fun was wondering what we should whip up.  Comment or email us.  We have some ideas but would love to hear what the community would want us to do. Last year we had:  Programmatic Party' with a Disco dance floor and automated bartender,…

We've been asked a few times to create a screen scraper, however, the ASP.Net Library site has created a way of screen scraping.  They parse the HTML and find the tables in it and directly convert those to Data Sets for your program to consume. Their demo uses pre-done HTML, however they…