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Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:40 AM

Building a Windows Live Agent: First steps

Starting with this post I'm going to not only provide general tips & tricks about WLAs, but actually showing how the IDE works and the process of building an agent. I'm going to develop the agent fully and just using the 5.0 SDK, which is...
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Monday, September 03, 2007 9:57 PM

Lego Mindstorms NXT: NXT Remote for PocketPC

Today I've been searching for more missing software to install into my new PDA-phone, and one that I didn't tested on my old PDA was NXT Remote/Pocket Remote , a small tool that allows remote control of Lego Mindstorms NXT robots via Bluetooth...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:45 PM

Using WiX (Windows Installer XML)

For my current project, I've had to create installation packages with WiX , an opensource tool that allows to create very powerfull installers with XML. I've used the 2.0 version before, but now there is a beta of the 3.0 version, called Votive...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:31 PM

Quick tips for developing under Windows Vista

Now that I'm having quite a lot of development (and fighting with the OS) under Vista, here you are some quick tips that will help you a lot to develop efficiently with Visual Studio 2005. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:33 PM

XNA & XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh

Yesterday I finally installed XNA Game Studio under Vista... and today comes the 1.0 Refresh. Someone did it on purpose :D Anyway, here it is (at last), Windows Vista fully supported, 3D Audio and sharing of binaries (currently just between developers...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:05 PM

VS2005 Unit Tests and copying files

Sometimes you need to copy some files to the output folder before executing your application from Visual Studio. This isn't a problem, unless you're going to execute a VS2005 unit test battery, because it creates a custom output folder before launching...
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Monday, February 26, 2007 7:50 AM

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:55 AM

MS Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance released

A new Patterns & Practices guide has been released. Covers performance testing, capacity plans, load testing, stress testing, test cases and testing under Visual Studio 2005. You can find the online guide at Codeplex .
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:53 PM

Tools: SnippetCompiler

While having fun with numbers (I need to read my RSS on a daily basis, I had hundreds pending) I tested some C# code snippets under SnippetCompiler , which is a tool that enables you to write code in C# or VB.NET and compile it without opening Visual...
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Friday, January 26, 2007 9:52 PM

New Cryptographic Algorithms in Visual Studio Orcas

Seems that sooner or later I'll have to switch to Windows Vista... I've just discovered the new CNG API ( Cryptography API: Next Generation )... and apart from new features , I've digged a bit into the new cryptographic algorithms it brings...
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