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I think I’m actually sort of relieved to find out that the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate doesn’t support Silverlight 4. I just finished up my Silverlight 4 development environment a few weeks back and wasn’t looking forward to blowing it
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Introduction and Review This is the eight post in a series on building a Silverlight game . In the last post , we coded up all the steps to drag rectangles around the canvas. This left us with a very simple program where we could pick up and
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This is the seventh post in a series on building a Silverlight game . In the last post , we wrote code to set up a rectangle for dragging. In this post, we’ll look at what it will take to drag the rectangle around the playing area. Recap So
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This is the fifth post in a series on building a Silverlight game . In the last post , we finished our basic layout: three stack panels for the game rectangles, some rectangles to play with, and a bottom border for the rectangles to sit on. With
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This is the third post in a series on building a Silverlight game . In the last post , we created our game canvas and three stack-panels to hold our rectangles. Our goal is to create the Towers of Hanoi game pictured below. We have our canvas set
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This is the second post in a series on building a Silverlight game. Read Part 1 : Introduction & Tools . In this post, we’ll set up the basic layout necessary for the game. Based on the game screenshot above and the rules for Towers of Hanoi , we
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Once upon a time, when working with ASP.NET WebForms, you could change class names and control names all you wanted in C# (using F2 – Rename) and your .ASPX markup would remain distressingly un-renamed. It probably still works that way with WebForms,
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After being baffled for a long time about how all the Expression products fit together with Visual Studio, I think I’m finally get the hang of things. The kids and I have been working on a Silverlight game together (they draw the pictures and I do the
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This one made me stop for a minute and try to figure out what I had just asked Vis ual Studio to do. Had I asked it to calculate my salary? Nope, too many digits for that. Maybe I had asked it to pick lotto numbers for me. Maybe Visual Studio just had
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Microsoft is hosting an official launch for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 around the country this spring. The event will include "promotional" versions of all three products, although I'm not entirely sure if that means
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Here's my coworker Shawn's attempt to play nicely with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 during the St Louis Install Fes t . Luckily, you didn't need to actually complete the install to get your free copy. And free t-shirts always help the medicine go down.
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Microsoft and the St Louis Visual Basic User's Group appear to be giving away copies of Visual Studio 2008. Sign up at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360731 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit
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From bad to worse with Visual Studio 2005. . Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (Formerly Orcas) is available for download . The beta comes with a Go-Live license which means if you can convince your IT director, you can write production code using Visual Studio 2008. One convincing argument to make the
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This zip file contains both the presentation and code samples from my Using LINQ in Visual Studio Orcas presentation. The presentation was given at the 2007 STL Code Camp and the May STL C# User Group meeting. The presentation itself was pretty code centric
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