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Archive for January, 2006

Tutorial: Developing WPF 3D multiplayer web games

Posted by meero on January 27, 2006

Digital media universe has an interesting tutorial on how to build 3D multiplayer web games using WPF. Another useful article is developing WPF using C#. Very useful for beginners!

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Talk about a real wizard!

Posted by meero on January 25, 2006

Meet Peter Blois, one of my teammates at the Microsoft Expression team and a math whiz. Peter is the guy who wrote the original version of the Flickr Browsr that I used in my Channel 9 presentation. His blog, house of mirrors, is filled with fun WPF samples. Make sure you don’t miss it.

 

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Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer CTP released

Posted by meero on January 23, 2006

Microsoft released today a CTP of Expression Interactive Designer: A new tool for designing interactive user interface for Windows Presentation Foundation.

Here are some useful links:

Channel 9 Video

Try Interactive Designer for free

Expression team blog

Also, here is the source code and executable (107 KB) for the Flickr Browser sample I built in the channel 9 video.

Great thanks to Peter Blois for his wonderful help providing great components that made this sample rock! 

Comments and critiques are always welcome!

 

 

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