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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/presenting-at-teched-developers-south-africa-2008-durban/ ] Save the date. TechEd Developers South Africa is around the corner (August 3rd through 6th). This year it will take place in Durban , the third most populous city in South Africa. This TechEd, there are four sessions assigned to me: Creating Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (300) Completely new session about...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/xna-game-studio-30-ctp-is-now-available/ ] Do you want to build XNA games for Zune? Do you want to do in from Visual Studio 2008, rather, then from Visual Studio 2005? Download new technology preview of XNA Game Studio. Currently you cannot build games for XBox with XNA GS 3.0 – only for Zune and PC? What does it mean? Actually nothing, but worth a try. Also, you can see in my blog what...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/my-teched-%e2%80%9808-presentation-slides-download/ ] I do not know why, but for some reason in development section of TechEd website there are only two recording and no presentations. I do not want to wait for them to upload (we sent all presentations a while ago), so here it comes. My TechEd presentation DEV335 - Game Development Using Microsoft’s Latest Technologies . I have...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/teched-is-over-the-corner-and-we-are-ready-what-about-you/ ] After a lot of work I’m ready for TechEd . It worth me a lot of blood, sweat and tears until it started to work as I expected. What our session about? In one sentence – Game Development. In number of sentences – we’ll build online car racing multiplayer game, that will run on XBOX, Windows, Linux, Mac and mobile phone. All this...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/running-wpf-on-gas-pump-or-other-windows-ce-devices/ ] What do you think, is it possible to run WPF on Windows CE enabled devices (e.g. gas pumps, GPS systems, robots, game or automatic teller machines or, even, scientific calculators)? Let's see following code: StackPanel panel = new StackPanel(Orientation.Horizontal); ...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/some-new-post-mix-downloads/ ] Today is download day at MSDN. There are some very interesting things published. New release of Windows SDK (new classes for WPF 3.5, bugs fixes, and enhanced support for Windows Server 2008, including speech, error reporting and UAC). Download it here . For more information, visit SDK blog Windows XP SP3 RC2 (it's not final release ), but if you want...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/7-xna-community-games-for-xbox-are-free-now/ ] Xbox Live Community Games is new program, announced by XNA Creators Club. It gives you a chance to download for free seven games for XBox absolutely free. So, what are you waiting for? Download it now from http://creators.xna.com website. What's included? The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai JelloCar Little Gamers Proximity HD Rocketball...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-build-cool-games-by-using-xna-framework/ ] This TechEd , me and Alex will explain how to make XNA, WPF and {censored} work together to develop entertainment stuff easier. In spite of the fact, that we'll explain a little about XNA core, it makes cense (if you want to know) to learn it yourself. Trust me, XNA is brilliant framework, that makes you able to build games easier...