1 Mar, 2010
I have had a couple of people that have asked me how to draw fast running simulations / games in WPF. The thing that most people try and do is use controls, and move them about using RotateTransforms and TranslateTransforms. This does sound good in theory, but I just don’t think it’s fast enough.
You know [...]
24 Feb, 2010
I recently spent some time writing up a new article on using both
ADO .NET Data Services
RIA Services
If you have not messed around with these 2 data access technologies this new article may be of interest to you. I do not go into advanced scenarios, but I do cover the basic CRUD operations in both technologies.
I [...]
22 Feb, 2010
I love it when I find a new .NET class that I have never used before. That just happened to me, I cam across a little class called Lazy<T>.
The idea behind Lazy<T> is that it is a simple wrapper for an object that may be expensive to create, maybe one that hits the database or [...]
4 Feb, 2010
It has been a while since I posted something, but you see I have been moving house and do not have any internet at the moment, so it has been quite problematic.
After much delay I finally bit the bullet and and bought myself a mobile broadband dongle which enables me to work on the move. [...]
25 Jan, 2010
I am very happy to report that one of my recent articles has scooped best overall article of the month for December 2009 at www.codeproject.com
Here is the original article : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/Graph3D.aspx
And here is what it looked like :