How To Activities

XNA Platformer Starter Kit ported to the Windows Phone

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:05:57 GMT

The XNA Platformer Starter Kit ported very simply to the Windows Phone platform.

3D Space game for Windows Phone

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:04:03 GMT

A simple port of the XNA 3D Space game tutorial for the Windows Phone platform.

Windows Phone Silverlight Uber-Demo

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:55:18 GMT

A Silverlight List application that shows off various elements of the Windows Phone.

2D Space - Windows Phone Game port

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:51:31 GMT

A simple port of the XNA 2D Space Game tutorial to the new Windows Phone 7 Series.

WIImote XNA Racing Game source

paulfo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:49:31 GMT

Using the XNA Racing Game Starter kit I have combined the WiiMote .net class allowing you to drive the game from your wiimote in true Mario Kart's style!

Zune HD XNA slides

paulfo — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:18:13 GMT

My Xblig XNA event deck. I didn't use more than the first few slides because the rest of my talk was all code.

Windows 7 Taskbar tabbed thumbnail previews example

paulfo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:38:56 GMT

This project demonstrates how to implemented thumbnail previews using the new Windows Code Pack API for Windows 7.

CameraPlay first step for AR project, get the camera!

paulfo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:14:20 GMT

This .NET CF example users Alex Mogurenko's DirectShow.NETCF (http://alexmogurenko.com/blog/) to get and display a preview of the camera on a Windows Mobile device. Compiled as a .NET CF 3.5 app, Alex's examples are all .NET CF 2.0 so this technique works across the board.

Windows Mobile 6.5 Extended Widget Example

paulfo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:35:35 GMT

This zip file contains two VS 2008 projects. One is a simple HTML and Script Widget that calls upon the second projects COM component functionality.

The .Widget file can be copied to your WM6.5 Emulator.

Compiling the Wid2 project and then deploying to your emulator will create the required CAB file installation for the component including registration. An additional registry key is required to identify the component as available to the Widget engine. See the blog post on Widgets for more details.

XNA Enhanced Platformer Game

paulfo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:43:12 GMT

Based on the Platformer Game starter kit in XNA 3.0 this version of the game has:

Screen Management for Game selection, Options and Exit
Player lives
Vertical and Horizontal scrolling
Added pickups: Power up to kill monsters, Poison to slow player and avoid monsters
Several examples of new player graphics and new level graphics.

The source code is provided 'as is' without warranty. Use at your own peril.

OTA09: Widgets in Windows Mobile 6.5 session slides

paulfo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:30:25 GMT

Windows Media Centre EPG search and Click to Record example

paulfo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:59:21 GMT

This small VS2008 C# project shows how to find and query the Windows Media Centre EPG. It then shows how to create a scheduling request using Click to Record functionality to record a selected programme from the EPG search results. There isn't much error detection implemented, but it is a working example which is one step beyond where the MSDN documentation is!

Searching Flickr

paulfo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:43:37 GMT

Flickr is an online photo sharing site. You can write programs to look at pictures on Flickr with Small Basic. So your computer can look at the enormous Flickr database to find pictures tagged to match your interests. This application also shows how to use Small Basic to change your own computer setup. Once you have found a Flickr picture you like you can set it to be your computer's desktop background!

Tetris Game

paulfo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:37:40 GMT

Tetris written in Small Basic by Kenneth Kasajian.

Have a go at fitting the shapes to form complete lines.

For advanced programmers why don't you add more shapes or change existing ones?