10 Minute Silverlight Tutorial - Implementing Silverlight 3 out-of-browser support

Welcome to my Silverlight 3 out-of-browser tutorial. Silverlight out-of-browser functionality allows the user to install Silverlight applications to their local machine and run them offline. This gives developers the additional challenge of supporting both an in-browser and out-of-browser environement as well as gracefully handling offline scenarios. To help developers work through these issues, I created this tutorial which walks through detecting a Silverlight application’s current execution environment and determining if it has Internet access. This is a long one, so let’s not waste anymore time. Read more

April 26, 2009 | Filed Under Tutorial, Silverlight | Comments Off 

Word Invaders Flash Game Post-mortem

Recently, I read Panayoti Haritatos’ post-mortem for Robot Riot and decided to write my own for Word Invaders. In it, I discuss what went right, what went wrong and the lessons learned along the way. Stepping away from the project and then coming back to do this post-mortem certainly gives me a fresh perspective and makes me anxious to start applying some of those lessons. I hope you enjoy reading it. I definitely enjoyed writing it…it gave me a break from working on my Silverlight Out Of Browser tutorial…, which is turning out to be another long one. ;) Read more

April 12, 2009 | Filed Under Post-mortem, Games, Flash/Flex | 3 Comments