10 Minute Silverlight Game Programming Tutorial - Shootorial Conversion #4 (C#)

Another day, another shootorial! Every good game has a villian and in this fourth installment, we will add several villians at random intervals. OO-ifying the game in the last tutorial will make adding enemy ships almost embarrassingly easy.

So, let’s get started! Read more

November 14, 2008 | Filed Under Games, General, Silverlight | 15 Comments 

Silverlight 2 RC0 Released; Silverlight Portal is up

Two pieces of news today. First, if you’ve lived under a rock for the past week, Microsoft dropped the bits for the first Silverlight 2 release candidate. This is a DEVELOPER RELEASE only. That means, Microsoft will have NO official consumer Silverlight 2 RC0 runtime, so you should not actually expose RC0 applications to the rest of the world. Mircosoft only did this release to make sure developers could get their applications converted over in anticipation of an official release (which means Microsoft may do an official release soon). You can find more information, including breaking changes, at the links below:

Method of Failed - Silverlight 2 RC0 Released for Developers
ScottGu’s Blog - Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available
Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released!! (details all breaking changes in the post)

Being a only a developer release, I wiil not update any of my Silverlight 2 Beta 2 tutorials. Once Microsoft offically releases Silverlight 2, then I will make sure all my tutorials work. However, after looking over the breaking changes, I believe all my samples should continue to work fine.

Secondly, I finally launched the first version of Die, Ajax!’s Silverlight Portal. Long-term, I want the Silverlight Portal to aggregate the best of all the Silverlight tutorials on the web in one place. Things may look kind of sparse now, but I will add plenty more tutorials over the following weeks. So, go ahead, knock yourself out.

September 28, 2008 | Filed Under General, Silverlight | 1 Comment 

And, he’s back!

Kick the tires and light the fires, baby!

Unknownst to my readers (and to me too, honestly), I decided to take a year hiatus from this site. I can’t come up with a decent excuse for not posting, so I won’t even try. Just know that I’m back in action now and don’t plan on leaving ever again. Read more

September 22, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

Birds of a Feather: Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX

It should come as no surprise when I say that the hype surrounding the introductions of Microsoft’s Silverlight, Adobe’s Flex, and Sun’s JavaFX helped inspire me to create this blog. So, over the course of the next couple of months, I’ll spread my time evenly between each of these application run-times, chronicling my experience and passing it along to my readers. As a developer whom regularly dedicates his free time to researching all the different variations and interpretations of MVC in the web layer, I look forward to seeing how these technologies abate (or increase :-) ) the pain of writing browser-based applications.

So, without further ado, let me introduce our new friends. Read more

June 14, 2007 | Filed Under General | Comments Off 

Welcome to dieAJAX.com

Hi, my name is David Miles and welcome to dieAJAX.com, a blog dedicated to helping designers and developers create new and exciting Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using cutting edge technologies. If you want to know more about me, please read the About page. I have big plans for this, so stay tuned!

June 12, 2007 | Filed Under General | Comments Off