Before I begin, I have both some good news and some bad news about this tutorial. The bad news first: due to a disgusting lack of documentation, this tutorial caused me plenty of plenty of headaches. I experienced moments when I almost threw my hands up in surrender and at other times, just caught my fist as it reflexively tried to pucnh a hole through my monitor. But, the good news: you shall benefit from my pain. I hope to provide you with enough information so that you won’t experience any of the issues I did and your JavaFX applications will deploy correct the first time…and every time after.

So, let’s get started! (more…)

Ahhh, screw it. You know the drill.

This time, we blow $#!* up. (more…)

Kinda ;).

Again, keep in mind that Kongregate wrote these tutorials for beginning programmers, thus they prefered to “make things work” rather than “make things work in the best way”. And, in the interest of keeping the code simple, I plan to cut corners, too ;). Additionally, this tutorial builds on my other tutorials, so if you don’t understand something please refer to Shootorial Conversion #2 and Shootorial Conversion #1.

Here we go! (more…)

Welcome to the next tutorial in my Silverlight game programming tutorial series. For those out of the loop, I recently started a series of tutorials porting Kongregate’s Flash game programming tutorial series over to Silverlight. In my last Silverlight game programming tutorial I converted their Shootorial #1 tutorial, so this time I will convert Shootorial #2.

As I stated before, Kongregate’s tutorials assume no programming knowledge and holds your hand while walking you through the IDE. Conversely, I assume a basic understanding of C# programming and I don’t use the IDE at all. Also, I assume you read enough of my previous Silverlight tutorials to know how to deploy a basic Silverlight application. If not, check the previous game programming tutorial’s prerequisites to learn more.

Okay,…onward! (more…)

Alright, let’s begin! (more…)

So, for this tutorial, we will create a rectangle that you can drag using the left mouse button, resize using the scroll wheel and change its color using the right mouse button. Hopefully, this examle will give you a basic overview on how to handle mouse events in Silverlight.

With all that said, let’s get started. (more…)

I have updated this tutorial for JavaFX 1.0

JavaFX, due to its declarative syntax, empowers developers with the ability to quickly build engaging user-interfaces that leverage eye-popping effects and animation to deliver a deeper, more visceral experience. But, you’ve got to learn to walk before you run so this tutorial will explore JavaFX’s basic animation concepts by creating a simple slide show containing various shapes. For added fun, each slide will have the ability to rotate. While eye-popping it is not, I think this tutorial will give you a good starting point to begin working on more complex animations. (more…)

Don’t know about that, but if you use MSBuild, it’ll sure make everyone’s life a hell of alot easier.

As of .NET 2.0, Microsoft provides developers with a build engine, called MSBuild, as part of the runtime distribution. In this tutorial, I will walk through hand-coding a MSBuild build file for the sample code of my application framework Silverlight tutorial. (more…)

I have updated this tutorial for JavaFX 1.0

Clearly, the creators of JavaFX Script want to make it a great MVC programming language. Nothing says this more than baking triggers and data binding into the language as first class concepts. According to the documentation, JavaFX triggers operate in the same manner as SQL triggers, allowing you to handle data modification events in an aspect-like fashion. And, the bind keyword allows unidirectional binding between a variable and a right side expression. These concepts help remove some of the tedium and typical bolier plate code in handling UI modification events. (more…)