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…)

This tutorial will NOT work on the recently released JavaFX Preview SDK. In the move from JavaFX Script to compiled JavaFX code, much of the language and libraries have changed. Since the language and APIs continue to change at a rapid rate, I will not update this tutorial until they have stabled a bit more. If you want to see some JavaFX code that works under the JavaFX Preview SDK, you can read my JavaFX Hello World tutorial, and also look at these sites:

• James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog (contains many tutorials and sample code using the latest JavaFX build)
• OpenJFX Home (has the latest news on JavaFX)
• JavaFX Script Programming Language Migration Guide (a guide that details how to migrate JavaFX Script, like the code in this tutorial, to compiled JavaFX)
• JavaFX API doc (the latest documentation for JavaFX from the nightly builds)

Feel free to read on….

My last JavaFX tutorial beared one part fruit and one part pain. Clearly, more bugs need squishing and more language features need exercising before JavaFX can even hope to call itself “beta” quality. But, each code drop does get better and better, and even now, I can tell that the end product will turn out nice. So…

…we will press on.(not the greatest movie, but that scene gets me everytime!)

JavaFX, due to its declarative syntax, promises to empower developers with the ability to quickly build engaging user-interfaces by leverage eye-popping effects and animations to deliver a deeper, more visceral experience. But, you’ve got to walk before you run so this tutorial will explore JavaFX’s basic animation concepts by creating a simple slideshow 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…)

This tutorial will NOT work on the recently released JavaFX Preview SDK. In the move from JavaFX Script to compiled JavaFX code, much of the language and libraries have changed. Since the language and APIs continue to change at a rapid rate, I will not update this tutorial until they have stabled a bit more. If you want to see some JavaFX code that works under the JavaFX Preview SDK, you can read my JavaFX Hello World tutorial, and also look at these sites:

• James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog (contains many tutorials and sample code using the latest JavaFX build)
• OpenJFX Home (has the latest news on JavaFX)
• JavaFX Script Programming Language Migration Guide (a guide that details how to migrate JavaFX Script, like the code in this tutorial, to compiled JavaFX)
• JavaFX API doc (the latest documentation for JavaFX from the nightly builds)

Feel free to read on….

Clearly, the creators of JavaFX Script want to make it a great MVC programming language. Nothing says this more than baking triggers and 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 bidirectional binding between two variables so that when one receives an update the other also gets updated. Using these concepts, its easy to remove some of the tedium in handling modification events of UI elements and variables that other languages and frameworks require developers to slog through. (more…)

Man, I hope that code is open source.

In addition to snazzy animations, the application for this tutorial will also contain a couple of form controls that will manipulate the Silverlight content at runtime. The first control, a simple drop down, will allow the user to select the number of rectangles displayed on the screen. The second form control will act as a pause/resume button for the animation.

Okay, let’s get started! (more…)

In the browser.

All my dreams have come true.

Well, not quite. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lucy Liu still haven’t returned my calls. But, it’s a start!

I wrote this tutorial to illustrate how Silverlight communicates with managed code. So, as a simple example, we’ll use C# to handle click events inside of a rectangle rendered on a Silverlight control. And, like always, you can complete this tutorial sans-IDE, for those users who don’t want to install Visual Studio just to get a taste of Silverlight. (more…)