The new Android OS, screenshots from the 0.9 SDK
August 18th, 2008Five screen shots of the Android OS from the new Android 0.9 SDK!
Limiting drag and drop movement for a game in Flash CS3 with ActionScript 3
August 17th, 2008Sometimes its useful to limit drag and drop of an object to an area you define. For example, lets say you are building a game in Flash CS3 and are allowing the player to move their character around in a dungeon via drag and drop. They click on their character and begin to move them about however you want to only allow them to move a certain distance.
In this case I’ll use a simple green circle to represent the character and when you press and click on it to drag it you will see a gray square show that indicates the area you can move within per turn.
Building a simple chat application with C#, Microsoft’s Velocity, WebORB for .NET, and Flex Builder 3
June 25th, 2008Whether its an instant messaging client running on your desktop or a customized one on an embedded website perhaps built in Flex/Flash, Silverlight, or even JavaScript/HTML you see chat apps everywhere now. Today we’ll look into how to quickly build a chat application using the following technologies:
1. The Midnight Coders WebORB for .NET
2. C# (.NET 3.5 Framework)
3. Microsoft’s Project Codenamed: Velocity
4. Adobe’s Flex Builder 3
Tutorial: Using WebORB for .NET with Flex and C#
June 18th, 2008The Midnight Coders are a Texas based company that provides many solutions for developers. Ah, Texas! What a great state with great food! Today I’m going to talk about one of these solutions: WebORB for .NET
Tutorial: Silverlight 2 layout controls
April 29th, 2008Learning some of the basics of Silverlight 2 will help you to learn the more advanced capabilities available. In this tutorial we’ll be starting from the most basic, but arguably the most used controls in Silverlight 2: The Layout Controls.
Tutorial: Passing objects from Flex 3 to ASP.NET Web Services and back
April 9th, 2008To complete this tutorial you will need a copy of Flex Builder 3 (there is a free trial version available) and Visual Studio 2008 (I used the “Professional” edition) with the .NET Framework 3.5 and IIS 6 or 7. Also you need to have the JSON AS3CoreLib.
WebORB for .NET is now free!
February 28th, 2008The good folks at the Midnight Coders have now merged the entire WebORB for .NET suite into one package and are giving it away free! This is really good news. A special thanks to all the people at the Midnight Coders.
Tutorial: Talking to WCF with Flex 3 via JSON or XML
February 11th, 2008Adobe’s BlazeDS is now a release candidate
February 2nd, 2008BlazeDS is now a release candidate. I’ve downloaded it and played around a bit. Hopefully as time permits I can post a tutorial for those wanting to give it a try and kick the tires so to speak.
Tutorial: Talking between Flex 3 and Flash CS3 SWFs
January 17th, 2008For a project I’m working on I needed a way to be able to write a Flash CS3 SWF, put some controls into it as well as some methods and be able to call those methods and subscribe to the control’s events in the Flash CS3 SWF from Flex 3. When your working with Flash CS3 and Flex 3 things get much easier than using things like the LocalConnection class (not needed for Flash CS3 AS3 to Flex 3 communications). Here is a quick tutorial on how to do this.
