So still busy working away on my Child Sleep Safe Imagine Cup entry, this time I have been working on a .Net Micro Framework demonstrator application to show off Serial X10 communication messages. I am using my Widgets library that I wrote years ago for my OPO runtime on the Micro Framework, that near...
Read more →We now enter the final part of coding a 3D My Pictures Helix using the Windows Presentation Foundation, we’ve done quite a lot and covered quite a few key areas but still have some important areas to cover: optimising memory usage, camera positioning and hit testing. Soon you will have your very own program...
Read more →My Pictures 3D Helix using WPF (Part 2 of 3)Writing computer code is a funny thing really. You can always tell if you have just written bad code, especially so here at Microsoft. For if an architect sees it, normally they will pull a face as if you have just slapped them around the...
Read more →Lately I have been coding a lot using WPF and one of the main area’s I’ve been involved in is the 3D rendering, however its easy to find out that there are quite a lot of performance hits across the board when it comes to WPF.One of the biggest hits is the way it...
Read more →When I first started programming my OPO runtime I was doing it as a proof of concept, except with some of the cool support and interest from people I have finally decided to rewrite it properly. Also after being given some technical documentation about how OPO was structured and its internals helped! So its...
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