As we continue our walk-through on how to create a hidden object game, the discussion turns to adding functionality to the project that will produce a working game.


As we continue our walk-through on how to create a hidden object game, the discussion turns to adding functionality to the project that will produce a working game.

HTML5 lets you drag files from Windows Explorer or Desktop and drop them on a predefined area of a web page, from where you can upload them to the server using jQuery.

Learn how to make your own hidden object game. Hannes Du Preez walks you through creation and describes the logic involved with these types of games.

Chapter 2 of "Introduction to Mono for Android" starts with an overview of Mono and then moves to a discussion of Mono for Android, configuring the development stack, and developing and deploying a “Hello Mono for Android” application -- first to an emulator and then to your Android-based phone.

The fact that SQL Azure is inherently multitenant, and needs to share physical resources among all clients of the service underlies many of the feature differences between SQL Server and SQL Azure; although, a tremendous overlap exists in functionality and compatibility between the two. Read on to learn more.

Data driven web sites rely heavily on JavaScript and JavaScript based libraries such as jQuery. In situations where data binding and dependency tracking are desirable, open source libraries such as Knockout can easily fill these requirements in ASP.NET web sites. Bipin Joshi explains what Knockout is and how to get up and running with it in your ASP.NET applications.

Displaying HTML content provides a very powerful tool for interacting with users. Regardless of what HTML content you need to display, the XAML WebView provides easy access. Chris Bennett shows you how.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

As we continue our walk-through on how to create a hidden object game, the discussion turns to adding functionality to the project that will produce a working game.

WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.
Microsoft talked about Windows Phone 8 today. The presented 8 platform changes coming to the new phone operating system.
Microsoft introduces the new Microsoft Surface devices, but don't confuse them with the other device called Surface.
Microsoft Windows 8 is coming whether we like it or not. Whether Windows 8 is the new “Jack in the Box” or the next Ruth Chris of operating systems is yet to be seen. Regardless, one of the Windows 8 features that jumped off the menu at me was Windows To Go.