The final installment of our Slot Game series shows you how to build in a way to win or lose. We will also add some effects for when a win takes place.
Adding Sizzle to a Video Slot Game with VB.NET
Published 10/10/2012
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Creating a Video Slot game with VB.NET Part 2 - Gameplay
Published 10/04/2012
This installment of Creating a Video Slot game with VB.NET shows you how to determine whether or not three pictures form part of a winning line, how to enable the facility to enter an amount of credits, and how to track them during gameplay.
Creating a Video Slot game with VB.NET
Published 10/01/2012
Hannes du Preez take you through the steps to create a video slot game in VB.NET.
Working with Queues and Stacks
Published 09/24/2012
Apart from Hashtables, queues and stacks are probably the most common Collection classes. This article explains the ins and outs of queues and stacks.
Working with Hashtables in .NET
Published 09/17/2012
There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections, which as its name implies, is a collection of objects that you can store in a certain manner.
Adding File Associations
Published 09/10/2012
For some reason, setting file associations is still somewhat of a mystery to many a developer. Hannes du Preez shows you how to create an installer package to do it for you!
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
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Adding Sizzle to a Video Slot Game with VB.NET
Published 10/10/2012
The final installment of our Slot Game series shows you how to build in a way to win or lose. We will also add some effects for when a win takes place.
Advanced Azure Queuing with the Sessions and the Service Bus
Published 10/15/2012
Microsoft Azure offers two queuing options: Azure Queues and Azure Service Bus. The first step to understanding Service Bus Sessions, an advanced feature of Service Bus, is understanding the need.
