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My google GuestMap

Where are you located? Double-Click on the map and tell me where you are! !🙂

GameArtArt.com

A group of indie game developers worried about the future of gaming has launched GamesAreArt.com.

Welcome to this brand new site. Here it’s your home to discuss games as a cultural movement, games as an artistic revolution, games as your creative obsession or games just as games.
Developers and Gamers of the World, Unite! GamesAreArt.com is born.

Creating an Office-Like MVC UI Architecture

MSDN has released a new article which shows how to implement a Word-like UI object model architecture that supports automation etc. like Office does.
The object model demonstrated is based on the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern.

Some PocketPC stuff...

PocketPC Web Browsers Roundup

The pocketpcthought.com forums features a web browsers roundup article.

Get SplashID for free!

Windows Vista for Gamers

Extremetech.com features an article about the Windows Vista presentation for game developers given at Microsoft’s Meltdown convention.

Power Collections for .NET released!

Peter Golde, formerly a Lead Designer for the C# language, has built a generic collection classes library for C# 2.0.

The Game Programming Wiki Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary!

The Game Programming Wiki just turned one year of age today!

Visit the anniversary page to see some usage statistics…

Windows Vista beta1 on VPC

So, the Windows Vista beta1 is officially out and I couldn’t resist downloading it…

I created a new VPC machine and since VPC couldn’t capture the Windows Vista image as a CD drive so I had to burn it to a DVD in order to be able to install it. In the installer, after creating the partition you have to reboot the machine in-order for the setup to continue, I’ve noticed several people on the net who ran into the same problem…

Refreshing a region in IBF

If you try to refresh an IBF region the region gets duplicated by default.

To stop this you need to define a unique region name in the Port associated with the ShowRegion operation by adding a “RegionName” attribute in the “RegionProperties” element (Its not there by default…).

Windows Vista on wikipedia

Just came across the Windows Vista entry at wikipedia.
Covers all the new buzzwords etc.

Also check out the new Microsoft Windows Vista Developers Center…