Game Over for Moonlight

Moonlight sent into twilight - Update - The H Open Source: News and Features

sad, sad thing. But expected ...

Power Of Research released

"Power Of Research": Onlinespiel führt in die Welt der Wissenschaft - derStandard.at (German link)

The Silverlight game I've been working on at TPM Games GmbH for the last two years. Good to see this finally released. Other German newssites wrote about it as well.

Other:
- "Power Of Research": Onlinespiel für Hobbyforscher - DiePresse.com (German)
- Gratis-Onlinespiel führt in die Welt der Wissenschaft - "Power Of Research" - krone.at (German)
- The new strategy game to encourage young people to careers (Slovenian)
- Power of Research: a new online game to inspire the scientists of the future (English)
- Power of Research: a new online game to inspire the scientists of the future (English)

Why Microsoft is Being Nicer to Open Source

Why Microsoft is Being Nicer to Open Source | ITworld

Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down. | Martin Iturbide

Shlomil's blog: Why you probably don't want to get Mono/Moonlight

a few very interesting links on MS, strategy. Playing good with developers (as they aren't lawyers) and still being able to sue any time they want.

Power of Research - Trailer (New)

Power of Research - Trailer

We released a new, updated trailer to our upcoming browser game.

Nasty problem with Blend 4

So the last two work days my boss and I where looking for a rather nasty little problem in our internal controls library for SL4. For some reasons Blend 4 (RC) told us on some simple properties of out controls (in global.xaml) that they didn't exist. So designing with blend didn't work anymore in all our project using our lib. This only applied to simple properties, more complex ones worked just fine. In our case this are mostly Boolean and Double propeties.

The error we get in Blend is: The member 'XXX' is not recognized or is not accessible.

We tried a lot of different things to get some more detailed information to the problem Blend has with our lib. No chance. So I started to create a new project and copy one control after the other to the new one. In the end all controls worked fine in the new project. So where was the problem you ask? Well, it turns out that we had one missing reference which doesn't raise any problem in VS or the final application. Just Blend can't find it and with that doesn't know about these basic properties.

The problem is a reference added by default if you create a new project. For some reason it was missing in ours (don't ask me why). Its the 'mscorlib.dll' located within 'Program Files\Reference Asssemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Silverlight\v4.0'. After adding that one everything was fine with Blend again. Btw. if it should be missing in your project you need to add it by editing the project file. For some reason you can't add it in VS's project properties.

Hope this saves some hours of time for somebody :)

Power of Research Teaser

Power of Research Teaser Game

Our game teaser is online now. Play with it, have fun. Feedback welcome ..

Silverlight & WPF Timeline Control

This is a very nice and good looking timeline control for silverlight and WPF. Since a few days I'm a developer at the project as well. I just send my first commit to the projects SVN server. Mostly I'm gonna fix bugs so you all can use it with a little less fuss. My time is very limited so don't expect any fancy new features from me ...

My Silverlight & WPF Timeline Control Patch

I just submitted a patch to the very nice timeline control. This patch allows to update the events from code. My first patch was way more complex, but after a few changes/suggestions from the timeline developers I got it down to one method.

That's just why I as a developer love Open Source Software. If a feature isn't there I can do something about it. With a closed lib I wouldn't be able to use this nice looking timeline. So this saved me time and trouble and furthermore improved the look of the application. Very nice :)

Microsoft Austria / BigDays 2010

Microsoft Austria / BigDays 2010

gonna be there tomorrow :) ..

Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF

I just found this nice little tutorial. Now finally my FillLayout and DayPanel work as I want them to ^^.

Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF: Introduction - Like pancakes...