http://www.codeproject.com Latest Articles for Simon Jackson from CodeProject en-us http://www.codeproject.com/App_Themes/Std/Img/logo100x30.gif http://www.codeproject.com 100 30 CodeProject Copyright CodeProject, 1999-2013 Webmaster@codeproject.com (Webmaster) Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:46:25 GMT 20 C# Hand-coded goodness In one of my previous articles I talked about how MonoGame could be used with portable libraries, this was off the back of some work I was doing with the MonoGame team to help with some of the more tedious clean up tasks that needed doing and I had the … http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/595757/MonoGame-3aplusBuildingplusPortableplusSolutions Simon Jackson Monogame Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/595757/MonoGame-3aplusBuildingplusPortableplusSolutions Technical Blog Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:00 GMT 1104 4.67 1.51 2 3 I’ll go over one one of those fringe / advanced options available to old XNA projects where you can effectively build your own content. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/594779/MonoGame-Content-Projects-and-Custom-Model-Types Simon Jackson Dev Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/594779/MonoGame-Content-Projects-and-Custom-Model-Types Technical Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:00 GMT 1148 0 1 MonoGame - Using libraries with Windows Phone projects http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/585824/MonoGame-Using-Libraries-with-Windows-Phone-Projec Simon Jackson Mono Windows Mobile Phone XNA Monogame Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:31:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/585824/MonoGame-Using-Libraries-with-Windows-Phone-Projec Technical Blog Wed, 01 May 2013 11:32:00 GMT 1954 0 2 We are working as hard and as fast as we can with V2, support or V1 is limited at the moment but we still help out where we can. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/573808/AdRotatorplusV2plusprogressplusreport Simon Jackson XML Dev Intermediate Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:45:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/573808/AdRotatorplusV2plusprogressplusreport Technical Blog Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:45:00 GMT 1290 0 2 If you want to learn the Kinect and how to make the most of it then this book is a really good start and one worth having on the shelf. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/573643/Kinect-for-Windows-SDK-Programming-Guide-A-review Simon Jackson Kinect Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:09:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/573643/Kinect-for-Windows-SDK-Programming-Guide-A-review Technical Blog Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:09:00 GMT 1916 0 2 PCL targets for Mono / MonoGame projects http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/570080/PCL-Targets-for-Mono-MonoGame-Projects Simon Jackson Mono C# Windows Linux Android Phone iOS Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:14:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/570080/PCL-Targets-for-Mono-MonoGame-Projects Technical Blog Sun, 07 Apr 2013 07:02:00 GMT 2465 4.7 1.67 3 3 While I was putting together the MonoGame solution for shocking effect you did seem to get the feeling you were building your game for several platforms, there’s a fair bit of too’ing and fro’ing, pulling parts of the project together and one of my least favorite porting practices, the COPY … http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/548427/MonoGameplusgoesplusPortable Simon Jackson Mono C# Windows .NET Mobile Intermediate All-Topics portability Class Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:32:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/548427/MonoGameplusgoesplusPortable Technical Blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:32:00 GMT 1623 5 1 4 This book is a practical and hands-on guide for developing Android applications using new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), with a step-by-step approach and clearly explained sample codes. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/543148/Androidplus4-3aplusNewplusfeaturesplusforplusAppli Simon Jackson ASP Windows Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:08:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/543148/Androidplus4-3aplusNewplusfeaturesplusforplusAppli Technical Blog Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:08:00 GMT 3062 0 2 Following on from my previous article we don the rubber gloves and grab Zeus’s lightning bolt to launch it on other platforms. Not cryptic enough for you then read on We left off just porting Michael Hoffman’s excellent article showing us how to generate lightning effects almost effortlessly using X http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540143/MonoGameplusgetsplusShocked Simon Jackson XNA Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:14:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540143/MonoGameplusgetsplusShocked Technical Blog Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:14:00 GMT 3445 0 1 It all started one sunny morning when Michael Hoffman who wrote a shocking article on some fantastic lighting effects all done with XNA, I read this and was immediately impressed just how simple his solution was. Not long after this a guy down under called Jose Fajardo was so impressed … http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540145/Doespluslightningplusreallyplusstrikeplustwice-3f Simon Jackson XNA Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:02:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540145/Doespluslightningplusreallyplusstrikeplustwice-3f Technical Blog Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:02:00 GMT 2710 5 1 1 Some of the other frameworks which use XNA as a baseline. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/524961/XNAplusandplusBeyond-2cplustheplusnotableplusmenti Simon Jackson Mono Windows .NET Game XNA3.0 tools Development Phone XNA XNA4.0 third-party Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:08:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/524961/XNAplusandplusBeyond-2cplustheplusnotableplusmenti Technical Blog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:15:00 GMT 2768 5 1.51 2 6 So far in this series I’ve covered: MonoGame – a raw XNA implementation allowing you to create games but you have to code everything yourself UnityXNA – a way to host your existing XNA projects (or new ones) and deploy them using the Unity3D engine, but without utilising the advanced … http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/522228/XNAplustoplustheplusSunburnplusGamingplusEngineplu Simon Jackson C# Windows .NET Mobile Game Development Phone XNA Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:45:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/522228/XNAplustoplustheplusSunburnplusGamingplusEngineplu Technical Blog Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:45:00 GMT 3209 5 1 4 Continuing on the exploration of XNA future I posted about an interesting new framework that was brewing by Barnaby Smith over at MVINetwork, a curious project aiming to bring the ease of use of XNA into the Unity3D engine. The project itself is fascinating but at its heart basically just a wrapper http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/488300/XNAplustoplusUnityXNAplusandplusBeyond Simon Jackson C# Windows Mobile Android Game iOS Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:36:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/488300/XNAplustoplusUnityXNAplusandplusBeyond Technical Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:26:00 GMT 5736 0 9 While putting together the UnityXNA article I cast aside all warnings and threw caution to the wind and spent a bit of time trying to get my 3D starter XNA sample in to the framework, it should come as no surprise from the tenant of that article that I failed, granted I only spent aboutRead More… http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/488299/ConvertingplusDirectXplus-Xplusfilesplusforplususe Simon Jackson C# Windows Mobile Android Game iOS Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:26:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/488299/ConvertingplusDirectXplus-Xplusfilesplusforplususe Technical Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:26:00 GMT 5398 0 4 As part of a new “Back to basics” series which extends on my original XNA Futures article some months ago, I’m going to cover all the options I explained back then in more detail plus probably a few others which have come to light recently. All of this is to show developers who have workedRead More… http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/486285/XNAplustoplusMonoGameplusandplusbeyond Simon Jackson Mono C# Windows Mobile Android Game XNA iOS Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:33:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/486285/XNAplustoplusMonoGameplusandplusbeyond Technical Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:25:00 GMT 6032 5 1 6           AdRotator for Windows Phone Silverlight V1.2 release With the release of what is likely the last version in the V1 branch of AdRotator for Windows Phone Silverlight I’ve gone some lengths to make sure the documentation and samples are also feature complete. For the XNA version read this ar http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482798/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplusPhoneplusSilverligh Simon Jackson Windows-Phone-7 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:02:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482798/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplusPhoneplusSilverligh Technical Blog Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:02:00 GMT 2057 0 2 Windows 8 license checker. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482799/Windowsplus8plusLicenseplusCheckerplus-2fplusteste Simon Jackson C# Dev Intermediate Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:26:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482799/Windowsplus8plusLicenseplusCheckerplus-2fplusteste Technical Blog Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:26:00 GMT 1338 0 AdRotator for Windows Phone XNA. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482797/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplusPhoneplusXNA Simon Jackson Dev Intermediate Windows-Phone-7 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:30:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482797/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplusPhoneplusXNA Technical Blog Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:30:00 GMT 1489 0 1 There’s always that point when you are maintaining and developing your live project when you really wish you had a way to communicate to your users, it could be as simple as a “Check this out” or as worrying as “My backend service provider just crashed please check for my update”. In the past http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482658/HoldplusonplusIplusforgotplustoplusmention-e2-80-a Simon Jackson Win8 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:21:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482658/HoldplusonplusIplusforgotplustoplusmention-e2-80-a Technical Blog Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:21:00 GMT 646 0 Like with any new system there are bound to be some kinks in the road, issues or just downright annoyances that will send you spiralling into the deepest dark pits of annoyance (the last has been me for the last few weeks). A situation exists (which unfortunately is not reliably or easily repeatable http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482659/Windowsplus8plusCorruptplusPackages Simon Jackson Win8 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:17:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482659/Windowsplus8plusCorruptplusPackages Technical Blog Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:17:00 GMT 1029 0 *Note by popular request here’s a sample (pulled from the AdRotator site) showing AdRotator implemented in a Windows 8 app with AdDuplex, PubCenter and a local House AD. As battles go this was certainly one of the strangest.  Windows 8 introduces so many different ways of working, some expecte http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482660/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplus8 Simon Jackson Win8 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:16:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/482660/AdRotatorplusforplusWindowsplus8 Technical Blog Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:16:00 GMT 1038 0 1 Boy what a crazy couple of months, to kick things off I got my first Windows 8 game up and running and through the App Excellence labs on to the Store in prompt fashion, not a glitch (if you don’t count the first lab I attended not understanding what the labs were really there for,Read More… http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/479465/Windowsplus8plussubmissionplustrialsplusandplustri Simon Jackson Windows Beginner Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:31:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/479465/Windowsplus8plussubmissionplustrialsplusandplustri Technical Blog Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:13:00 GMT 3239 0 An exploration into getting XNA running on Windows 8 & .NET 4.5 and all the perils, pitfalls and opportunities it provides. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/476349/XNA-in-Windows-8-from-dream-to-reality Simon Jackson C# Windows Visual-Studio Intermediate Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:41:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/476349/XNA-in-Windows-8-from-dream-to-reality Article Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:27:00 GMT 7172 5 3.49 5 5