Archive for April, 2006

Gaming and Application Development

Posted on April 26th, 2006 by aaron
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I ran across this article (and most specifically this excerpt) in my RSS reader this afternoon: “Now an entire generation has grown up with a different set of games than any before it. The last thing they do is read the manual. Instead, they pick up the controller and start mashing buttons to see what [...]

Metadata Attributes for Custom Controls

Posted on April 6th, 2006 by aaron
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This link (here) may not be exhaustive (but it might be), but it offers a useful list of attributes that can be applied to custom controls to support better design-time interaction. I find it useful to be able to right-click a property in the designer and select “Reset” to return it to the control’s default [...]