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Squadron Formations

Whew, late night but fun development. Who wants to see the new battalion formations?

Animator Beta 2

The animator beta 2 build is out! Bug fixes, features, and so much more! If you’re a Flash developer, this might be a handy tool to build XML sprite sheet animations.

Still alive…

This is the animator application I mentioned a few posts back. It doesn’t do too much right now, but it should help anyone who is trying to make $100 dollars in a Flash contest.

Animation Tool Demo

The video runs faster than it should and it lacks about half the needed keyframes, but it gets the job done.

A think it will be time for a beta this week or this coming weekend

Presentation Layer

I’m redesigning the Solution Explorer so that it works the way the user would expect, and this is a good example of how the Model-View-Controller setup makes life more simple over just hooking into Form events and using Form objects directly.

Context Menus in Tree Views

It is very easy to make a poor presentation layer with Visual Studio — in fact, if you ask “What’s a presentation layer,” then you’re probably doing it wrong.  It is all too tempting to draw a new button on a form double click the button and start coding away.  Visual Studio makes coding a [...]

Optimized Sprite Sheets

I executed the Shrink Rectangles action which produced the below image. The green boxes illustrate the change in frame size — all of the empty white rows and columns of pixels have been removed from the frames.

Handy Tool Teaser

It is tedious to make sprite sheets and map them to rectangles manually. Imagine an application that would create sprite sheets and XML-based animations.

The Global Assembly Cache

Are you a .NET software developer? Do you have assembly versioning problems? Do you have multiple copies of the same DLL in many component folders? Well if, so my friend, you’ve got trouble. Folks, right here in Source Code City! Trouble with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “D” and that stands for “dependency!”
That’s [...]

How to catch an exception

I was reading up on exception handling tonight — looking for a way to prevent crashes in a Windows Service which sports a plugin architecture (whether or not the crashes should be prevented if there is a way) — when I found this code:

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Resource resource = GetResource();
try
{
DoWork();
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