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Zero Gravity
28 June 2007 in Links & WebDev | Comments (1)

Zero Gravity is a new game created on Silverlight. I post this, not because games in RIA platforms is something new, but because it is the first public game available for Microsoft framework. Check this casual game here. 

The game is closed source, and was built using C#.

“The result is a fun game that has it all: animation, sound, video, quality gameplay, and over twenty levels of cosmic adventure.”

Encarta answers you…
27 June 2007 in Microsoft & Personal Experience | Comments (0)

There is a really cool new Encarta bot for Windows Live Messenger. Just add encarta@botmetro.net to your Messenger Contacts and you can ask it pretty much everything. It also opens up the Encarta page for you in the chat window, If needed.

WinForms for Silverlight/Flash
27 June 2007 in Microsoft & WebDev | Comments (0)

A company called Netika released a free edition of their Windows Forms implementation, both for Silverlight and Flash.

If you go to this demo page, you’ll see that they’ve somehow taken a pretty broad set of Windows Forms controls and implemented them for Silverlight (and Flash). From the basic controls to toolstrips and calendar, they really done a good job.

Being alpha code running on alpha code, some stuff is a little slow. Even the less, you can see the designer demo, that is a great example of RIA experiences. Almost a web-based Silverlight IDE…

Bugs?
27 June 2007 in Blogging | Comments (0)

I recently received word from a visitor that my adsense ads (right panel) was displaying some weird related links. To my surprise, my last post “Avoid chaos, don’t let bugs take your project away” brought links of sprays to kill bugs and insects. I just want publicly to say, I don’t really support any kind of bug spray brand.

Mom, I got a new family!
26 June 2007 in Blogging | Comments (1)

Starting from today, I’m a new member of prt.sc, a Portuguese online community (website only available in Portuguese).