http://www.crowsprogramming.com Computer Programming and Random Blurbs Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Parts in the Series Part I - Getting Started Part II - Drawing a Quad Rendering a Quad with OpenGL and SDL Ok, so if we are going to program a video game then we need to draw something with OpenGL. That being said, last time ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/117 Parts in the Series Part II - Drawing a Quad Getting Started I think I've spent too many late nights playing multiplayer Modern Warfare 2 and now I feel the need to build a small game of some kind. Game programming is fun, and although I’ve ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/104 The ability to ship source code with your product that can be compiled or interpreted at runtime is a very valuable asset. Video games do this all the time with things like AI allowing the end-user to easily mod the game. In compiled languages like C++, this technique is ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/99 An Initialization, or Ini file, is a common text based file format commonly used on the Windows platform. Today its mostly been succeeded in favor of XML files for application configuration and persisting user data. Never the less, these files still exist and are in use by many applications. In ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/95 Hey guys, sorry I've been away for a bit. I'll try and respond to your questions, especially those over on the C# dynamic web service page. I'll be adding a whole lot of new content as well. If anyone has any suggestions on a topic feel free to leave them for ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/91 In this post I’ll show you how to access the system taskbar and obtain information like its location, size, etc. You may find yourself needing to do something like this if you had a "popup" window for instance that is always supposed to "pop up" from the system tray. This ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/88 You can launch a new process from a C# application by using the Process class located in the System.Diagnostics namespace. The Process class also allows you to obtain a collection of all running processes on the system. How to Launch a New Process Starting a process is really easy. Process.Start( "Notepad.exe" ); And that’s ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/83 It’s often necessary to programmatically get a screen shot of the desktop and save it to a file. This is pretty easy with C#; we can create a simple method that will save an image of whatever is on the screen or desktop. Saving a Bitmap Image of the Screen First make ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/78 This article is a very basic introductory tutorial for using multiple threads in C#. I’ll explain what threads are, why you would want to use them, and how to use them. I’ll also show you several examples for creating threads, killing threads, etc. What’s a Thread? A computer program is generally very ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/71 Web services have become an integral part of the communications between software over a network. There are a lot of ugly details behind how they work but thankfully C# hide a lot of those gory details. What you need to know is that there is a web service description (WSDL) ... http://www.crowsprogramming.com/archives/66