Coding4Fun. 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More - Helion

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Autor: Dan Fernandez, Brian Peek
ISBN: 978-05-965-5435-4
stron: 512, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2008-11-26
Księgarnia: Helion

Cena książki: 139,00 zł

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Tagi: .NET - Programowanie

How would you like to build an Xbox game, use your Nintendo Wiimote to create an electronic whiteboard, or build your own peer-to-peer application? Coding4Fun helps you tackle some cool software and hardware projects using a range of languages and free Microsoft software. Now you can code for fun with C#, VB, ASP.NET, WPF, XNA Game Studio, Popfly, as well as the Lua programming language.

If you love to tinker, but don't have time to figure it all out, this book gives you clear, step-by-step instructions for building ten creative projects, including:

Alien Attack: Create a 2D clone of Space Invaders with XNA for the PC, Xbox 360, and Zune
LEGO Soldier: Create an action game using Popfly with a custom-built virtual LEGO character
World of Warcraft RSS Feed Reader: Use WoW's customizable interface to have feeds pop up while you're gaming
InnerTube: Download YouTube videos automatically and convert them to a file format for off-line viewing
PeerCast: Stream video files from any PC
TwitterVote: Create custom online polls on Twitter
WHSMail: Build a website with ASP.NET for Windows Home Server that lets you view the messages stored on a computer with Outlook
"Wiimote" Controlled Car: Steer your remote-controlled car by tilting the Wii Remote controller left and right
Wiimote Whiteboard: Create an interactive whiteboard using a Wii Remote
Holiday Lights: Synchronize your holiday light display with music to create your own light show

The perfect gift for any developer, Coding4Fun shows you how to use your programming skills in new and fun ways.

"This book is amazing! The scope is so wonderfully broad that anyone who has an interest in designing games at any level should read this book."

-- Alex Albrecht, Creator of Diggnation / Totally Rad Show / Project Lore

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Coding4Fun. 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More eBook -- spis treści

Coding4Fun
- SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with OReilly
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
  - Who This Book Is For
  - What You Need to Use This Book
  - How This Book Is Organized
  - Conventions Used in This Book
  - About the Code
  - Using Code Examples
  - Comments and Questions
  - Safari Books Online
  - Acknowledgments
    - From Dan Fernandez
    - From Brian Peek
- I. Gaming
  - 1. Alien Attack
    - Overview
    - Setup
    - Windows Version
      - Screens
        
        Title screen
        
        InputManager
      - Back to the Game
      - Seeing the Title Screen
      - Game Screen
        
        Adding GameScreen to the main game
        
        Sound engine
        
        Player ship and sprites
        
        Player shots
        
        Scoring and lives remaining
        
        Enemies
        
        EnemyGroup
        
        Collision detection and explosions
      - Running the Application
    - Xbox 360 and Zune Support
      - Xbox 360
      - Zune
    - Final Thoughts
  - 2. LEGO Soldier: A 2-D LEGO Side-Scroller Popfly Game
    - Overview
    - Popfly Game Creator Terms
    - Building LEGO Soldier Step-by-Step
    - Building the Popfly Game
    - Designing Custom Actors
      - Designing a LEGO Model Using LEGO Digital Designer
      - Exporting a LEGO Model
      - Cropping out Empty Space
      - Upload Images to Popfly
      - Building an Actor in the Actor Designer
      - Adding a Health Bar and a Scoreboard
    - Importing Actors
    - Designing the Main Scene
      - Designing the Main Scene
      - Adding the Two Cave Background Actor Files
      - Tiling the Background
      - Tiling the Ground Floor
      - Designing the First Half of the Scene
      - Designing the Second Half of Our Scene
    - Building Game Properties
    - Building Behaviors
      - Renaming Behaviors
    - Building the Main Scene Behaviors
      - Using Shortcuts to Build the Main Scene Behaviors
      - Building a Property Change Behavior to Reset the Health Property
      - Creating a Custom Code Behavior
      - Adding Main Actor Behaviors Using Shortcuts
      - Building the Catapult Behavior
    - Building the LEGO Security Actor Behaviors
      - Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts
      - Setting a Random Jump Behavior
      - Adding a Random Motion Behavior
      - Adding a Shooting Behavior
      - Adding a Disappear Behavior
    - Building the Fire Bullet Projectile Behaviors
      - Updating the DisappearOnCollision Behavior
      - Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Property
    - Building the LEGO Skeleton Behavior
      - Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts
      - Updating the Jump Behavior
      - Creating a Behavior to Follow the Main Actor
      - Setting the Skeleton Disappear Behavior
      - Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Value
    - Adding Behaviors for the Barrel Actor
      - Adding the Gravity Shortcut for the Barrel Actor
      - Adding the Disappear Behavior
    - Building the HealthBar Behaviors
      - Building a Custom Code Behavior for Updating the HealthBars HealthValue
      - Creating a Scene Change Behavior to End the Game
    - Adding the Blind Scientist Behaviors
      - Adding a Custom Code Behavior to Call the Grow Animation Storyboard
      - Adding Random Left and Right Motion Behaviors
      - Adding a Behavior to Lower the Health Value
      - Adding the Scene Change Behavior to Win the Game
    - Publishing Your Game
      - Publishing to Facebook
    - Final Thoughts
  - 3. FEED READER: An In-Game RSS Reader for World of Warcraft
    - Overview
      - Running Feed Grabber
      - Feed Reader
      - Feed Reader Slash Commands
    - Before We Get Started
      - A Quick Tour of the Lua Programming Language
        
        Lua types
        
        Variable scopes
        
        Lua functions
        
        Understanding Lua tables
        
        Feed Reader's Lua table
      - FrameXML 101
        
        Layout
        
        AddOn Studio for designing FrameXML
        
        Templates
        
        Events
    - Understanding the Feed Reader Addon
      - Dissecting Feed Reader
      - How Feed Reader and Feed Grabber Work
      - The Feed Reader UI
        
        Frames
      - Adding Code for Frame.xml
        
        Global variables
        
        Defining a variable as a saved variable
        
        Registering for Warcraft events
        
        The SelectFeed and SelectFeedItems functions
        
        The SelectFeedItem function
        
        The UpdateFeeds and UpdateFeedItems functions
        
        The UpdateFeeds function
        
        The UpdateFeedItems function
        
        Updating the summary
        
        OnClick event for Feed buttons
        
        OnClick event for FeedItem buttons
        
        Adding a basic slash command
    - Feed Grabber
      - Common Feed List
        
        Programmatically getting feeds
        
        Serializing to Lua
        
        Sneaking in data updates by monitoring the Saved Variables file
    - Final Thoughts
- II. Software and Web
  - 4. InnerTube: Download, Convert, and Sync YouTube Videos
    - Overview
      - InnerTube's Main UI
      - Running InnerTube for the First Time
      - Adding Videos
    - How InnerTube Works
    - How YouTube's API Works
      - Standard YouTube Feeds
      - User-Specific YouTube Feeds
      - YouTube Search
      - Optional Query String Parameters
      - Other Important YouTube URLs
    - Building Classes for YouTube Feeds and Videos
    - Calling the InnerTubeService Class
      - Converting YouTube XML into .NET Objects
    - Downloading Videos from YouTube
      - Downloading a YouTube Video with Your Browser
      - YouTube Blocks You (by Design)
      - Getting a Session Token from JavaScript
      - Houston, We Have a Token!
      - Getting a Token Programmatically
      - Downloading the Video
      - Downloading a Video's Thumbnail Image
    - Converting YouTube Videos Using ffmpeg
    - Syncing YouTube Videos to iTunes and Zune
      - Syncing Videos to iTunes
      - Syncing Videos to Zune
        
        Zune monitored folders
    - Putting It All Together
      - Calling InnerTubeFeedWorker
    - Setting Up the InnerTube WPF Application
      - Global Variables
      - Application Settings
    - Building the InnerTube UI
    - InnerTube Skeleton
    - Dissecting MainWindow.xaml
      - Setting the MainWindow.xaml data context
      - Part 1: The Feed List ListBox
        
        Data binding the feedList ListBox
      - Part 2: The VideoList ListBox
      - The Data Template UI
      - Data Binding the Video List ListBox
      - Binding to an Image
      - Building the Image Value Converter
      - Setting Up a Class As a Static Resource
      - Part 3: The Details Pane
      - Formatting Numbers in WPF
      - Data Binding in the Details Pane
      - Data Binding to User Controls
      - MediaPlayer User Control UI
      - MediaPlayer Data Binding
      - Playing and Pausing Video
    - Final Thoughts
  - 5. PeerCast: Watch Videos on Your PC Anywhere in the World
    - Overview
    - A Tour of PeerCast
      - Client or Server Mode
        
        Server mode
        
        Client mode
    - How PeerCast Works
      - How Peer Channel Applications Work
        
        Key P2P terms
        
        Peer Channel by example
      - Building a Peer Channel Application
        
        Listening to P2P messages asynchronously
        
        Structuring messages from the background thread to the UI thread
      - The NetworkManager Class
        
        NetworkManager variables and constructor
        
        Starting a connection
        
        Running on a background thread
        
        Subscribing to P2PLib events
        
        Reporting progress to the UI thread while we wait for a connection
        
        Keeping the BackgroundWorker thread alive
      - Listening to P2P Events Using Network Manager
        
        Understanding how the login process works
        
        The StatusChanged event
        
        Sending commands using chat messages
        
        Understanding how chat messages work
        
        Receiving chat messages in the ChatChanged event handler
        
        Processing commands on the server
        
        The GetList ChatCommand
      - Using C4FP2P to Stream Videos
        
        Understanding how video streaming works
        
        Setting up a video stream
        
        Two different StreamChanged events
        
        The P2PLib StreamChanged event
        
        Logging messages when streaming a video
        
        Finished streaming a video
        
        Ending a connection
    - Building the Application UI
      - Choosing the Application Mode
        
        Storing the PeerCast mode
      - Building the MainWindow.xaml UI
        
        Defining the four-cell grid
        
        The login cell
        
        The Message cell
        
        The Client controls cell
        
        Server controls and the media player cell
      - Adding the MainWindow.xaml Code
        
        MainWindow properties
        
        MainWindow constructor
        
        Signing in
        
        Receiving UI updates from ProgressChanged
        
        Toggling the UI
        
        Receiving a video list
        
        Deserializing the file list
        
        Playing a video
        
        Sending a Play message
        
        Sending a full-screen play message
        
        Getting a list of videos from the server
        
        Selecting the video streaming directory
        
        When P2pWorker completes
    - Final Thoughts
  - 6. TwitterVote
    - Overview
      - Twitter Rules and Limitations
    - Building TwitterVote
      - Twitter: Under the Hood
      - The Twitter API
      - Twitter Implementation
      - Voting Implementation
    - Displaying Results with Popfly
      - Embedding the Popfly Results Graph
      - Running the Application
      - Sample Poll and Results
    - Final Thoughts
  - 7. WHSMail: An Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server
    - Overview
    - Understanding the Setup
    - Architecture
    - Building the Host Application
    - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
      - Contracts and Entities
      - Configuration
    - Using Outlook and MAPI
    - ASP.NET "Client"
    - Deployment
      - WHSMailWeb
    - Running the Application
    - Final Thoughts
- III. Hardware
  - 8. Wiimote-controlled Car
    - Overview
    - Building the Hardware
      - Phidgets
      - Phidget 0/0/4 Interface Kit
      - Phidget 0/16/16 Interface Kit
    - Building the Software
      - Software Requirements
      - Software Implementation
        
        Special steps for 64-bit Windows users
    - Using the Application
      - Pairing the Wiimote
      - Installing the Phidget Interface Kit
      - Driving the Car
    - Final Thoughts
  - 9. Wiimote Whiteboard
    - Overview
    - Defining an Interactive Whiteboard
    - Using the Wii Remote Infrared Camera
    - Using IR Pens
      - Building the Circuit
      - Preparing the Dry-Erase Marker
    - Setting Up Your Project
    - Warping the Camera Coordinates
    - Touch Calibration
    - Putting It All Together
      - Parsing Data from the IR Camera
    - Using the Software
    - Final Thoughts
  - 10. Animated Musical Holiday Lights
    - Overview
    - Building the Hardware
      - Information on Amperages
    - Writing the Software
      - Software Requirements
      - Software Implementation
        
        Sequence
        
        Grid display
        
        Playing music
        
        Recording data
        
        Playing a sequence
      - Creating a Show
    - Final Thoughts
- A. Using the C4fStyle File for WPF Projects
  - C4fStyle Overview
    - Adding the C4fStyle File to Your Application
      - Generic and named styles
      - Style reference
      - Before and after
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
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