MY ARTICLE IS ON THE FINALS!!!

Someone pinch me please since I must be dreaming ... I made it into the finals !!!

I would like to thank all the readers that supported my article "XNA & Beyond: The Path To VS 2008". I really appreciate your comments, your messages and your votes.

Also, thanks a lot to the judges for picking my article and of course, The Code Project team. I cannot express in words how happy I am, but trust me when I say this emotion is huge.

And what can I comment about Visual Studio 2008? Best of the best ... it rules!

Finally, I would like to thank the XNA Team for giving us this incredible framework that is getting better and better as we speak: XNA Game Studio.

Well, I don't know whether I'll get beyond this nomination to the finals, but having reached this far gives me renewed energy to keep on writing articles.

Happy new year 2008 everybody!!! This is a great way for me to start the year :)

Cheers!
Pete

WELL GUYS, THIS IS IT ...

As we approach this year-end the time for voting for my article is vanishing quickly.

For those who may not know it yet, the article is participating on a contest that ends tomorrow where there are two places left to enter the finals.

As I'm competing with many "heavy-weight" experienced authors I hope that those who haven't voted so far, decide to give me a friendly hand and vote for it.

BTW, I'll be out tomorrow so I want to wish you a Happy New Year 2008!

Cheers!

Pete

HOW TO: XNA-BASED GAME ON A WEBPAGE

For those of you interested in my article ("Xna & Beyond"), I have -what I consider- an interesting update (btw, don't forget to vote for my article since it's on a compo!).

You may remember that I was trying to investigate how to use the Silverlight technology with XNA. The bad news is that v1.1_alpha does not allow to host WinForms controls; the good news is that v2 -the new name for the final release of v1.1- will do!

I didn't want to wait so thinking more on the problem, I remembered how to embed an .NET assembly into a web page. Digging further into the subject I finally succeded. Read the section The "Silverlight" At The End Of The Tunnel for details and also download the new sample code.

A strong word of warning here: the new example code provided in the article is for learning purposes only. So do not recommend -as I don't recommend it- anyone to modify his/her machine's security giving full trust to any assemblies or websites since it could open the door for security risks.

Maybe I should start and hold a project at CodePlex. I don't know ... we shall see ;)

Well, enjoy!