for(;;) == while(true)
= true! And here’s the proof.
.Net Tips – Use Request and Response objects
We’ve all been there before, write a simple service with a simple method: As time goes by, the simple method gets more complicated, and the list of parameters grows and eventually simple method is overloaded to provide more variety and simple method is simple no more! A simple solution to this is the Request-Response pattern, …
Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID
By now, Windows 7 is almost old news and most of you would have been using or at least seen Windows 7 and one of the first things that should have caught your attention is the redesigned task bar. The new task bar are visually much more pleasant and functionally it has also introduced a …
Cars have arrived in SuperFun Town!
Yup, you’ve heard right, finally you can have some moving parts in your town! All you need is to build a ‘Used Car Dealer’ (see images below) in your town so the town folks can start buying cars to drive their kids to school or generally move around the town. You will start seeing the …
.Net Tips – Checking the current OS version
You can find out some useful information about the OS your application is running in by using the Environment.OSVersion property: You can also easily check for the minimum OS version:
Static vs. Non-Static method in C#
I stumbled across some interesting discussions on how they differ from non-static methods, here’s a summary of what I learnt. The Static Keyword In C# terms, “static” means “relating to the type itself, rather than an instance of the type”. You access a static member using the type name instead of a reference or a …
Make use of the stack trace
As you’re debugging and stepping through your code in Visual Studio, you will no doubt have come across the Call Stack window in Visual Studio: You can get access to the same stack trace information using the StackTrace and StackFrame class and this opens up some interesting possibilities. For instance, you can have a Log …
Understanding the lack of static method in Interface in C#
In C# there is no way to define a static method in an interface: This lack of static method can be painful at times, and on the surface one feels there is no reason why it can’t/shouldn’t be supported by the language. But after ploughing through forum discussions and numerous questions on StackOverflow I start …
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SuperFunTown! Guide Part 4 – Look That Kills
For me, the thing that sets SuperFunTown apart form other city building games on Facebook is the ability to customize and change your town in a way that makes it truly unique! There are a number of powerful tools at your disposal, for example: Everything is rotatable in the game You know how some games …
ChartBeat – real-time analytics tool for your website
For my line of work we use a number of tools to monitor and track user activities in our games, among these is a little known web app called ChartBeat. It provides real-time analytics data on what’s happening on your page, how many people are looking at your page, what are they looking at, etc. …
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