Subverting Visual Studio

I have recently come across ankhsvn, a free plugin that allows you to use the Subversion version control system. This will be useful for further investigation into the Google .Net api. other useful links -> .Net Gdata online documentation

Plane Projection in Silverlight 3

The latest Silverlight 3 release has included Plane Projection transformations that allow 2 dimensional controls to be projected in 3 dimensions. An excellent article to read to get a feel on how to use the transformations to create psuedo 3d effects -> http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2009/06/03/silverlight3-planeprojection-primer.aspx A quick example emulating this flash template using the Silverlight 3 PlaneProjection can be found here

Embedding Flex Components

Ok, so before I start I have to say that the control is not actually embedded, all I managed it to do is get control as an image and apply it as a material to the plane. Click the image to the right to see the demo you can view the source by right clicking the demo. I am working on getting the material to update when the control updates but that may be a while before it is working perfectly, as this is all I need for the project template.

Reflection

Ok step two was the reflection and now it is done, click on the image below too see the demo.

The source is available if you right click the demo

Using an Embedded Flex Image in Papervision3D

One of the problems had setting up the demo in the previous post was using embedded flex images for materials in the Papervision 3D scene, here is the solution. Create a variable for with the embedded image and the variable for the material.

[Embed(source="assets/earthmap.jpg")]
public var earthMap:Class;
private var moonMaterial:BitmapMaterial;

Create a new BitmapAsset variable cad cast the image class to it.

var earthAsset:BitmapAsset = new earthMap() as BitmapAsset;

Finally assign the new variable as a material.

earthMaterial = new BitmapMaterial(earthAsset.bitmapData);

Papervision3D

Ok so I have started and the first thing I realised when I looked at the template is that it was doing stuff in 3D so I figured that I probably need to learn how to do that. The template was called Ultra biz papervision 3d flash I figured that Papervision3D is what was doing all the 3D heavy lifting it turns out I was right. I downloaded the swc and tried to work it out, this is what I managed.

To view the source right click the movie and select view source.

Project Template

A few weeks ago after spending ages trying to make a cross browser Javascript application and ending up with two lots of code one for IE 7 and one for the rest of the browsers, I decided that there must be a better way enter flex.

I spent a week doing the flex in a week and then it was time to come up with an project to see how this flex thing really works. This is where the contest I won came into play I won $100 of templates and got this template so I figured what better way to learn flex that to try and recreate it using flex instead of boring old flex so project template was born, I will update here as I work through it with all source code included.