Category Archives: Silverlight

Tap N Match a cool WP7 game ! Vote on Facebook !

Today I need help from all my readers across the globe ! Please vote for our TapNMatch WP7 game here

Microsoft France is organizing since a couple of months a Windows Phone 7 contest in order to create cool applications. Applications are demonstrated using a short video which is posted on Facebook. The goal is to have the maximum number of “Like” in order to be selected for the final.10 applications are going to be selected, and on October 7th, each selected developers will have to present very quickly (2min) its application in front of an amazing jury made of Steve Ballmer and CEOs of french companies.

A coworker and I have been working on a Windows Phone 7 game called Tap N Match created using Silverlight. The goal of the game is to associate “targets” which have a number either by creating pairs (5;5) or sequences (1;2). Here is quick description of the game:

  • best scores are recorded in the cloud using Windows Azure
  • use of the Bing APIs in order to determine the country of the player when posting a new score
  • use of the Pivot control

Here is the presentation of our application on YouTube:

In order to vote for our application:

  1. Go to : http://www.facebook.com/Developpeurs.net
  2. “Like” this page
  3. Go to the video of my game : http://www.facebook.com/Developpeurs.net#!/video/video.php?v=434150728926
  4. “Like” my video 🙂

Thank you very much for your help !

MSDN Ultimate Subscription Giveaway

IMG_0833 As a Microsoft MVP for this year, I got 3 MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions to share with friends and co-workers. I already gave 2 of them to co-workers and I’d like to offer the last one to one of my reader !

The “official” pricing for the MSDN Ultimate Subscription is $11,899. The subscription is valid one year and is not restricted to US only. The MSDN Ultimate has the following items (among many others – you can see the detailed list here):

  • Windows Azure Platform
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
  • Visual Studio TFS 2010
  • Expression Studio Ultimate
  • Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008
  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Project Professional 2010, Visio Premium 2010

In order to take your chance to get this subscription:

  • let a comment on this blog post
  • explain what you would like to do with the subscription
  • share you blog address, community website or whatever to show how you’re involved in the .Net community

Contest is now over. The winner of the MSDN Ultimate License is Mike Strobel. Thank you all for letting a comment, I which I had more subscriptions to giveaway…

MVVM Frameworks Explorer updated

Today I’m releasing a new version of my MVVM Frameworks Explorer application. You can find the updated version here: http://www.japf.fr/silverlight/mvvm/index.html

Here is a list of the changes in this new version:

  • application updated to Silverlight 4
  • support is now detailed for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone
  • new frameworks added (MEFedMVVM…)
  • framework’s logo added
  • download count added (based on the information I found on CodePlex website)
  • about window

As always, feel free to give feedback 🙂