Preface Wikipedia says that interoperability is “a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate)”. Regarding software, it says that interoperability is “the capability of different programs to exchange data via a common set of exchange forma

These last days, I had the change to mess up with the Localization infrastructure inside Visual Studio 2008. I must realize it´s the first time I seriously get into this issue, and I´m impressed with the work done on it. When one needs to give an application multi-language support, the first tempta

ManagedDirectx is quite a bit outdated, and no longer supported by Microsoft, but it will make it for this example on custom action mapping. I´d suggest you to go XNA or SlimDX if you want to do some serious .Net graphics or game development. What´s this post about? It´s about having a decent cont

[This article is a very easy and simple introduction to the concepts of lighting in games, it´s history and the tendency this field is following] It is certainly impossible to talk about lighting models in realtime 3D graphics without a mention to John Carmack, co-founder of Id Software, and one of

[This post is a refresh version of an older post published here] Determining if any two 3D objects intersect and get useful information about the intersection is not an easy task. Especially if you want to do it fast. The key to optimize these calculations is to quick discard non colliding objects,

In this post, I will try to explain the basic concepts of content processing inside XNA and the simplest way to customize it.

[Traducido al Español por Matías Cordero. Puedes leer la versión en Castellano aqui] Everyone knows that parallelization is a hard but important issue, as it seems that it´s not affordable anymore to increase CPU clock speeds. The future is multi-core! So you should start getting familiar with Syst

  [This article is a collage of this previous two articles: first and second, and shows how to create a custom button in a toolbar which collapses all your solution projects. Useful if you have solutions with more than 50 projects, like in my case.]   Part 1: Collapse All Projects in th

[This article continues the prelude about collision detection published here. It refreshes and completes the older Collision detection in XNA posts –parts I, II and III-, written a long time ago and which were demanded to be completed many times. Finally, here it is] Simple Collision Detection XN

Learn how to sign C++/CLI assemblies with a strong name.

Yesterday, a friend asked me if I knew of any C# implementation of a Circle Packing algorithm. In fact, I didn’t, but searching a bit I found this algorithm, and this Java Applet implementation.  Packing of different circles into a 2D space, trying to minimize the unused space, is a typical g