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I have been trying to revive my little raphics engine and UI project ever since Mickeysoft thought that it would be a great idea to kill off XNA. They wanted to herd us over to Win8 Metro (cr)apps, but I did not feel like rewriting all that code, nor ever putting anything into their (Cr)AppStore.
My only chance to revive the whole thing is to replace XNA by MonoGame, which started out as a reincarnation of XNA. Replacing the references was the easy part. The .Net code compiles and works. There are a few warnings for using methods which have become obsolete, but still are included for compatibility.
The real issue was with compiling and including the graphics resources, including the shaders. Think of them as declarations of data structures and functions which run on the graphics processor. The shaders were written for HLSL 2.0, the MonoGame compiler expected at least ver. 4.0.
For starters I converted only my test program for the graphics engine. It worked, but the particle effects were not rendered at all. The shader for the particles was a little more complex. It does not only do the transformations and texture mapping. It also calculates the animation of the particles on the GPU. The shader compiled without errors or warnings, the test program runs fine and displays everything with exception of the particles.
To make things short: The input structure of the shader had to be declared differently in version 4.0. The input values did not get mapped to the right variables and remained 0. The shader rendered lots of totally transparent pixels at coordinates (0, 0).
Time for some bragging. 
This is my test program. The whole scene is scripted with XAML, including the camera which moves through a series of waypoints. I also made the models and the textures, so be easy on me. I'm not an artist.
This is a screenshot of a transport on a landing platform.[^]
The particle effects were started by pressing F1. Up to now that means that nothing happened at all. This is what it looks like now![^]
Looks like the graphics engine is back from the dead. Now I can't wait to get the UI working again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wow... Just wow...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I liked David tennant portrayal of santa clause in miracle on 34th st. Also Patrick troughton was good as the diplodocus in Jurassic park.
But I don't watch a lot of movies so what the hell do I know?
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Sean Pertwee.
Failing that, Lady Gaga.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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One word... Bieber.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Maybe they can lose him in a trans-dimensional warp of some kind! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hmm. He's Canadian, and Canadia is part of the British Commonwealth, so he might even be eligible to play the role.
Be careful what you wish for, because a lot of people might blame you for it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bring it to the modern youth: Dora the Explorer
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Take a leaf out of the USA trend and find somebody famous for something completely unrelated to the task: Prince Harry? Or if they want to go another older doc: Boris Johnson (MP)?
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Lopatir wrote: Take a leaf out of the USA trend and find somebody famous for something completely unrelated to the task
What are you referring too? 
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Christopher Eccleston was always my favourite but there no chance of him coming back 
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think they should have a completely CG Doctor; stay at the forefront.
Or get Sacha Baron Cohen, who appears able to play absolutely any character absolutely convincingly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Love the first comment... 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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"Anyone not wishing to learn about, discuss, or contribute positively to the present and future of Visual Basic should find their soapbox elsewhere."
Please take your post to the soapbox 
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Well there goes all the fun.
Jeremy Falcon
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One of the comments:
Thanks, Anthony! While I’m not now, nor have I ever been a Visual Basic user, I’m 10000% in support of your no-bashing policy. I’m sure my VB-loving friends will appreciate a safe space to learn about and discuss their favorite language.
Reading that one, it's beyond any shadow of doubt that these gentle creatures have been historically subjected to brutal bullying by the rest of the clan. I shouldn't be laughing. Like, at all. But sorry, I find it funny.
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I'm sure they're relaunching development under the project name: Snowflake
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Bashing of any version of the Visual Basic product family or their users will no longer be given a platform here.
Feeling a bit insecure, are we?
Marc
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And justifiably so, they're VB programmers.
Jeremy Falcon
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They actually got enough VB programmers together to make a team?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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This will make a great difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We should have an official CP Lounge VB day.
All the positivity of a year's worth of VB blog messages would be soundly countered by the negativity unleashed on that day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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