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By litdev January 20, 2014
This article is an introduction to graphical game programming using Small Basic. It includes the basics of program design, movement, user interaction with keys and mouse, collision detection and introduces some more advanced ideas at the end. Along the way we create a very simple game with the main features required for more complex game design…
By johnsom January 20, 2014
Users like to embed report charts in PowerPoint by including an image snapshot of the chart with the correct parameters specified. SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) does not include export to JPEG or PNG in the SharePoint report viewer web part by default even though SSRS supports report rendering in these formats…
By Naomi N January 19, 2014
Recently in the MSDN Transact-SQL forum thread Please help with dynamic pivot query/ CTE/ SSRS I provided a solution for a very common scenario of generating report for last N (10 in that particular case) years (months, days, hours, etc.) of data…
By Reed Kimble January 19, 2014
Sometimes when you are designing a form, or creating some other kind of visual output, you'd like to generate an array of colors which may be shades of a single color or a discernible sequence of individual colors such as the spectrum of a rainbow. This can be useful for coloring bars in a graph or generating a gradient around some specified color. Unfortunately the .Net framework does not give us any sophisticated solution for this…
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