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Keep your guns pointed at stuff! No excuses! How to do it with beautiful old school sprites!

Man, I miss the good old days of classic video games. Now that I'm trying to start writing a few games myself, I'd love to take my old sprites and bring them forward, but how can I maintain that silky smooth pixelated goodness?

RoamingSettings is a great way to roam configuration data between your machines, but sometimes you want to keep more complex data than a simple string. Here's how you can do it.

Windows Azure Mobile Services is the bomb, but how can we work with enum values?

Are you developing iOS apps? Is it more than a toy? Need a data service? Want to send some push notifications? Ready to step up to the big leagues and get a cloud service to handle all of that? Want to provision that cloud back end in a matter of seconds?

Need to hook up your Flash app to Windows Azure Blob Storage? Here's how.

Configuring Live SDK to allow your Windows 8 Application to use it.

Ok, in the previous post we determined how we could attach to LocalDB using SSMS 2012. Next stop, creating a database. Turns out that it's potentially harder than it seems at first.

I've been reinstalling a bunch of software on my brand new Win8 machines, and decided to keep a lightweight SQL development experience, so I installed the brand new 2012 LocalDB + SSMS. But then...

Looking for my slides and code from the super-awesome-event-with-his-Gu-ness in Dallas? Here's the place...