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Webcast Series on C# Video Game Development 3/8: Game elements (in Spanish!)
Tomorrow at 15:00 GMT (that's 10:00 in Bogotá-Lima-Panamá-Quito) I'll be doing the third of our webcast series (¡en español!) on Game Development with Visual C# Express 2005. More info here.
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Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 CTP available for download
Ok, this is last week news already, but I think it's important enough to reiterate it: last Friday the August CTP of Enterprise Library 2.0, specifically targeted at .NET 2.0, was made available here. This is important for me for two reasons:
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SQL Server: very popular for new projects
According to this article, 51% of new projects chose SQL Server, fairly ahead Oracle (36.4%) that in turn is way ahead of the rest. Moreover, at least that what it seems like anyway, decision making was done without taking into account SQL Server 2005 which bring even more to the table.
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Webcast Series on C# Video Game Development (in Spanish!)
Basándonos en una exitosa serie de webcasts en inglés, nos vamos a introducir en los conceptos de la producción de juegos de video. A lo largo de ocho exposiciones, los presentadores demostrarán las etapas clave en el desarrollo de un motor de juegos a través de la creación de un juego de acción top-down llamado “Star Trooper”, usando Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, el nuevo ambiente de desarrollo de Microsoft diseñado para programadores principiantes. Los ocho webcasts de esta serie son: