Soooo much to do sooo little time. Some goodies while you wait for the real stuff...
Well, I figured I'd throw my presentation decks up in a zip format so that people could download those without having to view the entire web-cast. I'm not sure if just the decks are available over the MSDN website, and since I couldn't find the link, I assume others might have some trouble. If anyone knows how to get a transcripted version of the web-casts or links to the slide-decks on a network that doesn't cost me money, then let me know so I could change the links ;-)
Developing a Poker Game in C# Express 2005.zip 297KB
Developing an RTC Application in C# Express 2005.zip 3.4MB
The RTC demo contains some whiteboard pictures and for some odd reason I couldn't get the pictures to compress very well. Saving them as JPEG files gives them a really bad dithering effect, so I've been resorting to TIFF since that gives me the best visuals. Realizing the whiteboard stuff is only black and white should mean that a black and white scale gif should work well, but I've had poor luck with GIF file formats as well. Anyway, becoming a master at file compression techniques using a disparate collection of tools isn't in my list of things to do, but if I get the chance to write some software for the process maybe I'll look at providing a better format for the images later.
Anyway, for those waiting on some source code for the RTC webcast, shortly, and for the Solitaire sample, also shortly. I wound up doing some extra work on the book to provide some heavily enhanced samples. For those wondering, check out the hand-drawn deck and how well it is coming together. The artist is done with these and we'll be using them as is, along with some compositing features to produce the final embossed card.
