http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428We're pushing .NET technology to its limits. Come watch!en-ushttp://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3535032Let's look at a real, in the trenches SlimDX bug that results from a problematic subtlety in .NET. This &#111;ne isn't even fixed in trunk yet. Here's our main function of interest:<BR> <!--STARTSCRIPT--><!--source lang="cpp"--><div class="source"><pre> ge...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3533785<img src="http://members.gamedev.net/promit/newnoteworthy.jpg">http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3531927I promised this a long time ago, and here it is. I prefer to let the video speak for itself. This is a demo from January, so it’s actually a much older iteration of what we’ve got now.<BR> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJDmGD3yjd8">Link!</a></...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3528852<b><a href="http://audioghost.com/">Link<BR> <img src="http://members.gamedev.net/promit/aves-snap.jpg"></a></b><BR> I'll concede it doesn't look like much, but honestly, the game is really addictive and fun. And it's a <i>dollar</i>.<BR> <BR> One of the t...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3513925This post is a late copy from <a href="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/windows-api-code-pack-is-it-any-good/">Ventspace</a>.<hr><BR> Just to be clear, I'm restricting my comments to the DirectX section of the codepack. I'll probably be integratin...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3509283Let's recap. For about two months now, I've been working &#111;n a brand new profiling tool for .NET, C#, CLR, and all that jazz. It's open source, completely free, and supports frameworks 2.0 and later (no 1.x, sorry). Some of the notable features include...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3505899I decided to try out the dotTrace Profiler, which runs $200 for a personal license and $500 per developer for organizations. IOW, it's expensive. That $200 license makes it the cheapest of the commercial options, and I ran the trial &#111;n &#111;ne of my ...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3504549Hey, why not?<BR> <a href="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/080209-pies2.jpg"><img src="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/080209-pies2.jpg?w=300" alt="More pies, courtesy of my other monitor." title="080209-Pies2" width="300" height=...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3502466This is actually a combination of <i>two</i> Ventspace posts.<BR> <hr><BR> I guess what I posted must have made the rounds or something, cause three days after I said what I was doing, a new NProf was released. Here I went to all this trouble of creating a...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3499134So I was wondering, how do you decide at what frequency to sample when you're building a sampling based profiler?<BR> <BR> No, seriously. What are you supposed to punch in? I'm taking samples 4ms apart because it sounds less like a bullshit number than 1 o...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3494099Primarily due to Washu request!<BR> <a href="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/071809-nativemappings.jpg"><img src="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/071809-nativemappings.jpg?w=300" alt="Mappings, native functions included!" title="0...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3493513I've decided that "Windows API Code Pack" is far too long to say/write in casual conversation. WACP it is.<hr><BR> <BR> These are terms I came up with a few weeks ago, and I wanted to document them properly. I feel that they're good descriptions of what a ...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3493051At least, not to begin with. There are some drawbacks to not being a security professional, &#111;ne of which is that I have neither the qualifications nor the experience to do a proper security analysis of the profiler backend. Since I can't audit the bac...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3491914<a href="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/071509-mappings.jpg"><img src="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/071509-mappings.jpg?w=300" alt="Mappings test, July 15" title="071509 Mappings" width="300" height="207" class="size-medium wp...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=433428&reply_id=3490871I basically took last week off from blogging. Time to try and get some new entries out! Things have been very SlimDX focused, but what did you expect? It's what I do. Maybe today's will inspire a bit more general interest.<BR> <hr><BR> <BR> As a creature o...