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Introductory XNA - showing Visual C# to programming students

The presentation is based on the out of box help file. It demonstrates the basics of object oriented programming via Visual C# in a game development set up. This encourages understanding of integration of graphic library (DirectX), .NET framework and the building of applications. There are demos to show the use of sprite, walking through the help documents, and encouraging students to develop different extensions of a basic game program add different redrawing and update features, shaders, and 3D programming. it demonstrates the richness of DirectX 9.0 graphics. This introduction is basic to adopting .NET Framework 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 in the academic development ecosystem.

C#

Windows Workflow Foundation for Academics

Slides for presenting Windows Workflow, a background document for workflow and BizTalk perspectives (BPM etc.), a best practice document on using the HOL for demo to different types of academic/enterprise audience. It highlights the application modeling and development messages for workflow along with the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for WWF. 

WinFx

Microsoft Robotics Studio and Visual Programming Language (VPL)

Microsoft Robotics Studio provides a powerful visual programming language system with a complete IDE (Interactive Development Environment) for a simple but very powerful approach to building Robotics solutions. This system is called the Visual Programming Language and comes with the MSRS package. The presentation introduces this system, walks through its building blocks and the IDE, configures to show how to integrate the programming with Robotics services and demonstrates both a simulation and a hardware based drive-by-wire application. The highlight is the power of the VPL for building large and complex robotics applications - allowing multiple robots and more complex environment as it hides the details of service access, low level message definition etc and other concurrency issues. The demo is in the drive-by-wire folder.

Robotics

Seminar on Windows Workflow in System Design

System models can be directly implemented in Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.  This is a base feature of Microsoft Windows current and future operating platforms for application development on .NET 3.0.  System models based on workflow represent abstract models of a system and can be directly implemented. This provides the advantage of being able to keep a very close relationship between model and implementations.

The seminar is geared towards senior and graduate students of system engineering in consultation with faculty at UMUC. Particular features of the WWF that are highlighted is the design to implementation round tripping and integration feature of applications built on WWF. The system engineering audience is given the option of relating regular modelling tools and WWF during presentation.

.NET

Seminar on Microsoft SharePoint services/servers

This seminar is for MBA, MIS or IS students providing them insights into the WSS and MOSS product line. It uses the SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) installed on a Virtual PC image. It demonstrates the features projected in the SLK as well as generic features of the collaboration and content management services. It shows how to use the SharePoint Configuration site to create new team sites, groups, users and document sites.

ASP.NET

Introduce C# programming via XNA - updated for released version.

The presentation is an update on the earlier material on the same topic for the XNA Spring 07 released version. It is also based on the out of box help file. It demonstrates the basics of object oriented programming via Visual C# in a game development set up. This encourages understanding of integration of graphic library (DirectX), .NET framework and the building of application. There are demos to show the use of sprite, walking through the help documents, and encouraging students to develop different extensions of a basic game program add different redrawing and update features, shaders, and 3D programming using 3D graphics files from the spacewar game. It demonstrates the richness of DirectX 9.0 graphics. This introduction is basic to adopting .NET Framework 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 in the academic development ecosystem.

XNA

MapPoint Web Service Helper

MapPoint Web Services enable applications to find locations, render maps, retrieve driving directions, find points of interest (e.g. ATM, Banks, Gas Stations...) near locations.  There is a bit of a learning curve to using MapPoint Web Services due to their power and flexibility.  This project provides a small and simple .NET library that makes beginning to use MapPoint Web Services much simpler to use.  Demos and PowerPoint files provide context for use.  This updated version supports using this library in web applications.

Visual Studio 2005