Coding4Fun. 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More Dan Fernandez, Brian Peek

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• Coding4Fun
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  • A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  • Preface
    • Who This Book Is For
    • What You Need to Use This Book
    • How This Book Is Organized
    • Conventions Used in This Book
    • About the Code
    • Using Code Examples
    • Comments and Questions
    • Safari Books Online
    • Acknowledgments
      • From Dan Fernandez
      • From Brian Peek
  • I. Gaming
    • 1. Alien Attack
      • Overview
      • Setup
      • Windows Version
        • Screens
          • Title screen
          • InputManager
        • Back to the Game
        • Seeing the Title Screen
        • Game Screen
          • Adding GameScreen to the main game
          • Sound engine
          • Player ship and sprites
          • Player shots
          • Scoring and lives remaining
          • Enemies
          • EnemyGroup
          • Collision detection and explosions
        • Running the Application
      • Xbox 360 and Zune Support
        • Xbox 360
        • Zune
      • Final Thoughts
    • 2. LEGO Soldier: A 2-D LEGO Side-Scroller Popfly Game
      • Overview
      • Popfly Game Creator Terms
      • Building LEGO Soldier Step-by-Step
      • Building the Popfly Game
      • Designing Custom Actors
        • Designing a LEGO Model Using LEGO Digital Designer
        • Exporting a LEGO Model
        • Cropping out Empty Space
        • Upload Images to Popfly
        • Building an Actor in the Actor Designer
        • Adding a Health Bar and a Scoreboard
      • Importing Actors
      • Designing the Main Scene
        • Designing the Main Scene
        • Adding the Two Cave Background Actor Files
        • Tiling the Background
        • Tiling the Ground Floor
        • Designing the First Half of the Scene
        • Designing the Second Half of Our Scene
      • Building Game Properties
      • Building Behaviors
        • Renaming Behaviors
      • Building the Main Scene Behaviors
        • Using Shortcuts to Build the Main Scene Behaviors
        • Building a Property Change Behavior to Reset the Health Property
        • Creating a Custom Code Behavior
        • Adding Main Actor Behaviors Using Shortcuts
        • Building the Catapult Behavior
      • Building the LEGO Security Actor Behaviors
        • Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts
        • Setting a Random Jump Behavior
        • Adding a Random Motion Behavior
        • Adding a Shooting Behavior
        • Adding a Disappear Behavior
      • Building the Fire Bullet Projectile Behaviors
        • Updating the DisappearOnCollision Behavior
        • Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Property
      • Building the LEGO Skeleton Behavior
        • Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts
        • Updating the Jump Behavior
        • Creating a Behavior to Follow the Main Actor
        • Setting the Skeleton Disappear Behavior
        • Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Value
      • Adding Behaviors for the Barrel Actor
        • Adding the Gravity Shortcut for the Barrel Actor
        • Adding the Disappear Behavior
      • Building the HealthBar Behaviors
        • Building a Custom Code Behavior for Updating the HealthBars HealthValue
        • Creating a Scene Change Behavior to End the Game
      • Adding the Blind Scientist Behaviors
        • Adding a Custom Code Behavior to Call the Grow Animation Storyboard
        • Adding Random Left and Right Motion Behaviors
        • Adding a Behavior to Lower the Health Value
        • Adding the Scene Change Behavior to Win the Game
      • Publishing Your Game
        • Publishing to Facebook
      • Final Thoughts
    • 3. FEED READER: An In-Game RSS Reader for World of Warcraft
      • Overview
        • Running Feed Grabber
        • Feed Reader
        • Feed Reader Slash Commands
      • Before We Get Started
        • A Quick Tour of the Lua Programming Language
          • Lua types
          • Variable scopes
          • Lua functions
          • Understanding Lua tables
          • Feed Reader's Lua table
        • FrameXML 101
          • Layout
          • AddOn Studio for designing FrameXML
          • Templates
          • Events
      • Understanding the Feed Reader Addon
        • Dissecting Feed Reader
        • How Feed Reader and Feed Grabber Work
        • The Feed Reader UI
          • Frames
        • Adding Code for Frame.xml
          • Global variables
          • Defining a variable as a saved variable
          • Registering for Warcraft events
          • The SelectFeed and SelectFeedItems functions
          • The SelectFeedItem function
          • The UpdateFeeds and UpdateFeedItems functions
          • The UpdateFeeds function
          • The UpdateFeedItems function
          • Updating the summary
          • OnClick event for Feed buttons
          • OnClick event for FeedItem buttons
          • Adding a basic slash command
      • Feed Grabber
        • Common Feed List
          • Programmatically getting feeds
          • Serializing to Lua
          • Sneaking in data updates by monitoring the Saved Variables file
      • Final Thoughts
  • II. Software and Web
    • 4. InnerTube: Download, Convert, and Sync YouTube Videos
      • Overview
        • InnerTube's Main UI
        • Running InnerTube for the First Time
        • Adding Videos
      • How InnerTube Works
      • How YouTube's API Works
        • Standard YouTube Feeds
        • User-Specific YouTube Feeds
        • YouTube Search
        • Optional Query String Parameters
        • Other Important YouTube URLs
      • Building Classes for YouTube Feeds and Videos
      • Calling the InnerTubeService Class
        • Converting YouTube XML into .NET Objects
      • Downloading Videos from YouTube
        • Downloading a YouTube Video with Your Browser
        • YouTube Blocks You (by Design)
        • Getting a Session Token from JavaScript
        • Houston, We Have a Token!
        • Getting a Token Programmatically
        • Downloading the Video
        • Downloading a Video's Thumbnail Image
      • Converting YouTube Videos Using ffmpeg
      • Syncing YouTube Videos to iTunes and Zune
        • Syncing Videos to iTunes
        • Syncing Videos to Zune
          • Zune monitored folders
      • Putting It All Together
        • Calling InnerTubeFeedWorker
      • Setting Up the InnerTube WPF Application
        • Global Variables
        • Application Settings
      • Building the InnerTube UI
      • InnerTube Skeleton
      • Dissecting MainWindow.xaml
        • Setting the MainWindow.xaml data context
        • Part 1: The Feed List ListBox
          • Data binding the feedList ListBox
        • Part 2: The VideoList ListBox
        • The Data Template UI
        • Data Binding the Video List ListBox
        • Binding to an Image
        • Building the Image Value Converter
        • Setting Up a Class As a Static Resource
        • Part 3: The Details Pane
        • Formatting Numbers in WPF
        • Data Binding in the Details Pane
        • Data Binding to User Controls
        • MediaPlayer User Control UI
        • MediaPlayer Data Binding
        • Playing and Pausing Video
      • Final Thoughts
    • 5. PeerCast: Watch Videos on Your PC Anywhere in the World
      • Overview
      • A Tour of PeerCast
        • Client or Server Mode
          • Server mode
          • Client mode
      • How PeerCast Works
        • How Peer Channel Applications Work
          • Key P2P terms
          • Peer Channel by example
        • Building a Peer Channel Application
          • Listening to P2P messages asynchronously
          • Structuring messages from the background thread to the UI thread
        • The NetworkManager Class
          • NetworkManager variables and constructor
          • Starting a connection
          • Running on a background thread
          • Subscribing to P2PLib events
          • Reporting progress to the UI thread while we wait for a connection
          • Keeping the BackgroundWorker thread alive
        • Listening to P2P Events Using Network Manager
          • Understanding how the login process works
          • The StatusChanged event
          • Sending commands using chat messages
          • Understanding how chat messages work
          • Receiving chat messages in the ChatChanged event handler
          • Processing commands on the server
          • The GetList ChatCommand
        • Using C4FP2P to Stream Videos
          • Understanding how video streaming works
          • Setting up a video stream
          • Two different StreamChanged events
          • The P2PLib StreamChanged event
          • Logging messages when streaming a video
          • Finished streaming a video
          • Ending a connection
      • Building the Application UI
        • Choosing the Application Mode
          • Storing the PeerCast mode
        • Building the MainWindow.xaml UI
          • Defining the four-cell grid
          • The login cell
          • The Message cell
          • The Client controls cell
          • Server controls and the media player cell
        • Adding the MainWindow.xaml Code
          • MainWindow properties
          • MainWindow constructor
          • Signing in
          • Receiving UI updates from ProgressChanged
          • Toggling the UI
          • Receiving a video list
          • Deserializing the file list
          • Playing a video
          • Sending a Play message
          • Sending a full-screen play message
          • Getting a list of videos from the server
          • Selecting the video streaming directory
          • When P2pWorker completes
      • Final Thoughts
    • 6. TwitterVote
      • Overview
        • Twitter Rules and Limitations
      • Building TwitterVote
        • Twitter: Under the Hood
        • The Twitter API
        • Twitter Implementation
        • Voting Implementation
      • Displaying Results with Popfly
        • Embedding the Popfly Results Graph
        • Running the Application
        • Sample Poll and Results
      • Final Thoughts
    • 7. WHSMail: An Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server
      • Overview
      • Understanding the Setup
      • Architecture
      • Building the Host Application
      • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
        • Contracts and Entities
        • Configuration
      • Using Outlook and MAPI
      • ASP.NET "Client"
      • Deployment
        • WHSMailWeb
      • Running the Application
      • Final Thoughts
  • III. Hardware
    • 8. Wiimote-controlled Car
      • Overview
      • Building the Hardware
        • Phidgets
        • Phidget 0/0/4 Interface Kit
        • Phidget 0/16/16 Interface Kit
      • Building the Software
        • Software Requirements
        • Software Implementation
          • Special steps for 64-bit Windows users
      • Using the Application
        • Pairing the Wiimote
        • Installing the Phidget Interface Kit
        • Driving the Car
      • Final Thoughts
    • 9. Wiimote Whiteboard
      • Overview
      • Defining an Interactive Whiteboard
      • Using the Wii Remote Infrared Camera
      • Using IR Pens
        • Building the Circuit
        • Preparing the Dry-Erase Marker
      • Setting Up Your Project
      • Warping the Camera Coordinates
      • Touch Calibration
      • Putting It All Together
        • Parsing Data from the IR Camera
      • Using the Software
      • Final Thoughts
    • 10. Animated Musical Holiday Lights
      • Overview
      • Building the Hardware
        • Information on Amperages
      • Writing the Software
        • Software Requirements
        • Software Implementation
          • Sequence
          • Grid display
          • Playing music
          • Recording data
          • Playing a sequence
        • Creating a Show
      • Final Thoughts
  • A. Using the C4fStyle File for WPF Projects
    • C4fStyle Overview
      • Adding the C4fStyle File to Your Application
        • Generic and named styles
        • Style reference
        • Before and after
  • Index
  • About the Authors
  • Colophon
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