Hossam

today i had to make silverlight call WCF service so i made a normal wcf service and try to consume it with silverlight and it didn't work ,so i start the debug jury and it lead to no where ,then i serve the forums , blogs ,and documentation but no solution
you can check on silverlight forum.
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/1119/2597.aspx
then i suspected that maybe silverlight client access policy is a must to connect to web service even in debug mode  so i added  clientaccesspolicy.xml  to my wcf  service and it works fine now

the code for clientaccesspolicy.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<access-policy>
  <cross-domain-access>
    <policy>
      <allow-from>
        <domain uri="*"/>
      </allow-from>
      <grant-to>
        <resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/>
      </grant-to>
    </policy>
  </cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

just today i had to make a demo for some augmented reality application for a customer
my development machine has windows XP SP2 and my demo machine has Vista
i developed the application using VS 2008 C++ so xcopy should work fine but not with Vista !
i keep getting the error:
" The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail "

that doesn't make sense, my application doesn't have any side-by-side configuration
i tried to change the application compatibility and it didn't work
so i googeld the error and found link to the msdn
yes that should be it
but no
so i searched the msdn and found

How to: Deploy using XCopy

that should be it
what i need is to copy
%WindowsSdkDir%\Bootstrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86\vcredist_x86.exe
to the demo machine and it should work

but no the error still the same

i noticed while installing vcredist_x86.exe that it say vs2005 run time !

i found that the new runtime fro vs2008 dose not came with vs2008 instead ms ship vs2008 with the old run time
so i download the new run time from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/1/1116b75a-9ec3-481a-a3c8-1777b5381140/vcredist_x86.exe
and that is it
it works :)
i don't know who i should blame for this wasted time

hi every body,

the chosen title for this post "Game Development" not "Game Programming" because making a game is not just about Programming or writing code.

since that is the first post, here is a list some topics i will write about in this blog

1. Game Programming
2. Game Engines
3. 3D Programming
4. 3D Modling
5. Optmization
6. 2D Graphics
7. Simulation
8. Visualization
9. AI
10. Stereoscopic
11. Augmented Reality
12. Game development tools
13. WPF