Shall we play a game???  Immortal words for those of us that grew up in the 80s.  This installment of Spaghetti Code is all about developing games with XNA and guest, Chris Williams.  Chris is a Microsoft MVP, head of the Twin Cities XNA User Group, and developer of the classic game Heroic Adventure.  Chris and I sit down and talk about game development with XNA, getting started, technical stuff, and game development in general.

Jason Bock, Microsoft MVP, visits Spaghetti Code and talks about dynamic programming with Microsoft .NET.  We cover the two primary "types" of dynamic programming and discuss when and where each may be applicable.  We also spend time talking about Jason's community involvement with the launching of the Twin Cities Languages User Group and the upcoming Twin Cities Code Camp.  And remember, if you enjoy Spaghetti Code podcasts, please tell others about them. 

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I had a chance to sit down with ASP.NET MVP and long time friend Javier Lozano to talk about his investigations into Ruby, RoR and ASP.NET MVC.  Javier is huge part of the local Des Moines and greater Midwest developer community and is a lot of fun to talk to.  I was able to catch up with him during a recent visit to the Iowa .NET User Group and record this podcast. 

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I sat down with Matt Milner, Microsoft MVP, to discuss building connected systems on the Microsoft platform.  It was a great talk that covered things like Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, the role of Biztalk, best practices, challenges and more.  Matt is a great speaker and provided a lot of great information.

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The MyTube project (download v0.0001 here) continues on with yet another example of getting your video your way.  Just when I think I'm done, it keeps pulling me back in!  Or something to that effect.

While at the Iowa Code Camp, I was talking to someone about the MyTube code and I casually mentioned that you could take the solution I had built and you could quickly build a WPF client to show Silverlight Streaming content.  I boastfully said I could have it up and running in about 20 minutes.  Well, it took me longer than that and I still didn't put the minimal "fit and finish" work I did on my Silverlight version, but it works.  The thing that slowed me down the most was that my web hoster does not like non-browsers pulling down resources, even something as innocuous as an ATOM feed.  Once I figured out what was going on, I had to add "browser-like" header information to the request coming out of my WPF app.  After that, I wrestled with trying to get a progress indicator working as the video played, but after 10 minutes I punted since it is not as straightforward as it is in Silverlight.  Hopefully that is something that will be fixed soon because the only solution I could find was a royal pain compared to what Silverlight provides out of the box.  WPF and Silverlight are certainly cousins, but there are a few things that are different enough to drive you a bit batty.

If you are interested in the bare bones SLS via WPF app, you can download it here.