.NET IRC and Bots.

Some IRC libraries and chat clients for a project idea I have.
http://www.codeplex.com/GibberMonkey/
http://smuxi.meebey.net/jaws/?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartirc4net/

Cool bot ideas, all tho they are little old.
http://prelude.lennart-lopin.de/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spikenet
http://abbot.berlios.de/

I have been programming with wpf/C#/.NET and it seems to be easy to bang out something quick. It would be nice to have a 3d IRC client. The key to making a good 3d IRC client would be the type of key bindings it has and the way you can arrange the windows inside of the 3d environment. Maybe this weekend I will have some "free" time and get this done.

Controlling Storybord Class

Today got burned by storyboard. So a tip I have is storyboard.Begin(this,true); since Storyboard class will not throw an exception if its not able to stop. This kind of seems a lot different then most other classes in .NET and WPF. If the function is not enabled or able to be used why the hell wouldn't it throw an exception! Who knows, just another hacked together thing by Microsoft.

Changes to Xaml does not force a recompile in Debug

Visual Studio 2008 is still dumb to when xaml source code needs to be recompiled. When changes are made to the xaml code and you want to run it under the debugger the IDE should recompile the code for you. Guess what, it doesn’t. This was also a problem I had with the Visual Studio 2005 Orcas Plugin (or whatever it was called).

Exception Window for Xaml Code.

The VS Orcas team thinks there pretty slick, now when you change a line of xaml and don’t recompile the IDE will tell you there is an exception. This is great when you want to check for them, but not when you are editing code! How do these guys think up this stuff. One of the first things they should of done is stopped the IDE from crashing from bad or even good xaml code. Now I face the problem that one of my usercontrols crashes the IDE when another application try's to load it. The usercontrol works fine during run time but crashes during editing time! This usercontrol is very simple, three rectangles and one line.. This might be too much for the new powerful Orcas IDE to handle! Remember just to press ESC when ever loading the designer part of Visual Studio Orcas, because it tends never to work.

Family.Show

Nice software that shows a lot of nice controls for wpf. There is source code.

Sierpinski Carpet using the DrawingVisual wpf type.

Simple example of how to use DrawingVisual in WPF to create a Sierpinski Carpet.

Sierpinski Triangle in C# with a WPF Polygon.

Simple wpf app to create a small Sierpinski Triangle... This is just a base of something I would like to create, so this is a start of using the Sierpinski Triangle. Algorithm came from the wikipedia implementation in java.

Fun way to learn WPF

Still have not read it yet, but I hope by tonight I do.