XNA is quite possibly one of the most robust game programming frameworks out there. You can do nearly anything with it, and one of the reasons it is so flexible is its "Content Pipeline". But sometimes it can be a bit tricky to use this feature, requiring us to do bit more work. But in the end, it helps to use the Content Pipeline. Luckily today we are going over how to use it to load in some XML.

Earlier this year saw the release of .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, and C# 4.0. With this release, like so many others, came a flurry of new books. Today's review will be covering one such book - "Essential C# 4.0" by Mark Michaelis.

Every once and a while I run across a new C# keyword that I've never used before. Today it's checked and unchecked. Basically, these keywords control whether or not an exception will be thrown when an operation causes a number to overflow.

Recently I was working on a project and the UI required minor tweaks depending on whether or not Aero was enabled. Fortunately, I came across an MSDN forum topic with the solution, so I thought I'd share.

This snippet will show you how to add overloaded functions to your WCF service contracts.

Today we've release version 1.2 of our Notepad++ Subversion Plugin. We received a comment asking for revert and since it was a pretty straight-forward thing to add, it has been added.

This talk will cover some basic tools that you can start using now that can save you a lot of time on your work. Some of these tools include version control, build systems, static analysis, debuggers, profilers and IDEs.

Most conversations about interviews involve how to land the job. What happens when you land the job and you don't love it. The job interview isn't just a one-way experience. Find out how to make best use of job interviews for yourself in the video below.

There ain't nothing that can keep us down. The latest episode of the podcast is jammed packed with awesome stuff. We discuss all the latest Google happenings including their recent purchase of AdMob, Google Go, Analytics updates, Chrome OS, and more. Among other topics we also talked about PDC, Silverlight 4, Adobe AIR 2, CrunchPad and Cyber Clean keyboard cleaning goo.

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SOTC Episode 6 - Im on a Boat.mp3

After a few-month hiatus, the team is back for another installment of Switch On The Code. In this episode Charlie Key and Brandon Cannaday discuss college senior CS projects, Visual Studio 2010 beta 2, Twitter Lists, Adobe CS5, Google Wave, Windows 7, Lua, and iPhone development tools.

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SOTC Episode 5 - What Does Marsellus Wallace Look Like.mp3