New Features in the .NET Framework Version 3.5

• .NET Compact Framework
• ASP.NET
• Add-Ins and Extensibility
• Common Language Runtime
• Cryptography
• Networking
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Forms
• LINQ
• Expression Trees
• Programming Languages

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New Features in the .NET Framework Version 4.0

.NET Compact Framework

.NET Compact Framework helps in the develop contents for a Pocket PC or a Smartphone. The .NET Compact Framework version 3.5 extends the .NET Compact Framework with many new features. The .NET Compact Framework version 3.5 expands support for distributed mobile applications by includes:

• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology
• Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
• Improvements made to Windows Forms controls
• SoundPlayer to play multiple sounds.
• Supports Compression through the System.IO.Compression namespace
• Supports the Cr

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PASSWORD FOR 7 SINS ADULT GAME

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The Making of Kehel, elf warrior by parasite		Published on: 07-23-2007 | Views: 66588
Hello! I'm Emiliano Calisti, actually I live in Rome and I'm a freelance 3D character artist. In this making of I'll explain the processes I did to create a fully rigged character for my '07 demo animation reel: Kehel, elf warrior.I hope you like it. Elves, dwarfs, undeads, mages, warriors, shamans... in one word: Fantasy. Kehel is a young female elf warrior, with only some experience in the battlefields, her dresses n' weapons are some sort of basic gear: leather, metal and iron with a little "tribal" touch. Her gear isn't a brand new one, so scratches and some dirt are all around the dresses. More agile than strong, I thought to a non-conventional weapon for a warrior with those skills. The weapon she's using is a blade/shield: she can block melee attacks and attack with the same weapon. I've used Modo for the character modeling and UVs and XSI for the shapes efinements, shaders and render. I've used Modo to model the mesh and setup the UVs, unwrapping different parts like head, torso, arms and legs. The head and the face were refined in XSI using real photographs as references from www.3d.sk,

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Creating a Destructable Asteroid (Starts Below)

1) Creating a Destructable Asteroid (Starts Below) 2) Animating the Asteroid 3) Add Missile / Asteroid Collision Detection

Shooting Objects Flash Tutorial Part 1) Create a Destructable Asteroid

Step 1.

For this tutorial, you'll need to download the image of a rock below, and then import (File > Import > Import to Stage) it into Flash.

Step 2.

We only need the rock temporarily on stage, so it doesn't matter which layer you import it on. Convert the rock into an MC (movieclip symbol) called 'asteroid'. Later on we'll be using actionscript to attach this MC from the library onto the stage. To make this possible, the MC needs to be given an 'identifier', to make Flash know that we want to do this and to also make it unique. You can give the MC an identifier by checking 'Export for Actionscript'. The identifier should automatically be named the same as the MC.

Step 3.

Go into the asteroid MC and then convert the rock image into another MC called 'rockMC'. You don't need to give it an identifer.

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Rendering an exterior at night in 5 simple steps, using vray

In this tutorial I will go through all the steps that we usually do when I’m asked to do an “exterior night-rendering”.
In order to follow it you need to know the basics of 3ds max and vray.
1) Natural light
The first step is to choose a background image of a sky.
For this tutorial I have used the image bellow:

Now put the desired image into the environment slot (3d max’s environment slot, not in vray’s).
In the vray settings, check global illumination, select lightcache for secondary bounces, irradiance map for primary (you could also use brute force, but it will take longer to render).
In the global switches tab, make sure that “default lights” is unchecked.
Last but not least go to the

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The Oxygen Orb

We're fans of Sci-Fi here at Graphisutra, so we thought we'd make a tutorial about a Sci-Fi-like oxygen orb in Photoshop. Since this is going to be a lengthy a lot of the basic steps have been omitted, so if you're new to Photoshop, you might want to checkout our other tutorials first.
This will be a bit lengthy, so we might as well start right away. Create a new document in Photoshop, 360x580px. Paint the background dark grey, or play around with a few different patterns, here's what we used:

Now, we're going to need to create the main "overlay" shape, which is going to be a holder for the whole orb. You can create this shape by combining the rectangle tool, and a

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Create the Face of a Greedy Monkey

Hi there. This tutorial will help you create a simple illustration of a monkey face. It uses the Ellipse Tool, the Pen Tool, the Rectangle Tool, the Crystallize Tool or the Gradient Tool. For the the shadow effects you’ll use some classic effects like the Inner Glow or the Gaussian Blur.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Completion Time: 45 minutes
Number of Steps: 15

This is what you’ll be creating:

Step 01

Create a 700x700px document. Select the Ellipse Tool(L) and create a squeezed shape like the one shown in image #1. Create a copy of this shape, select it then hold Shift+Alt and resize it as shown in image #2. For the moment make this shape invisible(click on the eye icon from the Layers pallete). Reselect the Ellipse Tool(L) and create another squeezed shape as shown

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Morbid Text Effects

Today we’re going to practice a few techniques, which you could find pretty useful in the future.
Now, I must say that we’ll be working with only a few layers and you’ll be amazed by how quickly we’ll obtain the effect.
Alright, now let’s get to business.

First, start with #353535 colored blank document in Photoshop. Size: 687 px width and 527 px height.
Then chose some font type and using the default white #FFFFFF color, add any text you want.
Change the name of the text layer into “Effective Layer”.

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Create a Simple LCD Monitor Icon

Hi there. In this tutorial you’ll learn to create a simple lcd monitor icon. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that might help you understand some basic effects like the clipping mask or the offset path. Also you can learn some stuff about multiple fills and strokes and about alignment.
Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate
Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes
Number of Steps: 12

This is what you’ll be creating:

Step 01

Create a 256x256px document. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and create a shape like the one shown in the image below. To increase/decrease the roundness of this shape hit up/down while you click and drag to create the shape. Fill this shape with R=24 G=23 B=26 then add a 1pt Stroke (align Stroke to outside). Name this shape “Part1″.

Step 02

Duplicate “Part1″(select it from the

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How to Create A Custom ‘Tweet This’ Button For Your Facebook Fan Page

In this tutorial we will teach you how to create your own custom Twitter ‘Tweet This’ button for your Facebook Fan page. The goal of this tutorial is to make this button look exactly like the Facebook FBML ‘Share’ button using CSS. We have provided 2 different yet simple options to accomplish this.
EXAMPLE OF THE FACEOOK FBML SHARE BUTTON:

STEP 1: Getting the Twitter Code

Simple “Tweet This” Code

Before we can create the button, you will first need the ‘Tweet This’ code. Keep in mind that this line of code is the only working ‘Tweet’ code inside of a static FBML page. This line of code will be modified and adapted in the following step’s options to produce the styled Facebook version.

1	<a title="Your Title Here" href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Your Message Here">Tweet</a>

Tweet

STEP 2: Creating the CSS ‘Tweet’ Button

Option #1 – Pulling from Facebook’s Style Sheet

The first option to create the custom ‘Tweet” Button is the easiest for making the button fall in line with Facebook’s style of the ‘Share’ button because we will be using exactly that, Facebook’s style. We have set up the code to mimic the way Facebook sets up the ‘Share’ button creating a flawless Facebook styled ‘Tweet’ button by utilizing some of their CSS classes. Copy and modify the code below, happy tweeting!

1	<a title="Your Title Here" rel="dialog" href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Your Message Here" class="uiButton uiButtonDefault uiButtonMedium">

2	<i class="mrs img sp_6isv8o sx_368f44"></i><span class="uiButtonText">Tweet</span></a>

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</a>

Tweet

Option #2 – Custom CSS with Background Image

The second option is a safer choice just in case Facebook decides to change their code (which

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HOW TO MAKE 3D Grass and Sky

This 3ds Max tutorial covers the creation of a fresh grassland pictures. Photo is used as background and 3d grass is created with a scatter object. The final touch will be the sun which will be created with lens effects. I am using 3ds Max 2010 but this should be doable with many older versions as well.

Step 1 Choosing the Background

First choose your favorite sky photo for the background. You can of course use mine if you want to. Click on the image below to download the sky with higher resolution.

Add the sky image to background in 3ds Max:

1. Open Environment settings ( Rendering > Environment… )
2. Click ‘None’ button in Common Parameters
3. Double click ‘Bitmap’ and

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Create A Cute Piggy Button

Today we’re going to design a Piggy Button completely made in Adobe’s Photoshop.Alright, first of all open a New Document in Photoshop. In my case I’ve opened one with 686 pixels width and 564 pixels height, I’ve also colored the background with # 353535.

Now the first thing we’re going to do is to create the very basic form of the Piggy’s Head.

To do that, create a new layer and name it “Piggy’s Backside Head”. Now grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tool’s Palette on the left of the Photoshop’s Interface and make a rounded selection as it’s shown on the image above.

Now before we get down on coloring the selection I suggest you to set the default colors on your Colors Tool from the Tools Palette on the left. Set a default black as a Foreground and a default white as a Background color or simply press the button D on your keyboard. If you set the colors we can move on the coloring part.

Now till we’re having the Elliptical Marquee Tool selected,

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Recording an Interview with Skype using Audacity 1.3

Recording an interview with Skype

If you are interested in doing more than solo podcasts with Audacity, you can always try creating interview podcasts. You can record these live in your office with your computer's internal microphone, or with additional microphones. However, you can't always perform an interview from the comfort of your office due to conflicting schedules and the location of your interviewee. Hence, let's learn how to record an interview using your phone and your computer.
First you'll need to install another software that allows you to make phone calls using your computer. The program we are going to use for this example is Skype. However, you could use other software that does the same thing for your Internet telephony set-up.

Download and install Skype

Skype is software that allows us to make voice calls over the Internet, particularly to other users of Skype. Some numbers (such as toll-free numbers) are free of charge, while calls to landlines and mobile phones may require a small fee.

For details on pricing for Skype credits for landline and cell calls go to: http://www.skype.com/.

Let's briefy discuss how to download and install Skype.

1. First, go to http://www.skype.com/ and download the appropriate version of the software for your computer.
2. Once the installation package has been downloaded to your computer, double-click on it to begin the installation.
   
   For Mac computers, a .DMG file is downloaded. All you need to do is uncompress that file and drag-and-drop the Skype package to the Application folder. For any Windows device, an .exe file is downloaded. Double-click on that file to begin the installation. For Linux, there are multiple distributions available.
3. If you aren't already prompted to do so, start the Skype application and follow the on-screen instructions to sign up for a new Skype account.
4. Once you have registered and signed in, the main Skype screen is displayed, which should look similar to the next screenshot:
   
   

Set up Skype for your telephone interview

For our project, we've been using the computer's internal microphone, so there shouldn't be any additional set up in either Skype or Audacity. However, to be sure you may want to check the recording input devices in Audacity to make sure that you can record both sides of the interview. To do this, use the following steps:

1. In the Audacity window, go to the main menu, and then select Audacity and then

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How to convert DRM protected WMA to MP3 for Apple iPod

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"The majority of my albums are in my Windows Media Player and I would like to transfer those albums to my iPod. Now I don't know how to. All I know is that WMA is not compatible with Apple iPod. So how do I rescue my songs? I tried to use limewire to download free music but it is a mess."
If you meet the same problem, you got the right place! The following tutorial details how to put both protected and unprotected WMA (Windows Media Audio) music files to iPod.
If the WMA files you are going to play on your iPod are unprotected, you just select and drag them into iTunes Library and they should be automatically converted to whatever iPod format you selected in iTunes preferences for importing.
If they are WMA files protected by DRM, it is not that easy. You need to use some software to strip the DRM off your WMA files and then convert the WMA files to the much more widely-supported MP3 format.
Note: As with any transcoding, the quality will go down. But if you've got a lot of protected WMA files you'd like to get on your iPod, this solution would do the trick.
In this tutorial, I'd like to show how to remove DRM from WMA files and convert the WMA files to MP3 format using TuneClone Audio Converter. Let's take a look at how it performs:
1. Settings in TuneClone
Download TuneClone and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the "Settings" button. In the pop-up dialog of "Options", you can specify the "Output Folder", "Output Filenames", "Output Format" (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.
Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the "Folder" button after the whole process.

2. Burning in Windows Media Player (WMP 11)
Create a new playlist and drag into it the WMA files you are going to

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How To Create Bluetooth Icon in Photoshop

Learn How To Create Bluetooth Icon In Photoshop! Today we will learn how to Create Bluetooth Icon in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background , then we will work on the many layers, layer masks and other useful techniques related this tutorial.

Step 1:

Create a new project with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels

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Learn To Make Milestone Icon in Photoshop

Learn How To Create Milestone Icon In Photoshop! Today we will learn how to Create Milestone Icon Vector in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background , then we will work on the many layers, layer masks and other useful techniques related this tutorial.

Step 1:

Create a new project with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels

Step 2:

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Learn How to Make Paper Notes in Photoshop

Notes In Photoshop! Today we will learn how to Create  Paper Notes in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background , then we will work on the many layers, layer masks and other useful techniques related this tutorial.

1.  Create a new project with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels

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How to Make Spot Lights in Photoshop

Learn How To Create Spot Lights In Photoshop! Today we will learn how to Create Spot Lights in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background , then we will work on the many layers, layer masks and other useful techniques related this tutorial.
1.  Create a new project with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels

2. Now Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and make shape with radius to 90 pixels like as Below

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Geometric Poster Art Tutorial

Posted on May 14, 2012 by irene.thompson80

Besides the usual pictures and text, many posters use custom made geometric poster art to create classy abstract, modern but highly memorable kinds of layouts. In this tutorial we will teach you how you can use Adobe Illustrator to create geometric lines easily, and then plug them into Adobe Photoshop to get a more edgy and creative poster effect. Do not worry as we will go step by step on this and even if you are a beginner in both applications, you should be able to follow. So let us get started.

1.     Open up adobe illustrator and select a fairly large art board. Do not worry about the specific dimensions as this will not be our main poster design. However, it is best to set something fairly large with a high resolution. Here we are using a letter sized document with a color mode of CMYK and a resolution of 300ppi.

2.     Now, with Illustrator open, draw out four blocks in different colors. Do this of course using the rectangle tool. Hold down the SHIFT key as you create the shapes to make them all perfect squares. Alternatively, you can create one square, and then just duplicate that shape three times by just copy and pasting unto the document (CTR+C then CTRL+V). Use a color palette of your choosing, but make sure all colors are distinct from one another.

3.     Then go to the Brush panel (F5) and click on “New Brush”. In the window that opens, select “New Art Brush”.

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An introduction to Lab Color mode

Lab Color Mode (LAB) is an alternative colorspace that enables you to manipulate the luminosity and colour of your images more flexibly and powerfully than when working within RGB. In this, my first LAB tutorial, I hope to achieve three things. First, I will provide a brief explanation of the theory and numbers behind LAB (and how to work with these within Photoshop). Second, I will demonstrate the advantages of LAB over RGB – i.e. its ability to dramatically alter colour – both in terms of tone and saturation – more flexibly and with less degradation to your images than when using RGB. Third, using a range of real world examples, I will show you how to use LAB to:

• Dramatically alter the contrast of an image without affecting its colour balance or saturation.
• Increase the saturation of an image with less image noise and cleaner colour separation than when working in RGB.
• Alter the tone and colour balance of your images by adjusting the ‘a’ and ‘b’ channels within LAB.
• Invert specific colours and colour ranges using the Curves tool within LAB.

This tutorial contains 6566 words, 68 illustrative images and screen grabs, and has received 40 comments.

Photoshop files included with this tutorial

Each of our tutorials is based around a series of Photoshop files, at the resolution originally posted on chromasia, and each contains all the original adjustment layers I used to create the final image. The ones that are included in this tutorial, and a brief description of how each one will be used, are listed below – the ‘before’ version on the left, the ‘after’ version on the right. Each of these files can be downloaded after you subscribe.

How to get from this …	to this
			Image 1 In this example I will show you how to use LAB to dramatically increase i) the contrast of an image (using the Lightness channel), and ii) its saturation (by manipulating the ‘a’ and ‘b’ channels).
			Image 2 In this example I show you how to alter the ‘a’ and ‘b’ channels within LAB colour mode to add a unique tone to your images.
			Image 3 In this example I will show you how to use the ‘a’ and ‘b’ Curves to i) partially desaturate an image, and ii) alter its colour balance.
			Image 4 In this example I will show you how to manipulate the ‘a’ and ‘b’ Curves to invert a specific colour range within an image.

What our subscribers have said about this tutorial

"This is a very good tutorial. When compared to Dan Margulis' work on LAB, which is complex and lacks examples, this tutorial stands out on it's own due to it's assisting photoshop users in expanding their creative wings." Jason Hope		"I find this tutorial, and anything related to LAB to be very important. I too have the Dan Margulis book and several online tutorials on LAB, but this was by far the easiest to understand, and the most applicable to photographers. Thanx!"

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