Hannes DuPreez

Introduction Welcome back! With this installment we will mainly concentrate in determining whether or not three pictures form part of a winning line. We will also enable the facility to enter an amount of credits, and track them during gameplay. How Does it Work? A line is basically the row in which the matching pictures […]

Introduction Apart from Hashtables, queues and stacks are probably the most common Collection classes. With this article I will explain the ins and outs of queues and stacks. Again with the Collections? Yes. After you have seen how versatile the Collections Namespace is, you’ll never again cringe with fear when you encounter it, and you […]

Introduction There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework, as we all know. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections. What are Collections? As the name implies, it is a collection of objects. You […]

Introduction For some reason, setting file associations is still somewhat of a mystery to many a developer. Why it’s a mystery is because very few people actually know the correct way to set file associations for applications. Have you ever wondered why a program such as Microsoft Word automatically knows that it should open a […]

Introduction Welcome back! This is the last installment of this series. In this installment we will learn how to add a Hint Facility, how to change screen resolution, and how to make the game much more finalized. That means that we will make an introduction screen, and an ending screen, as well as a next […]

Introduction If you enjoyed (and I hope that you did) the previous installment in this article series, you will definitely enjoy this part! Here, we will concentrate on the gameplay. We will introduce new functionalities to our project that will enable us to have a working game. Design First, we have to add a few […]

Part 1 – The Basics Introduction Have you ever played a hidden object game? If you haven’t, it is a game where you have to find random objects hidden away on the gamescreen. These objects are carefully and smartly embedded into the screen so that it looks as if they are part of the background […]