Paul Scharf

Paul is a self-publishing game developer. He believes that C# will play an ever growing role in the future of his industry. Next to working on a variety of projects he writes weekly technical blog posts on C#, graphics, and game development in general.

Software Development
Paul ScharfJuly 28th, 2015
0 18
Using generics for type-safe and type-specific identifiers
After the slightly philosophical diversion of last week’s post, today I would like to present a few more technical ideas…
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Software Development
Paul ScharfJuly 25th, 2015
0 22
Foolproofing code, and incentives
After my post on accessing game objects by unique ids last week, I was asked whether it was not potentially…
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Software Development
Paul ScharfJuly 14th, 2015
0 49
Accessing game objects by unique ids
Every game keeps its game object in one or more simple collections. These are used for enumerating the objects every…
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Software Development
Paul ScharfJuly 6th, 2015
0 31
Designing a shader loading and management data structure
Last week we looked at how we can use the builder pattern to build shader programs out of individual shaders.…
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Software Development
Paul ScharfJuly 5th, 2015
0 32
Linking shader programs using the builder pattern
This post is the first in a series on design patterns in game programming. Design patterns play an important role…
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.NET
Paul ScharfJune 29th, 2015
0 326
Multi-threaded exception handling
Last week we explored the possibilities of using multi-threading to create animated – or even interactive – loading screens, and…
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.NET
Paul ScharfJune 23rd, 2015
0 86
Using multi-threading to animate and speed up loading screens
One feature that almost all games have in common is loading screens. Many small games can get away with a…
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.NET
Paul ScharfJune 17th, 2015
0 35
Scheduling cross-threaded tasks using .Net’s BlockingCollection
Concurrency has always been a complicated aspect of computer science. With modern hardware increasing not only in speed but also…
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.NET
Paul ScharfMay 28th, 2015
0 22
Serialisation – JSON in C#, using Json.NET
Last week we compared a number of different data-interchange formats and I explained why my current favourite is JSON. JSON’s…
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.NET
Paul ScharfMay 21st, 2015
0 87
Random elements, subsets and shuffling collections – LINQ style
LINQ was a major part of the release of .Net Framework 3.5, and has since been one of the most…
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https://github.com/tonysneed/Demo.VS2015.TypeScript

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	`https://github.com/tonysneed/Demo.VS2015.TypeScript`

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