Hi,

I took some time to realize this video tutorial to help you guys understand how easy it is to create magnets for myBoard. In this first tutorial you will learn how to create a Clock magnet, just like the one you see in Windows Vista.

Hope you’ll like it

Download video tutorial.
Download clock magnet source code.

PS : Sorry for my heavy french accent, hope you’ll get the main idea though !

A poll is currently open on the main page and I’m a little surprised by two requests I see there. Someone is asking for “Source Code To Help Out!”, actually all magnets source code are available in the directory where you installed myBoard. This is the case since Pre Alpha 0.6
The other feedback is “System Tray Icons”, well there IS a tray icon in the taskbar, so I’m not really sure about what you are asking exactly

Anyway, I [...]

Ok, so obviously some of you think it’s a little bit too complicated to create magnets in C# so I’m going to show you how you can do the same thing in HTML.
You will still need Visual Studio Express though …

1 – Start Visual Studio and create a Custom Control in .NET 3.5

2 – Make sure you import myBoard.Framework.dll reference, and implemement IMagnet interface on your magnet.

3 – Make your magnet in HTML

4 – Add a WebBrowser control to your [...]

I’ve just uploaded on YouTube a new video of myBoard, check it out and let me know what you think

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What’s new ?

Pixel Shading code added to improve myBoard activation/deactivation animation. If you have a video card supporting pixel shader 2.0, this animation should run much better.
Corner activation available. You can now activate myBoard by moving your mouse to one of your screen corner.
Better exceptions handling.
Bug causing myBoard to crash when closed fixed.
Magnets source code available.
Magnets morphing animation fixed

Pixel Shading in WPF application requires installation of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta.

Download myBoard Pre Alpha 0.6

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One of my biggest concern about myBoard are performance and framerate issues, and myBoard is definetely not as fluid as I want, and this is mainly due to the fact that myBoard make extensive use of BitmapEffects for visual effects such as shadow, or glow.
These effects are software rendered, which means that the CPU is in charge of images effects calculation in addition of all myBoard business logic. Even on my Dual Core E8400 + 2Go of ram, myBoard framerate [...]

Calculator will be available in myBoard Pre Alpha 0.6, source code also.
And I will also provide source code of all other magnets with next release. I hope this will help developpers in magnets developpement !

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myBoard forum is currently hosted on a free hosting server provided by my ISP, but this server sucks, and sometimes fails to display the forum correctly (error 500 ).

So I need to move this forum to a godaddy hosting server (where yannalet.com is currently hosted), but I have no experience on moving phpBB forums, so if any of you can help me with this, i would be endlessly thankful

Edit : Forum migration is completed, new url is http://forum.yannalet.com

I’ve just updated myBoard SDK so all developpers out there can create magnets for myBoard Pre Alpha 0.5.
You can get the last version here.

Let me know if some things are not clear enough

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What’s new ?

Radio magnet added
Picture Frame magnet added + source code (thanks ChristianS )
myGuide icon updated

Bugs fix :

Black background when myBoard is activated after starting a DirectX/OpenGL application (Games / Windows Media Center)
Color bug with Post-It magnet
About window crashing myBoard on Windows XP
Magnets states not saves when myBoard wasn’t closed properly
Hotkeys not working as they should when edited in configuration window

I know, I know that’s not a lot, but please understand that I have a lot of projects going [...]