Articles by Dan Colasanti (Articles: 2, Technical Blogs: 4)

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Artificial Intelligence
	Invasion Game in XNA for Windows Phone 7 1 Jul 2011 Updated: 6 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 110,331 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 6,560 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a port of Invasion (originally posted on CodeProject by Mauricio Ritter) to Windows Phone 7 (with some enhancements).
	Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8 8 Oct 2013 Updated: 5 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,273 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 3,531 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code.

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Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	Advertising Network Options for Windows Phone XNA Games [Technical Blog] 27 Jul 2011 Updated: 27 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,801 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.
	Asynchronous Image Download with Abort-on-Timeout for WP7 [Technical Blog] 21 Sep 2011 Updated: 31 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,420 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.
	Advertising Network Options for WP7 XNA Games – Revisited [Technical Blog] 4 Aug 2011 Updated: 1 Jul 2013 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,270 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Advertising Network Options for WP7 XNA Games – Revisited
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	Review of WP7 Mango Beta’s Advertising SDK [Technical Blog] 4 Aug 2011 Updated: 4 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,571 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Review of WP7 Mango Beta’s Advertising SDK

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Dan Colasanti

President ImproviSoft LLC

United States

Dan is the Founder and President of ImproviSoft LLC (mobile software) and AdStreamer, Inc. (mobile advertising) - both Microsoft BizSpark Plus Startups.

Dan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Clarkson University and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and was a 2012 Microsoft XNA/DirectX MVP.

Prior experience includes Software Engineering, Project Management, and Functional Management in the Aerospace & Defense, Medical Devices, Automotive Engineering, and e-Commerce industries.

Dan's dev-blog is The ImproviSoft Blog.