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@Karios:

Not entirely true. Windows Phone 8 SDK ships with XNA 4.0 as a supported project type (includes templates too). That's certainly not an indication of support beyond this release, but it at least allows for backwards compatibility (for now).

That said, yes, XNA is dead for the future. Shawn Hargreaves is on the Windows Phone team now and others from the XNA team have moved on or quit Microsoft entirely (like Nick Gravelyn). Such a good set of APIs gone for good is sad to see.

I highly suggest following the MonoGame project and any other future frameworks that use SharpDX.

I got the downloads to work in Firefox 16.0.2. It's not immediate as I had to click and wait. I thought nothing was happening but eventually it worked.

Is the code available somewhere?

Slide link is missing, but I found them here: http://video.ch9.ms/sessions/build/2012/3-123.pptx

Good talk, lots of insight into the design decisions.

@aL_: You can already access WinRT libraries from Desktop. see: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToCallWinRTAPIsInWindows8FromCDesktopApplicationsWinRTDiagram.aspx

This sessions was absolutely awesome.

Speaker talks too fast at some points and the pacing back and forth was distracting.

I didn't think this was a very good presentation for these reasons:

• The speaker seemed very nervous, stuttered a lot, and made body noises into the mic a lot (coughing, sniffing, drinking).
• The information is presented in a strange, unintuitive order.
• The speaker is giving out false information about FreshPaint (it uses XAML for many parts of the interface components).

This talk was awesome Tarek. You're very well spoken and make things understandable.

@bdhc73a: There are multiple sessions during this Build event that explain exactly how to code share between W8 and WP8 for store purposes.