XNA framework

This introductory session covers the Windows Phone 7 Overview, the Developer and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, options, how to become a developer, setting up your system, and an intro to creating Windows Phone applications.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers…

ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project lets you create new art & audio and edit some XML files to bring it all together into a polished game without…

This session is where the coding begins. Andy and Rob walk through building your first application with Microsoft Silverlight. It includes responding to event controls, Windows themes and styles, and customizing text input.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers…

In Part One of this series, Boyd Multerer told us all about XNA. Now, in Part Two, Frank Savage shows it all to us. Frank will talk about XNA from his perspective, deploy an XNA project to an Xbox 360, modify the application, and also give a debugging demonstration. All of this is done at…

Get ready to jump into games! In this video, Charles Cox outlines the game you’ll create, the platforms you can choose from, and the toolset you’ll use. Watch this video, then follow the tutorial at http://create.msdn.com/education/tutorial/2dgame/getting_started. We will be featuring a new…

This is the first of a two part series in which we get a look at XNA - the technology that's going to make it significantly easier for devs to code games that run on Windows and the Xbox 360. In this first part, we chat with Boyd Multerer about his role in the XNA program. It's some pretty…

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a…

On behalf of all of us at Channel 9, sorry about not having any content on Friday, but 2/3 of our city shut down because of a little bit of wind. Most of us woke up Friday morning to discover that, without heat, it's very easy for your house/apartment/condo to turn into a freezer over night in the…

Bill Reiss is building games in Silverlight, but he also likes to build games in XNA. The obvious move then is to create a library that allows you to run XNA games within Silverlight. And no code changes to the XNA games would be ideal.  That's exactly what Bill has done, and the…

This video extends session two and begins with an introduction into Databinding with a dive into the Listbinding template. Rob and Andy follow by covering Page Navigation, handling the hardware Back key, and finally creating orientation-aware pages.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training…