XNA Framework

This session covers how to get your phone application to persist data so that you can avoid inappropriate tombstoning. It covers topics such as loading and storing data, application settings and saving data in settings, serialization and threads all supported again with demos and scripts.The…

This session targets developers interested in marketing their games and applications. Rob and Andy cover the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, registering as a developer, how you get paid for your applications, packaging your applications for the market and publishing them to the marketplace. They…

This session covers server-initiated communications, enabling background scenarios, preserving battery life and the user experience, as well as learning how to prevent polling for updates. Beginning with Start Tiles 101, you’ll work through types of notification, notification data flow, cloud…

This session goes through the Windows Phone execution model in terms of Launchers and Choosers. Learn how to effectively managing tombstoning with Launchers and Choosers. We cover types of Launchers and Choosers as well as programming them.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all…

There are literally only a small handful of people in the world who can create a game from scratch for the 6502 based Atari 7800 game platform. Robert Decrescenzo is one such person and has created quite a few games for the 7800 all hand coded in 6502 assembler and many of which would…

A walkthrough getting an XNA game to run on Windows 8 – no long theory but concrete examples. Get insights on:      How to implement the settings charm How to implement the sharing charm How to deal with file reading and writing, threads, and any other topics which vary…

Listen in as Rob Cameron chats with Andre Vrignaud, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about the exciting announcements around the commonalities between XNA and mobile development.Click here to download the Windows Phone 7 ToolkitAbout AndreOzymandias is the Xbox Live gamertag of…

With the recent announcements about the developer environment for Windows Phone we have the opportunity to talk with the product team about how Microsoft XNA fits into the picture. Michael Klucher has been a champion of the XNA framework and how it can be used to build creative solutions.MSDN…