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1 hour, 0 minutes, 57 secondsWindows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 3 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2This 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… -
13 minutes, 16 secondsSilverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7Dec 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM
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Sean McKenna and Talon Ireland came down to discuss a few things they learned from building Unite in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. They go over: - Pros/cons of silverlight vs. xna for building simple games… -
45 minutes, 18 secondsScriptTD: So You Want To Build a Tower Defense Game?Jul 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM 6
As you may have heard me say before, I love Tower Defense games. In fact, I've always wanted to build one or two but the main problem is that I'm better with ideas than programming. On the other hand, TD games are all very similar—creeps go in, creeps (try to) go out. Meanwhile you try your best to… -
2 minutes, 53 secondsXNA: Game Development - The Game LoopThe Game Loop is the beating heart of your gameplay. In this video, Josh Foss and Elbert Perez dissect this critical component of game development. Watch, then code along with the tutorial at http://create.msdn.com/education/tutorial/2dgame/creating_the_player. We will be featuring a new XNA Game… -
23 minutes, 14 secondsThis Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your XboxThis week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the top developer news including: - Bing - Microsoft's new search engine, via Ars Technica - Follow up - Microsoft services like Hotmail and Messenger won't be renamed to "Bing Messenger" - Behind Bing - DiscoverBing.com has… -
1 minute, 49 secondsXNA: Game Development – Creating Player AnimationAnimating objects in your game requires setting them up right. In this video, David Thany walks you through creating a sprite strip that animates your player character. Watch, then follow along at http://create.msdn.com/education/tutorial/2dgame/animating_the_player. We will be featuring a new XNA… -
4 minutes, 3 secondsXNA: Game Development - Designing the GameWhat’s a game made of? In this video, follow Josh Foss as he maps out a 2D shooter game design from start to finish in just four minutes. Watch, then code along with the tutorial at http://create.msdn.com/education/tutorial/2dgame/design. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video… -
23 minutes, 12 secondsUpdated! Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 7 of 19): Isolated StorageThis 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… -
17 minutes, 8 secondsThis Week on C9: Live ID goes Open ID, cool Silverlight Toolkit and themes, and SecondLight videoThis Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian go through this week's news including: - BizSpark program for startup launches (0:35 - 1:53) - XNA Game Studio 3.0 RTM's, via Greg Duncan (1:53 - 3:09) - Windows Live becomes an Open ID provider (3:09 -… -
13 minutes, 13 secondsMicrosoft Research TechFest - XNA, a depth-sensing camera, an LCD projector, and some geniusThere was one booth at TechFest that was constantly jammed with people. Everybody wanted to interview Andy Wilson. I'm not quite sure what to call his work. I can think of all sorts of adjectives with which to describe it, but an actual name escapes me. I will say that I had never seen…
