DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 5

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 5: "Games Programming on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight and XNA" with Rob Miles

"Getting Started with XNA on Windows Phone. We talk about what makes the Windows Phone such a good platform for XNA development and how you create XNA games for it. We take a look at how games can manage the orientation of a phone and give you some tips on getting the best performance. Then we move on to take a look at the accelerometer input and how to make games that use this."

Here are the links to the individual sessions:

• Session 0: "Windows Phone 7: A Different Kind of Phone" with Andrej Radinger
• Session 1: "Understanding the Windows Phone 7 Development Tools and Getting Started" with Maarten Struys
• Session 2: "Silverlight App Development on Windows Phone 7" with Andy Wigley
• Session 3: "Integrating with the device capabilities (location, camera, contacts, phone)" with Andy Wigley
• Session 4: "Raising the dead: Programming Silverlight Apps that survive Tombstoning" with Andy Wigley
• Session 5: "Games Programming on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight and XNA" with Rob Miles
• Session 6: "How to sell Apps through Marketplace" with Rob Miles
• Session 7: "Creating an application for WP7 with Cortexica’s ‘visual search’ API" with Tricky Bassett
• Session 8: "Creating WP7 Apps that work offline" with Andrej Radinger

The event was sponsored by