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TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere”– Session Slides and Code

Yesterday I presented a session dedicated to games in Dev Track of TechEd Israel 2010. Thanks for all participants – it was a great honor to present for you! The session slides hosted here . The sample I wrote hosted here . Hope you enjoyed the session, will be glad for your feedback Alex

TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere” Session announcement

Next month, 28-30 November, I’m going to TechEd Israel 2010 . At the conference I have a session dedicated to games! During the session I will show how to build the real world computer game running on such various platforms as Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 and PC. A lot of fun and cool sample are “on the house” :) For additional details about the development tools and technologies track (which hosts my session) follow the  link: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/TechEd2010/Tracks/DEV.aspx   See...

Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip: How to use Bing Maps in XNA games

A few days ago, a colleague of mine pointed out to this site which shows a Bing Maps usage within XNA game. I was intrigued how to achieve it… I know that Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 could use Bing Maps control (see great usage tutorial here ), but XNA games cannot render Silverlight controls… To solve it, I decided to use a different approach for XNA – download image tiles and present them in XNA game. Let’s get started. First, in order to use Bing Maps API you need a Bing Maps...

Teaser: Multi-Screen

Something big is coming… Imagine PC, imagine phone, imagine game console… Image all of them playing same game… Imagine player with phone playing versus player on console or player on PC… Imagine player starting the game in public transport at the way home and resuming it after arriving home on the console… Imagine that everything is possible…   Just imagine… and enjoy the photo meanwhile :) Stay tuned for more to come!   Enjoy, Alex

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 available

As was announced earlier this week at TechEd 2008 in Orlando, new Beta 2 for Silverligth 2 has arrived! Here download links: Runtime only Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 (includes Silverlight SDK, Developers runtime, project templates in single chained installation) Belnd 2.5 June preview Deep Zoom Composer Beta 2 Many samples and tutorial videos here   Enjoy, Alex

Our Session Setup

As promised, here short video from our Tech-Ed 2008 session setup... I've shot this at ~6:10, while trying to make whole stuff blend together :) Second part - in Tamir 's blog. Enjoy, Alex

Tech-Ed 2008 is over

Tech-Ed 2008 Israel is over, and I'd like to thanks Microsoft for making it happen. I'd also like to thanks all, who was on my and Tamir 's "show". I hope that all attendees enjoy watching it like we enjoyed making it! Don't forget the survey ;) Also, great thanks to Tamir ! Stay tuned on videos of how we put all this session together - hope it will here in day or two.   UPDATE #1: My video already posted here UPDATE #2: Tamir's video already posted here  ...

Where am I?

If you developing games using XNA game studio, many times you need to know where your code is running - on PC or on Xbox 360 hardware... Unfortunately, there is no any out-of-the box functionality provided by XNA Framework to check platform, but here is the solution: XBox 360 the only device, which supports special 3rd mode for Pixel & Shaders version 3 on its Shader profile and this could be checked out. Here is the sample code: 1: bool isXbox = false ; 2:   3: //Lets get graphics device...

Silverlight 2 & CreateSilverlight()

Current Silverlight 2 Beta by default doesn't using silverlight.js/CreateSilverlight() functionality we used to add Silverlight in Alpha version, but Silverlight directly created on page as object: 1: < div id ="silverlightControlHost" > 2: < object data ="data:application/x-silverlight," type ="application/x-silverlight-2-b1" width ="100%" height ="100%" > 3: < param name ="source" value ="SilverlightApplication4...

TechEd '08

Come and see me presenting with Tamir Khason on TechEd '08 in Eilat :) We will speak about WPF , Silverlight and... XNA !   XNA & WPF Better Together!