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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

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh Available

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP refresh available! This build is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM! For those who are in Silverlight development – from now it is possible to develop Silverlight 4 applications with Silverlight 4 RTW and Windows Phone 7 applications with this CTP refresh.   The download location here . Make sure you are reading what’s new document here and Release Notes (from download location). Additional information about changes could be found 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...

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!