I just discovered some new XNA 4.0 samples for the Windows Phone 7.

The sample is pretty easy to understand and seems to be simple to reuse on your own project. The screenshot above is from the TouchThumbsticks sample.

See all the samples here.

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I recently found out, to my surprise, that the TreeViewDragDropTarget (found in the Silverlight 4 Toolkit), doesn’t have an “EnableDragDrop=true/false” property. 
So how do you enable / disable the drag’n’drop mechanism?

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The beta tools are now available and can be downloaded from here.
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/launchcenter

Orientation and Rotation

One of the new features in the XNA 4.0 for Windows Phone 7, is the ability to rotate a game without you having to code it up your self. Looks pretty cool, haven’t tried it out yet though.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2010/07/12/orientation-and-rotation-on-windows-phone.aspx

Multitouch Behavior

Demo of multitouch on the Windows Phone 7 Beta emulator.
http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2010/07/12/multitouch-behavior-update-for-windows-phone-7-tools-beta.aspx

- Enjoy!

Microsoft have just released the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions which extent VS2010 with some features that make the use of it even better. If you haven’t already downloaded them – do it now!

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After I googled for this error for some time, without any luck, I decided t o write a quick blog post about it, just to help others which might have the error due to the same reasons as me.

Today I got this error “XAML Namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008 is not resolved.” in a Silverlight 4 project. I happened right after I added some VisualStates in Blend 4. I could remove the VisualState XAML and everything would then build again fine. As meantioned I googled the error but couldn’t find a solution.

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