Earlier this week we published a new website on http://www.rambukgames.com – and we are actually pretty happy with it.

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After a long wait the final tools are here, yiihaa!
So what are you waiting for - go get them now and build some great apps/games.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/09/16/windows-phone-developer-tools-are-final.aspx

- Enjoy!

Yesterday I were working on a ASP.NET project and needed to add a new Web User Control. I right clicked the project and went to Add New Item. I looked for the Web User Control, but couldn’t find it. I looked again, I asked a co-working, I search for “web” and “user control” and nothing were found.

I then started googling for the problem and found a simple post that told me exactly how to fix this.

Close all your instances of Visual Studio.
Open Visual Studio Command Prompt.

Type in the following and hit Enter.
devenv /installvstemplates
Wait for this to complete.
When it’s done, open VS2010 again and you should now have all your control templates again.

Happy coding!

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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Due to some busy weeks at work the next few weeks I need to stop my “2 week” blog posts, which normally gives a little update about how the game are doing. As I know I will get very busy in the coming weeks at my job, I know I wouldn’t have time to code on Little Longhorn, which means I wouldn’t have anything to write about :)

Stay tuned as we can hopefully show some of the graphics for the game when we get back, as the graphic guys are doing a great job currently. So let’s see what Mikkel Laumann and Thomas Jørgensen comes up with.

Another 14 days have gone and we are making progress. Maybe not as fast as we would like, but still - things are moving forward.

Read this post to get up to date with the development of the XNA/Silverlight game Little Longhorn.

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