So far with SilverXNA we have been dealing will a full page approach to rendering our Silverlight page in XNA, it’s quick and simple but there is another way. The Silverlight renderer (UIElementRenderer) is specifically targeted at
Now one thing that wasn’t in the original game (unless you count the player / enemy animations which to face it are part of the gam anyway) was any kind of animation to the UI experience, namely in
Must admit I had a bit of a Star Wars relapse while thinking about what to call this article, hay I’m only human, supposedly. So at this point in the SilverXNA series we now have our
In yet another area that will be completely foreign to XNA devs (unless you’ have delved into Silverlight or Web programming) is the concept that in reality you should never have code updating the screen directly. In
Continuing on From Part 1 and Part 2 of the SilverXNA series, we continue to start doing some actual Silverlight rendering of our own. Now if you compare the image above to the screenshots from the previous parts
In Part 1 I went over some of the things you’ll need to do to get your current XNA project ready for use in the Silverlight XNA integration which I’ve dubbed as SilverXNA for this
For some time now I’ve been pondering over the new XNA to Silverlight integration since it was announced for Windows Phone Mango, I even wrote a short post over how to get started here. (He he, seeing
As was the story not long ago, devs would look at the image above and see a Silverlight app, it looks like an image overlaid by a text control with another texture of a persons head, nothing too
