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Remove the combo boxes, the split panel and delete each one. Once it is selected you can hit the Delete button on the keyboard to remove it. Make the form itself a lot smaller. Compile the project and double click on the error to bring us into the MainForm.

This keeps the window from being resized. This will create colorDialog1. We added a public property Color. We are using the XnaColor type. We simply return the BackgroundColor of our colorControl when Get is called. And for Set we, we set the background color of the control as well as Invalidate our control so it will be redrawn. We could have hooked into the Idle event and called Invalidate continually, but there is no need for this control. The original example does this with the SpinningTriangleControl.

Reading the WinFormsGraphicsDevice. If the user clicks OK, we get the selected color from the dialog box and set our color property to the newly selected color.

Our color property then sets the BackgroundColor property of the ColorControl. Note: This control does not let us change the Alpha value of the color. We have to add a reference to the Microsoft. Making sure we are on the. NET tab we scroll down and select the assembly and add it to our references. The assembly attribute DebuggerVisualizer tells VisualStudio this is the entry point for the visualizer.

It tells it what type of data it is visualizing as well as the description. The visualizer class itself inherits from the DialogDebuggerVisualizer abstract class. We override the Show method to actually display our form with the data being investigated by the debugger. We look at the objectProvider object passed in and cast it to our Color type.

We set the Color property on the MainForm to the value we are debugging. If all we wanted to do was display the color we would be done.

However, it would be nice to actually change the color on the fly while debugging. This is why we added the Color Dialogbox. We first check to see if the object we are viewing is replaceable. However, if it is a variable holding a value then it will be replaceable and we replace the object by calling ReplaceObject on the objectProvider object passing in our new object form.

Color in this case. Since we have Content assets we also want to copy the Content folder and any assets to the Visualizers folder as well. It can be tedious to copy the assemblies and content assets after every compile.

We can create a Post Build Event command line to copy it for us. Click on the Edit Post-build button and paste the appropriate variation of the following command and hit OK:. Now when we run a regular XNA project and we want to debug the color we simply set the breakpoint and when we hover over the color variable we want to debug we click the Magnifying Glass icon which will bring up our newly created form.

We simply modified the example to be a Class Library and added the actual Visualizer code. To debug a debugger visualizer a static test method can be created and then a console app can be created to call the static method.

This can be a great way to test the visualizer. Instead of creating a console app with all of the XNA assemblies referenced, I debugged the visualizer by attaching to another Visual Studio instance.

A dialog will come up. Select Visual Studio instance you want to debug. Now when we set a break point in the main XNA project and hover over a Color variable and hit the magnifying glass it will kick off the Visualizer Debugger and if we had a breakpoint we could step though the code. Pretty cool! For more reading on Visualizers look in the following here. Download the code from this tutorial here. It is official! The name change will be reflected on xbox.

The prices options for the games are being changed. To me, it was really difficult for a Creator to compete against expansion packs, and XBLA titles anyway. The new price points will be 80, and On the Creators Club Online site itself there is a new shiny thing called Reputation. The idea is great and hopefully it will inspire Creators to review and test more games.

More information about Reputation can be found here. So if you push out an update to your game, the gamer will be asked if they want to download the most updated version of the game. Very cool! Also, now Creators get a maximum of 50 tokens for their games. This will allow the Creator to give media outlets an easy way to review their game. There are also updates for Sweden and Singapore.

XNA Game Studio 3. It is called 'Platformer' and it creates a project for all three platforms Windows, Xbox and the Zune.

It is a great way to dig in and see some of the ways to use one code base to run a game on multiple platforms. Happy Coding! I'm excited that this is here. Right on the heals of the Zune 3. XNA GS 3. With the CTP that was released in the spring, the Zune device had to reboot anytime a game was closed.

Fortunately, they have made it so closing a game now doesn't require the device to reset itself. I'm very happy about this, but I really wasn't expecting it.

I am sure it wasn't easy to make sure that no game was hogging up resources after it was closed. It seems the two games that were installed with the Zune 3.

You can write code for the Xbox , but you can't deploy to it in the beta. We can compile our code for the Xbox and that is helpful, but we can't deploy. XNA Game Studio 4.

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