A Hot Day for writing Custom XNA Content Importers

In between gardening and feeling very warm I wrote a custom content importer for XNA 4.0 today. This is the way that you can bring in your own content into an XNA game. I’m playing around with some game ideas and I needed to get a bunch of data into my game engine so I can twiddle with it.

Turned out to be a lot easier to do than I thought it would be. Actually, the whole content setup is lovely to use in XNA. If you ever want to do this, you can find a really great start here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb447754.aspx

The stuff seems to work fine in Windows Phone too. I really know how to enjoy myself in summer…..

Comments

[Joel]

Any news on the release date as of yet, since I really want to deploy apps for it :)

[Rob]

I'm not sure about the release date, but devices are starting to trickle out. I think the phone will definitely be out by November. I must admit I'm looking forward to it as well.