Daniel Hanson made a Paint.NET (.pdn) texture importer for the XNA Framework Content Pipeline. Now we have direct support for Photoshop , Gimp , and Paint.NET images. /me wonders what's next...

I don't usually bother linking to things that already exist elsewhere, but I totally missed this announcement, so I figure you might have too. My apologies if this is old news! We updated several Content Pipeline samples to take advantage of the automatic...

Roll up, roll up, get 'em while they're hot...

Pop quiz – given: Stack< int > stack; what is the difference between: return stack.Count; and: return stack.Count(); Is it: No difference: both return the number of elements on the specified stack The first...

The best way to understand the performance of a program is to run it with a profiler attached , but that isn't always possible. Maybe the program isn't written yet, and you want to investigate the performance of a possible design before committing to...

A while back I was doing some performance investigation on a Zune game. It was CPU bound, and Remote Performance Monitor said garbage collection was not a significant problem, so I knew this must be a good ole " too much code taking too long to run...

I recently bought a new house, and along the way our agent recommended we get a sewer inspection. Those things are so cool! The guy arrived with a roll of tubing attached to a gizmo that looked like a prop from City of Lost Children , unwound this into...

Automatic XNB serialization works best when the same classes are available at content build time and at runtime. Pedantic correction: if you are making an Xbox game, they can't actually be the SAME classes. You must compile the code twice , once for use...