Not dead yet!

May 25th update: turns out that not only were comments disabled while MSDN blogs were being upgraded, but the three posts I made during the upgrade got deleted, too! So I shall repost them now. Looks like I have some CSS work to make things look right again too. Sorry for the inconvenience…

Been a while since my last post, but in the immortal words of Monty Python, "don't worry, I still have plenty more Game Studio 4.0 things I want to write about..."

My post rate slowed for three reasons:

• I took time off to get married (hurrah!)

• I ran out of my backlog of already written GS4 articles (boo!)

• These days I am mostly working on HiDef graphics features for Windows and Xbox. When writing new code, as opposed to fixing bugs in existing implementations, I spend more time typing and less waiting for builds or test runs to finish. That means fewer spare cycles for multitasking on the forums or in Live Writer :-)

But before you give up on me entirely, here are some of the topics I have in the works:

• Resolution and orientation on Windows Phone
• Rendertarget formats on Windows Phone
• SurfaceFormat.HdrBlendable
• DrawInstancedPrimitives
• SetDataOptions.NoOverwrite vs. Discard
• Storage changes in XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Assembly factoring in XNA Game Studio 4.0
• DualTextureEffect
• EnvironmentMapEffect