I have installed XNA Game Studio 3.1, but I can't see the Game Template in Visual Studio 2010 on Windows server 2008.
There is no driver for graphics and XNA 4.0 won't install, could it be related?
How do I solve my problem?
XNA Game Studio 3.1 works with Visual C# Express 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
XNA Game Studio 4.0 works with Visual C# Express 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.
There is no way around this. I explain this in more detail in this answer.
If you want to use XNA 3.1, you will need to install Visual Studio 2008 (or C# Express 2008). All of these things install side-by-side - you can have both 2008 and 2010 installed at the same time.
did yiu install vs first?
In situation ssuch as thi sits often best to start uninstalling all the xna components restart and try again.
are you sure you restarted vs after installing xna?
I have not had problems with xna (but then i am not running server 2008 and i have graphics drivers).
I dont see why a lack of drivers would stop the template from being visible though.
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I'm trying to download XNA game Studio, but at the moment I try to install it it says this:
Note: The Hyperlink sends me to a microsoft site to download VS2013 Express edition.
I'm on Windows 8.1 x64 with a full-component installation of Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate edition.
XNA Game Studio has not been updated in many years. It requires VS 2010 C# Express or VS 2010 Pro+. There are some hacks on the Internet about how people have gotten it to work with VS 2012 and VS 2013, but it's only officially supported for VS 2010.
For some reason Visual Studio is showing me this weird, ugly skeleton design view when I try building Mango apps instead of the regular fully detailed view I used to get with the old 7.0 apps.
Any idea what setting I need to change to revert back to the old view? I've spent forever searching for the right option but can't find it anywhere.
Here's what my design view currently looks like:
Thanks,
Zain
I had the same problems few weeks ago. Normally an uninstallation would not really help. I guess you also have installed the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. So to solve your problem, uninstall all of your Visual Studio and Windows Phone Related Products, normally these are:
Visual Studio 2010 (or Express)
Visual Sudio 2010 SP1
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh
After uninstallation install all products in the following order:
1) Visual Studio 2010 (or Express)
2) Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh
and after (1) and (2) install and apply the Visual Studio 2010 - Service Pack 1.
Thre problem is, that if you install the SP1 before the Game Studio, there are some missing links and files which are not patched and this leads to the missfunctionality of the Windows Phone Designer.
I hope, i was able to help you :)
I have Visual Studio 2008 installed on a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server. I am thinking of upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 and wanted to know if this would be an in-place upgrade, or do I have to completely uninstalled Visual Studio 2008 then install 2010? What about all my solutions, do I have to upgrade them to 2010 as well?
You can have both installed, and use them seperatly.
And only upgrade the projects you want.
To add to EKS there are some instances where you have to have side by side installation. Unmanaged C++/CLI code projects upgraded to VS2010 are forced to use .NET 4.0. So if you require to C+/CLI with .NET 3.5 or lower then you have to keep VS2008 around.
This is an issue that bit me and is really annoying.
Here is a Blog that describes the work around you have to make in order to use .NEt 3.5 etc and C+/CLI in VS2010
Is there any way to use XNA 3.1 with Visual C# Express 2010?
No. You can potentially reference and use some assemblies, but to get the full experience including the content pipeline, you'll need XNA Game Studio. The current release only supports Visual Studio 2008.
However, you can use XNA Game Studio 4 CTP with Visual C# 2010 Express. It is available here (as part of the Windows Phone toolset).
Pretty straight forward question. Thank you.
To be a pedant, yes you can: just not inside of VS 2010. You can install a 2008 Express version side-by-side and use that, until they update XNA for 2010.
Basically: XNA Game Studios 3.0 and 3.1 go with Visual Studio 2008. (Note: anywhere I say "Visual Studio" it also applies to Visual C# Express.)
XNA Game Studio 4.0 (currently in beta) goes with Visual Studio 2010. (Note: XNA GS 4.0 is part of Windows Phone Developer Tools).
Both Visual Studio and XNA Game Studio (and the XNA runtimes, for that matter) can be installed side-by-side with older/newer versions of the same.
XNA Game Studio (which basically means the content pipeline, push to Xbox, project wizards, etc) will only integrate with the associated version of Visual Studio.
Of course you can reference any version of the XNA assemblies from any version of Visual Studio. But without the content pipeline it can be a bit limiting.
XNA GS 3.0 won't work inside of VS 2010. There is no .net 4.0 version yet
No , Currently Visual Studio 2010 does not support XNA . But you have a option of installing XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP .
But i think it is for Windows Phone 7 .
Not yet. Will be supported in the future.