In today’s development world being able to target multiple platforms from the same game codebase is a rarity. Often times the same game project needs be re-written to run on a different platform causing a lot of headache, frustration and lost time. This is where XNA Game Studio comes in. XNA Game Studio is a set of tools which Microsoft has built that makes the process of developing a game easy and fun….

After a bit of messing around, I finally discovered a slick way to produce a staggered loading effect for my list boxes. I’ve added the code for you to try it out yourself.

One day I decided that it would be interesting to have a control that used lateral touch displacement mapped to radial movement in Silverlight. Click here to get the code.

XNA for Windows Phone 7. Learn how to create write a small XNA-based app plus get access to the full source code.

Below are two applications that do exactly the same thing, but one was a whole lot easier to create. Can you guess which one?

After doing some researching on Microsoft Expression Blend I came across this tutorial site and found some very nice videos and code for a Silverlight game entitled BeeHive

This is a very simple sample which shows how to connect to an XML web service, parse the xml, and display it on the phone using controls.