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Collection of tips from developers in the community, on marketing your app or game.

This technical article covers some of the most common questions around FAS, and how it affects development for interactive entertainment titles.

PEGI Express is the name of a newly developed version of the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) rating sytem that allows games for Windows Phone to get an age rating.

This document provides a step-by-step guide and recommended practices to ensure a Windows Phone game project made in XNA Game Studio is localizable.

This article will help developers make an informed decision when choosing between the two.

This document aims to call out a few of the changes in Windows Phone OS 7.1 and Windows Phone Developer Tools that affect game developers.

This document explains why and how to move your Windows Phone game to an architecture that integrates Silverlight with the XNA Framework.

This document provides basic guidance about developing games in Visual Basic with XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh.

This library provides an easy way for sending all three kinds of push notification messages currently supported by Microsoft Push Notification Services.

This article describes a variety of ways to reduce loading times on your Windows Phone 7 games.

Windows Phone Recipes provide you with building blocks that you can use in your own applications to accelerate your development. We created the Non-Linear Navigation Service for Windows Phone in order to give you the ability to simplify and improve how the Windows Phone back stack works in your application.

This article discusses best practices for achieving good performance on Xbox 360 for XNA Game Studio games.

Games: Data Management, Performance & Optimization

This whitepaper discusses the flow of events that occur in your application for common user scenarios, and what actions the developer should perform in each event. This paper references the Unit Converter Starter Kit, also available for downloaded from the Education Catalog.

Data and Isolated Storage, Games: 2D Graphics, Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Audio, Games: Data Management, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures, Performance & Optimization

Learn more about performance and features in Windows Phone 7 games with these talks from Microsoft's PDC '10.

This article gives tips on how to avoid the Windows Phone Watchdog, which seeks out and shuts down unresponsive applications.