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Controls, Games: 2D Graphics, Games: Graphics, User Experience

This sample showcases a complex application built on top of the integrated Silverlight/XNA Framework application model.

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

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

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

Games: 2D Graphics, Games: Audio, Games: Collision, Games: Gameplay, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures

This is a complete gesture-based game for Windows Phone.

This sample demonstrates how to develop a dynamic user interface, which can be layed out in code or in xml, or a combination of both.

This sample expands on the Bing Maps sample by using road data to allow a tank to travel to markers while driving on the roads.

This sample implements and demonstrates the usage of BackgroundMusicManager, a class that helps your Windows Phone 7 game play music and reliably respond to external events that affect music playback.

Games: 2D Graphics, Games: Gameplay, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures, Networking & Web Services

This is a complete wi-fi supported multiplayer dice game for Windows Phone.

You can make it much faster and easier for users to enter data in your applications by changing the on-screen keyboard.

This sample demonstrates a simple MVVM application that uses XAML binding to connect the Views to the Model.

This program enables the user to enter a word or phrase in one language and have it translated into another language.

Demonstrates how to play multiple sounds simultaneously in a Silverlight application for Windows Phone. Shows how to load a wave audio file into a Stream that can be played by using the SoundEffect classes.

Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Graphics

The Custom Model Rigid and Skinned Animation sample demonstrates how animations can be imported on rigid models and then played automatically. Additionally, this sample demonstrates applying an animation to rigid and skinned models.