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This sample demonstrates a set of extensible user interface controls that you can drop right into your Windows Phone 7 game.

Games: Artificial Intelligence, Games: Gameplay, Input, Touch & Gestures

This sample demonstrates how to translate touch input into a path that can be drawn on-screen and followed by a game object.

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

This lab is a complete 2D touch action game for Windows Phone.

Games: 3D Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures

This sample uses the accelerometer to estimate the orientation of the phone's screen relative to the user's eyes, and renders a 3D scene corrected for that viewpoint in order to create an illusion of depth.

Games: 2D Graphics, Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Graphics, User Experience

This sample demonstrates how to display the same scene in two viewports by using two separate view and projection matrices, simulating a two-player game scenario.

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

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.

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

This starter kit contains a complete Blackjack game that incorporates an easily re-usable set of card classes that you can use to build your own card game.

Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures

This sample demonstrates a 3D camera shaking and controller vibration effect.

Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Graphics

This sample demonstrates use of the DualTextured effect for detail map multitexturing of procedurally generated surfaces. It also shows multipass rendering and simple shadow rendering by using depth biasing to avoid depth buffer aliasing.

This sample shows how to use the location service on Windows Phone 7 to store and navigate back to a location.

Data and Isolated Storage, Games: Visual Assets

This sample shows how to save an image from a phone application to the phone.

Data and Isolated Storage, Games: 2D Graphics, Games: Audio, Games: Data Management, Games: Gameplay, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures, User Experience

The Memory Madness Lab is a complete 2D touch-based memory game for Windows Phone.

Data and Isolated Storage, Games: Gameplay, Games: Shaders, Input, Touch & Gestures, Sensors, User Experience

This article describes a variety of best practices to employ when preparing your Windows Phone 7 game for submission to Windows Phone Marketplace.

Data and Isolated Storage, Games: Gameplay

This article demonstrates how to handle deactivation events (tombstoning) on Windows Phone 7 by using XNA Game Studio.