Aaron Stebner's WebLog

Since we released XNA Game Studio 3.0, I've heard of a few problems from customers via my blog and the Creators Club forums related to deployment of Windows game projects that include custom conten...

I have run into a few reports of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 installation failures recently that have exhibited the same set of symptoms. I wanted to describe this issue in more detail so that folks...

A few days ago, I wrote a blog post describing how to create an MSI-based installer for a Windows game created with XNA Game Studio 3.0. In that post, I described how to create custom actions in th...

Yesterday, the publishing process was completed for the online version of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 documentation. You can access this documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb200104.aspx...

I previously wrote an introductory post describing Windows game deployment features that are a part of XNA Game Studio 3.0. That post focuses mostly on ClickOnce publishing and the Visual Studio bo...

Earlier this week, we released updated versions of the existing XNA Game Studio starter kits on the Creators Club web site that will install and work with XNA Game Studio 3.0. To go along with that...

By default, when you create a new Windows game project in XNA Game Studio 3.0, it will target the .NET Framework 3.5. This means that the project will be configured to include references to assemb...

Question: I have an application that requires the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2. I would like to author a condition in my MSI-based installer to check for SP2 or higher so that the application will contin...

To go along with the recent release of the final version of XNA Game Studio 3.0, we have posted a set of updated starter kits that will work with Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C# 2008 Express Editio...

If you are using ClickOnce to deploy a Windows game created with XNA Game Studio 3.0, you might run into an issue that causes the game to not run correctly after being deployed to a user's computer...