Going forward I want to make a site specific news roll, but for now these will be here…
We’re launched! Some of you hit an early bump when going through the tutorial, where it’d crash inside the new project dialog if you chose certain devices. That’s been fixed, and if you run the designer again it will auto-update (a good test!). There’s also what may be an odd issue where the auto-generated code doesn’t compile because it’s formatting the physics screen diagonal number using a comma, which in code looks like a call with two arguments to a function that only expects one. Tracking that one. Also added some clearer instructions about what dependencies you need to install – essentially, you need either Visual Studio C# Express or full VS2010, plus the XNA framework, and the Windows Phone Tools. You also need the .NET 4 framework, but I think most systems have that installed already, and that the installer will catch if you don’t have it and grab it for you.
In general though – it’s on track! Many thanks to all of you that plunged headfirst into the unknown and were kind enough to report back on problems instead of just giving up. They’re really valuable and it’s really great to see people starting to explore! Please do though use the support center, on the site – I want to keep the issues open and public so that nobody wastes their time reporting a dupe. Also if you’ve hit something that technically works but was counter-intuitive… I want to hear about those as well. Not just bugs… anything!
Finally – I realized I forgot to hook up any sort of “catch crash, prompt for what happened, send to server” code. I’ll definitely be adding that soon.