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I was wondering if anyone here knows how to find the complete path (from the drive letter onwards) of a ContentManager instance. using this I could create a string with the right number of "..\" to append to the file path when I want to load a file from anywhere else on the computer (eg. from a registry key). So basically I'm asking if there is a way. You may just want to use System.GetFolderPath with one of these locations , most likely Program Files. From there, you can navigate to your application's installation directory. You could also use .Load("\MyFolder\blah") which will load from the

Anytime I resize my XNA Window to the smallest possible resolution (0 pixels high) the program starts invoking LoadContent again which causes my app to crash (since I only want it to load content once). What can I do, is there a way I can stop the user from resizing my window too much (such as setMinimumSize in Java). Or is there another solution? Thanks, To stop the user resizing your window too much, set the MinimumSize property on the form associated with the game window. Add the following references to your project: System.Drawing System.Windows.Forms Add constants for your desired minimum

I had a look at this previous question however this doesn't seem to work for XNA 4 for a Windows Phone 7 project: XNA Framework Importers I've been trying to use: string line; using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("credits.txt")) { while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) { //reads line by line until eof //do whatever you want with the text } } ` but this is throwing a System.MethodAccessException "Attempt to access the method failed: System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(System.String)" Do I need to look at using IsolatedStorage for this instead? Edit: Please note I am trying to load a pre-prepared

I've just got my 2D sprite game running on the 360 and WP7 and it's far slower on these than the Windows counterpart. The FPS is about a frame a second, but on windows its smooth. I'm using Farseer the latest version in this. Is there anything on these two platforms that could cause such a drastic slowdown? Thanks in advance. George Clingerman Yes. There are DEFINITELY things on those two platforms that can cause significant slowdowns. The CLR on the 360 and WP7 have much slower garbage collectors than on the PC. As a result, performance on those two platforms can vary dramatically. A game

I've read Shawn Harvgreave's blog entry about automatic serialization and the MSDN article on an overview of the content pipeline, but I couldn't find a list of the types supported. Quoting MSDN: Starting with XNA Game Studio 3.1, the serialization of custom data to the .XNB format is done automatically for simple types that do not have an existing content type writer. I haven't had problems with this until I tried to use a Queue from System.Collections.Generic which I'm guessing isn't supported by the automatic serialization. So, is there a list of types supported by this? And if it isn't

Edit: Just wanted to make the question I have more clear. I pretty much am having trouble seeing how something like Matrix.CreateTransformationZ works in the context of not only matrix multiplication but more importantly what this does to the screen space/world space so I can get a clearer picture. So maybe someone could alter the code or give me a short snippet to test out where I can use this to either rotate around an axis and/or orbit around the axis. I have also changed the example. So I'm still kind of having trouble visualizing how matrices work with the xna screen space. I'll give you

I'm drawing a ground texture in a sidescrolling platformer like this: spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Deferred, null, null, null, null, null, _camera.GetViewMatrix(Parallax)); foreach (Sprite sprite in Sprites) sprite.Draw(spriteBatch); spriteBatch.End(); In Sprite.Draw() public void Draw(SpriteBatch spriteBatch) { if (Texture != null) spriteBatch.Draw(Texture, Position, new Rectangle(0, 0, Texture.Width, Texture.Height), Color.White, Rotation, Origin, Scale, SpriteEffects.None, ZIndex); } How can I get the texture to repeat in the X Direction infinitely? Any resources explaining how to do