xbox360

I'm working on a small and simple XNA game and I'm noticing I'm spending way too much time implementing basic UI functionality like menus, (rich) text rendering including wrapping and basic UI lay-out such as alignment of elements. This is a fairly common problem, and I was wondering whether anyone knows of a library to handle these things. I know there are some good skinnable options available to windows programmers (Crazy Eddie's GUI comes to mind), but as I'm targeting the Xbox 360 I would like to find a pure managed solution. Noldorin xWinForms is easily the most complete and actively

I'm trying to make a turn-based roguelike engine thing for XNA. I'm basically porting the game over from a previous work I did using an SDL-based roguelike library called libtcod. How can I modify the basic XNA template thing to make the game not redraw the screen every frame, but, instead, when I want? The correct method for doing this is to call GraphicsDevice.Present() whenever you want to draw the back buffer onto the screen. Now the difficulty here is that the Game class automatically calls Present for you (specifically in Game.EndDraw ), which is something you don't want it to do.