GettingStarted
The Education library from XNA Game Studios, valuable for MonoGame Developers for advanced samples.
The project contains all the XNA samples from the XNA Creators Club site, however, they are still currently in XNA Game format, meaning by default they can only be opened on machines running Visual Studio 2010 with the XNA Game Studio development MSI's installed
The plan is to upgrade / migrate each sample to source in a MonoGame project. Along with gathering all the necessary XNA documentation to support them.
Help is at hand for more modern visual studio versions by using the awesome MXA Game Studio visual studio addon.
in the project you will find downloads for:
These effectively install XNA game studio with a modified project template definition that works with modern visual studio. As well as installing all the necessary dependencies and required components for XNA projects to work.
Additionally, the MXA Studio provided a "fixed" version of the XNA Game Studio installer for reference.
You can still build and run the projects on Windows, however, deploying to Xbox and Phone does not work anymore. But you can still open those projects successfully.
Over time the archive will be made MonoGame ready (maybe even some other XNA based frameworks as well, who knows). So be patient or even get involved.
For prosperity, the archive also retains the original XNA installers for those that wish to take a trip down memory lane:
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0 JPN documentation
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0 Redistributable
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 JPN documentation
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Redistributable
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 Redistributable
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 JPN
- Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 Redistributable JPN