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Learning XNA 3.0
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Learning XNA 3.0

by Aaron Reed
November 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
510 pages
16h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installation

After you've installed one of the versions of Visual Studio 2008 mentioned previously, install XNA Game Studio 3.0. The setup for XNA Game Studio is fairly straightforward, but I'll walk you through it here. At the welcome screen (Figure 1-1), click Next.

Installation welcome screen

Figure 1-1. Installation welcome screen

After reading through the EULA (End User License Agreement), accept the agreement and select Next, as shown in Figure 1-2.

EULA

Figure 1-2. EULA

The next screen in the install (Figure 1-3) asks whether you want to allow Game Studio and XNA games to communicate through the firewall on your computer. It is recommended that you allow these communications. The first option is required if you want to be able to deploy XNA game projects to an Xbox 360; the second is required for network play in XNA games. Enable both firewall communications and select Next.

Firewall settings

Figure 1-3. Firewall settings

Tip

If you have other firewall software on your computer, you may need to add rules for Xbox 360 communications and the XNA Framework manually. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203892.aspx for details.

After accepting the firewall settings, XNA Game Studio Setup will copy the files to your computer and complete ...

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