Chapter 16. Running on Other Platforms

I hope that during the course of this book you have learned a lot about programming XNA and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. There is an additional bonus from having gained all this experience: You have also learned a substantial amount of information about creating XNA games for Windows and the Xbox 360, and about creating Silverlight games and applications for the full browser-based version of Silverlight.

Both of these technologies have differences when run on Windows Phone 7 compared with the other platforms, but the fundamentals are the exactly the same. XNA games can be ported to run in Windows very easily; while Silverlight games take a little more time, they are still quite portable with some effort. ...

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