XNA UK User Group
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May 2007 - XNA UK News

  • Rare Examples Fixed

    Thanks to the Z-Man for pointing out that the Rare downloads weren't working for most of you. I've now fixed the problems and they should all be working. My apologies to those that tried and failed.
  • Rare Examples

    When Microsoft released version 1.0 of the XNA Framework they had a couple of parties, one of them here in England. If you were there then chances are you got hold of some of Rare's XNA tests that they coded up. If you weren't there then now you...
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  • How Time Flies

    Hey, all of you who are entering, or are thinking of entering, the competition - there's not long to go now. The individual art and sound categories are due in by the 12th June, less than two weeks away. We'll be providing an upload page closer...
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  • Making Games Easier

    The XNA Framework does a great job of simplifying access to DirectX (or the Xbox 360 graphics API) but it's still pretty low level and requires a bit of work to make a 'game' framework on top of. So if you are struggling a little with that...
  • Syntax Highlighting

    I've added a client-side syntax highlighting module. It's based on this module and uses this JScript highlighting code . You can make use of it, in both forum and weblog posts, by using code tags. There are currently 3 valid languages: "c#"...
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  • Web Hosting Problems

    Our apologies if you've had any trouble connecting to this web site lately. Our web hosting providers have been having some trouble with their database server. There was some downtime early this morning while they replaced hardware, so hopefully we...
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  • Competition Announced

    Ok, so we're all open and ready for the UK's XNA users to come flocking in but how do we let them know about us and entice them into joining? By hosting a competition, sponsored by Microsoft, with loads of great prizes!...
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  • First Pass on the theme

    We've made a few changes to the theme - got the logo up and played with the colours. Community Server is quite flexible, all the changes were done within the administration interface.
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