Novaleaf Technical Diary, moving to xna4

moving to xna4

Now that the Xna4 Beta is out, our team decided to take the plunge.

A few things to be aware of

Xna4 is VS2010 only.
but xna4+vs2010 can live side-by-side xna3.1+vs2008
Xna4CTP uninstall is a PoS (broken)
use the XNA Game Studio cleanup tool if you run into problems uninstalling any version of XNA. (you will)
Resharper 4.5 does not work on VS2010
upgrade to 5.0!
Resharper 5.0 doesnt really work on VS2008
a lot of key commands are broken :(
XNA4 contains breaking changes.
especially in rendering. hope you like refactoring.

Now is an ideal time to upgrade:

we are rewriting our rendering system, so best to do this as part of our shift to xna4, especially looking at a “fixed function fallback” system.

We already did some tests to make sure our code isnt a nightmare to port, so good times.

-JasonS