Hi Phil.  Great question -- I can confirm via VS watches that the world, view, and projection matrices are set the same across either effect.  I ended up writing a custom shader instead of extending BasicEffect from stock effects to get my work done.  I have doubts now about the quality of the stock effect library.  I came across compile issues ...

Hey guys.  So I downloaded the 'stock effects' pack available in the samples area. I am planning to make a modification to the FX file to support translation of texture map coordinates.  Before doing this I wanted to make sure that I get the same behavior with my compiled BasicEffect.cs from stock effects as I do with the 'built ...

I think all of you will find this article from MJF interesting.  Per my previous assertion, XNA's support on WP8 is murky: http://www.zdnet.com/xna-support-for-windows-phone-8-is-it-there-or-isnt-it-7000001971/

Most awesome!  I sincerely hope they bring XNA+Content Pipeline to the Metro side of things on desktop/tablet.  Not having the content pipeline is quite challenging, I find!  Thanks Jim.

After watching a live blog and reading various articles (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/20/3095150/microsoft-windows-phone-8-common-platform-directx) it appears as though new XNA development may not be supported on Windows Phone 8.  Specifically, the XNA 3D graphics API appears to be supplanted by native DirectX.  Windows Phone 7.5 compiled apps ...

Hi Shawn, I am interested in knowing the version supported as well.  I am having trouble loading an FBX model and I can't seem to figure out if it is a versioning (or other) problem.  The documentation still stays 2006.11.

I used to have a 3800+ cumulative downloads for my app and now I have 2,300.  I check the downloads about twice per week -- this change happened sometime in the last seven days.  My game's high scores database has severeal thousand more unique device ids than the marketplace shows for cumulative downloads. -- The download count is a one ...

Just to confirm here, is there truly no way to initialize gamer services without sign-in occuring?

What does this have to do with the 360 though? You're not going to be able to do this on it (unless you've hacked your 360 perhaps). The question is whether having a dev kit simplifies requirements for LIVE networking with matchmaking. Specifically, does having a dev kit remove the need for each user/tester to have a CC membership and Gold ...

Zedix -- does it happen with the compiled exe outside of Visual Studio? The reason why I ask is that some MDAs (managed debugging assistants) decrease performance significantly, and this is especially noticable with math heavy culling operations.