Can I create games using XNA if I have Visual Studio 2010 installed?

Question

Pretty direct question. Thanks.

Answer 1

To be a pedant, yes you can: just not inside VS 2010. You can install the 2008 Express version side-by-side and use this until they update XNA for 2010.

Answer 2

Basically: XNA Game Studios 3.0 and 3.1 come with Visual Studio 2008. (Note: anywhere I say "Visual Studio", this also applies to Visual C # Express.)

XNA Game Studio 4.0 (currently in beta) comes with Visual Studio 2010. (Note: XNA GS 4.0 is included with Windows Phone development tools).

Both Visual Studio and XNA Game Studio (and XNA runtime, for that matter) can be installed side by side with older / newer versions of the same.

XNA Game Studio (which basically means the content pipeline, clicking on the Xbox, project wizard, etc.) will only integrate with the corresponding version of Visual Studio.

Of course, you can reference any version of the XNA assembly from any version of Visual Studio. But without a content pipeline, this can be a bit restrictive.

Answer 3

XNA GS 3.0 will not work inside VS 2010. There is no .net 4.0 version yet

Answer 4

Not. Visual Studio 2010 does not currently support XNA. But you have the option to install XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP.

But I think this is for Windows Phone 7.

Answer 5

Not yet. Will be supported in the future.