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John French and Michael GetzWhat Is XNA? A Framework for Game Programming Provided by Microsoft™ A Managed, CLR (Common LanguageRuntime) Framework Integrates in to Visual Studio VS2005 (version 2.0) VS2008 (version 3.0)Why XNA? Single Codebase, Multiple Platforms Windows™ Xbox 360™ Zune™(version 3.0) Provides a Managed Abstraction of theDirectX™ API DirectX 9.0c (version 2.0) DirectX 10 (version 3.0)What Does XNA Provide? Ease of Development No need to learn a complicated andconfusing API (i.e. DirectX or OpenGL) Managed, safe code Integration with Visual Studio hastensdevelopmentCan it Measure Up? Allows the use of HSHL(High LevelShader
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