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Microsoft XNA Build Preview

I didn’t think to say anything about this when it was announced in the GDC2006. With Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (XNA is based on this) nearly exiting beta stage (final product was released last week) I didn’t think Microsoft would release anything interesting regarding to XNA (apart from some marketing stuff like this and this). And I was wrong… tonight I have been playing with the XBA Build Preview (I have installed it in a Virtual Machine to avoid any problems. Anyway the integration with previous installation of Visual Studio 2005 doesn’t work in this version).

XNA Build is the first tool released from the XNA Platform. I though that it was only a mere pack of tasks to msbuild. But I must say that it is a lot more. It really rocks! Basically XNA Build offers you a data compiler based on msbuild but with a great GUI based on boxes and visual dependencies so that you can visually design your data pipeline. Makefiles to build data are really going to die with tools like this.

if you have time, have a look at the presentations.