Comments on So I got this Blog thing...: Tombstoning in Phone 7 XNA games

I figured it out. I read somewhere else that the ...

2011-02-08T22:26:55.285Z

I figured it out. I read somewhere else that the List and ArrayList does not serialize properly in XNA. Well that is how I store the cards for the player and the hands, List so I just need to strip those lists down and do a good job of readding them to the players.

Thanks for the help though.

Well my problem is the card.class... I look at th...

2011-02-08T20:07:10.535Z

Well my problem is the card.class... I look at the appservice data when it writes out to it and it all looks fine.

When I reload it, all the cards default to 0,0 which in this case 2 of diamonds. So I thought I would just write the cards individually for each player than readd them to the player class upon load. That does not look like it worked, although only had a few minutes this morning before I had to leave for my real job to see if I was even close there.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

So I need to come back and revisit this post in th...

2011-02-07T18:40:51.393Z

So I need to come back and revisit this post in the future, and perhaps put together a sample project. There's a few problems with the code I've posted, but nothing too serious.

James, if it was me I would have a Player class that had a public List<Card> generic list field on it. I'd then serialise the Player class when my GameplayScreen Serialize method is called.

What you'd need to watch out for is the event order for when the screens are reloaded. LoadContent is called after Deserialize, so you'd either need to initialise your Player class in the GameplayScreen constructor, or set a flag on Deserialisation and check it in LoadContent, and not initialize the Player class if you're coming back from tombstone.

So I am new to the XNA game scene. My first game ...

2011-02-07T17:12:36.588Z

So I am new to the XNA game scene. My first game only kept track of the level you were on, mainly because I did not want people to come back into a huge array of shots being fired at them. However, I may actually change it after reading your blog.

But to my question. I am making a card game, boring, I know, but I want a spades game for my phone. Anyway, when I deserialize my classes that contain a class for card, the cards are coming back as 2 of diamonds, all of them. Do I need to do something special in my deserialize of the hand and player class that has a list of card classes contained within?

Thanks.

When I was replacing the old deserialization code ...

2010-12-19T17:10:55.003Z

When I was replacing the old deserialization code with yours I'm getting an error: "The name 'StartupMode' does not exist in the current context". I'm not sure why I'm getting this, I have the using statement for Microsoft.Phone.Shell and a reference to Microsoft.Phone.

Make sure you cover all aspects of how Tombstoning...

2010-12-01T00:28:05.705Z

Make sure you cover all aspects of how Tombstoning is supposed to be implemented. Only leave what you need to actually need to store at the last minute to tombstoning events to get arround the performance issues with XML serialisation.
Store as you go along in your game wherever you can (so long as it doesn't impact in game perf :D ).
check out the Tombstoning articles on XNA-UK.net for such info.