Frustrated - how to get started?

[bschau]

Actually, I googled a bit and found this thread:

3.2 on Windows Phone 8 just shows black screen

Yes, that could be a way to do it, but it is very ugly. Also, it nukes your performance because you’re basically drawing everything twice. The DrawingSurface should work (although also lowering performance)… There’s a problem with graphics device at these lines: // Create the Direct3D 11 API device object and a corresponding context. using (var defaultDevice = new SharpDX.Direct3D11.Device(SharpDX.Direct3D.DriverType.Hardware, creationFlags, featureLevels)) _device =…

The solutions presented in that thread by NogginBox and MiShu works in Visual Studio 2012 + MonoGame 3.2 as well.

Seems to be a bug in MonoGame v3.2.

/brian