Zune Extensions can't be installed

Question

I wanted to port my Game (XNA 4.0) from WP to Zune HD, so I downloaded the Zune Extensions installer. Unfortunately, Zune App were only supported until XNA 3.1, so I downloaded XNA Game Studio 3.1 and installed it without any errors or problems. But when I launch the Zune Extensions installer, it says that XNA 3.1 should be installed before... -.-

Why can't XNA 3.1 be detected, when 4.0 is installed too? I don't want to deinstall the newer version, I just want to develop a Zune App!

There must be a way to develop for WP and for Zune HD on the same machine, but how?

Cheers

Answer 1

Okay, the devil was in the details...

Instead of installing XNA Game Studio 3.1, I took XNA Framework Redistributable (I don't know why it was on top of Google results)...

With the actual Game Studio 3.1 everything worked fine, i.e. "A-Type" was right:

VS2010 supports XNA 4.0 (exclusively) and VS2008 supports XNA 3.0/3.1 (exclusively).

Unfortunately, to convert a 4.0 Game to 3.1 (for Zune), I will have to create a new Project in VS08 and copy the original files into it by hand.

Answer 2

From what I have heard others say is that it is possible, but rest assured it isn't easy. As of today I never got it working together. The major issue that I faced was with the new release of the development tools for WP7. If you are running older versions of a specific technology, it makes you uninstall it first.

I'm guessing if you do it backwards though you could potentially skip that check. All you would have to do is add the project templates inside of VS2010 (For that matter you could just reference the older version of XNA manually insider your project instead).

But...

I would strongly recommend against using XNA 3.1 for the following reasons:

• Zune HD is dead
• They are no longer accepting games written in 3.1 for XBOX Indie
• Most samples and code from Microsoft in App Hub is now written for 4.0