The Microsoft Surface team announces XMA Game Studio 3.0 (and above) support on Surface SDK 1.0 SP1. It actually has since the release of SP1. Like myself, not all of us knew .
You should install XNA Game Studio before installing the Surface SDK. If the Surface SDK is already installed, you should install XNA Game Studio and the run the Surface SDK repair. After this software is installed, a new template “Surface Application (XNA Game Studio 3.0) is available in Visual Studio.
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I installed the XNA 3.1 package first but now the Surface SDK installer won’t continue because it can not find the XNA 2.0…