Time for action – creating the Mars Runner solution

To create the Mars Runner solution, perform the following steps:

1. 1. Visit the GSM sample page of the App Hub website at http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/game_state_management and download GSMSample_4_0_WIN_XBOX.zip, and extract the contents of the file to a temporary location.

2. 2. Select all of the files and folders from the archive and copy them to the Windows clipboard.

3. 3. In your Visual Studio 2010 Projects folder (by default, the Visual Studio 2010\Projects folder inside your Documents folder) create a new folder for the Mars Runner project, called Mars Runner.

4. 4. Paste the files from the clipboard into this new location.

5. 5. Still in Windows Explorer, select the GameStateManagementSample (Windows).sln file and rename it to Mars Runner.sln.

6. 6. Double-click on the Mars Runner.sln file to open the solution in Visual Studio.

7. 7. In the Solution Explorer pane, right-click on the GameStateManagementSample (Windows) project...