Hi.
I now have a menu on my game but have got stuck on making my gameobject move using the thumbstick and rotate to look in the direction it is going in.
can anyone please tell me how to do this or of a link that tells me.

I'm at work so I'll make this brief...

You can get the direction you need to move by taking the x and y position of the thumbstick.
Something like Vector2 direction = GamePad.GetState().Thumbsticks.Right;

If you normalise the direction, you can then simply multiply by the object's speed (per frame) and add it to it's current position.

so Vector2 newPosition = oldPosition + direction.Normalize() * speed;

To get the facing, you can do a bit of trig:
float rotation = Math.Atan2(direction.Y, direction.X);

That will give you the rotation in radians, which you can use to create a rotation matrix (eg. Matrix.CreateRotationZ(rotation))

I hope that points you in the right direction.

when i put

player.rotation =

Math.Atan2(direction.Y, direction.X);

 

it comes up error
cannot inplicity convert type double to float. an explicit conversion exists(are you missing a cast?)
can you please assist

player.rotation = (float)Math.Atan2(direction.Y, direction.X);

Thankyou.
but when i move up i go down and the ship looks like its facing  right. does anyone know whay?
it does the same for the other directions.

yeah that would be expected. This code works in World space, not View space. If your camera angle is fixed then it is a simple matter of flipping / rotating the values.
For instance, if you press up but it goes down, then you want to use Atan2(-direction.Y, direction.X);
For the problem of facing left/right when pressing up/down, you need to add a constant rotation on to the result of the Atan2 method. This is quite simple if you remember that you are working with radians here. So a 90 degree rotation is MathHelper.PiOver2.

eg. to rotate the ship by 90 degrees and flip the vertical direction, you would use
float direction = (float)Math.Atan2(-direction.Y, direction.X) + MathHelper.PiOver2;

You will need to mess with the values a bit to get it correct, but it all depends on where your camera is placed.
Now, if you camera angle is NOT fixed, then things get a lot more tricky and it will require some further discussion.

so do you think that i should learn more before moving onto these sort of contols until more xp as i can only make games like the getting started 2D game but slightly more advanced then them (menus, moving, firing, 2 player, act.)

That is something you will have to decide. If you feel confident enough to move in to new territory then go for it, if you're feeling apprehensive then put it on hold until you feel confident enough in your ability to tackle the problem. When I was learning, the best way I found to learn new stuff was to run through some samples and mess around with the code in them so you can visually see what your changes are doing.

I think i will put this project on hold will i learn some more. thankyou for all the help tho. :D