You should go through the tutorial for 2d and 3d gaming before coding items. As for the logic behind showing the weapon. You must have the image of the item, change the location to how you want the item to work. For a sword it is easy. By easy I mean a sword has a slashing motion, refer to final fantasy 2. As for a whip, or a boomerang, this ...

// this error means that you cannot reference a portion of code that is required to run another portion of code // check your using statements at the top of the page of code that is using the namespace // double click the error screen to find error, right click on error and goto definition to find where the error's STARTING LOCATION is, // ...

From what I have noticed, or missed. I noticed that once you overwrite a saved game that it jumps into the xml streamwriter. But if you save for the first time it doesn't do that. I could be wrong, but for future development, it should allow you to enter a name to save as.

Ok I found it. Use the find command(ctrl+f)   type in SaveSessionResult   Once you find this, you should see alot of code to save to an xml file. It was a lucky guess on my part.

I just started this tutorial and haven't really looked at much, but I plan on it. I am a database developer and have been programming for almost 4 years now. 3 Years vb, 1yr C#. This sounds like a place for XML to take over.  At our company we save alot of large file segments to an xml document that has no need to connect. It is in VB ...

Thanks this information should be the first screen to pop up once you create a new XBOX game application.