Extinctathon: level editor saving and loading complete

Just a post to let anybody who's reading this that I've finished the level saving and loading features and they work quite nicely. The in-game level editor (still a work in progress--it's not very fancy at all) can save all the blocks in the current level as an XML file. I can then add that file to the project, where my Content Pipeline library converts it into a binary XMB file at compile time. My XMB reader then converts said XMB file into objects in memory.

Basically, List<Block> -> XML -> XMB -> List<Block>. Apparently doing it in this way is much faster than the easier way of simply writing to and reading from plain text XML files. When you're saving thousands of blocks, you end up with a good 2 or 3 megs of XML which takes far too long to parse.

I'll post details, code, video, et cetera a little later on.

Also, I should say that writing this took a good deal of work on my part, and once again the XNA tutorials were a HUGE help. However, while in the middle of this, the XNA site was down for about a day preceeding their big relaunch, and this was the first time I just NEEDED other people's help. I ended up getting it on the forums after the relaunch, and it helped me to understand some of the things that weren't clear to me before. In other words, "Thanks, internerds!" Where would we be without you?

Source:
Program.cs, Extinct.cs, Species,cs, Block.cs, BlockReader.cs (rar)
BlockPipelineContent.cs, BlockSettingsWriter.cs (rar)