Seems it’s impossible to in a cross platform manner know what your rendering surface size is actually going to be.

In XNA, in Initialize() you can query the ViewPort dimensions and they will be correct.

Seems that in many other targets you don’t really know this for sure. Most likely it will return 800×480 till you get to LoadContent().

On some devices what you ask for is not what you get.

Some consistency would be nice.

In the meantime I’ve had to give up on semantics and move all my Initialize() code that needs to know the Viewport size (like all of it) out into LoadContent().

Also, beware with the current Xamarin Studio on the Mac. It does not copy and paste properly if you have Windows CRLF ending in your files. It will mess up the end of your paste..