How do I set the window / screen size in xna?

Question

As of XNA 4.0 this property is now found on the GraphicsDeviceManager. Ie. this code would go in your Game's constructor.

graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);
graphics.IsFullScreen = false;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 340;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 480;

// if changing GraphicsDeviceManager properties outside 
// your game constructor also call:
// graphics.ApplyChanges();

I found out that you need to set the

GraphicDevice.PreferredBackBufferHeight = height;
GraphicDevice.PreferredBackBufferWidth = width;

When you do this in the constructor of the game class it works, but when you try do to this outside the constructor you also need to call

GraphicsDevice.ApplyChanges();

Furthermore to have fullscreen (which is not really working correctly while debugging) you can use

if (!GraphicsDevice.IsFullScreen)
   GraphicsDevice.ToggleFullScreen();