Hi all, just a general query. I've tried to research the tools and environment used for professional 360 development but there's not much available that isn't covered by NDAs. (Please note that I'm not interested in XNA development.) Q. What is the preferred/most-common dev environment for PRO development? Is it Visual Studio 2010? O...
I've written a game engine, which i want to integrate scripting into. However, i've looked at the available choices, which seem to be the following: Xnua Jint Managed Scripting The problems with those are (respectively): Built for XNA 1 -- there's an XNA 3.1 port but it's under the Apache license which i'm not sure is compatible wi...
Is it possible to create plug ins for the Xbox 360 dashboard? I was looking to turn the 360 into the hub for the family. So you could for example turn the xbox on, and there on the dashboard see all the families calendars merged, todo lists, grocery lists, birthdays etc. I can't see anybody talking about plugins for the dashboard aroun...
I'm just wondering if this is even possible; how to do non-complicated scripting within C#. Basically, let's say I have a structure as such: Structure int a int b int c Function ParseValue(pString as String) try return interpret(pString) catch return 0 end try End F...
Lengthy title, but pretty much says it all. I have the 360 connected to the network via Ethernet cable, and am connecting to my home network via Airport. I enter the 8-digit passkey on WMC and... nothing! I try PC connection AND WMC connection on my XBox... nothing. What am I doing wrong? ...
I do not know much about compression algorithms. I am looking for a simple compression algorithm (or code snippet) which can reduce the size of a byte[,,] or byte[]. I cannot make use of System.IO.Compression. Also, the data has lots of repetition. I tried implementing the RLE algorithm (posted below for your inspection). However, it pr...
I'm currently trying to use my Xbox 360 controller in my WPF application but all the tutorials online refer to using XNA in a game environment. I was just wondering if there is an easy to get my application to detect my Xbox 360 controller and any movement/button pushes that may come from it. My current setup is visual studio 2010, .NE...
Hello, I'm trying to get my users to download "maps" from bungie.net from my website. Example map: http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=31604914 Link users need to click to download map: <a id="ctl00_mainContent_xboxDownloadButton" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$mainContent$xboxDownloadButton','...
If it is SOAP, in theory it should be very possible, but have anyone tried this in practice. Basically I need to write some Java code to get the gamertag for an authenticated windows live id. Microsoft support pages start by saying that Microsoft environment and .Net is required: https://xds.xbox.com/docs/1033/xbox360sdk/ws_requirements...
Is there a way to get a user's achievements list from Xbox without dealing with screen scraping etc.? How do sites like http://www.trueachievements.com do it? (they're definitely not screen scraping as they do not have my Live ID credentials...) I know there's the Xbox LIVE Community Developer Program (XCDP) that provides some API but t...
Im looking for a NXE dashboard style template in HTML or CSS or javascript just not flash. For those of you who dont know what NXE is, its the xbox dashboard. any information on this please respond ASAP. thanks ...
I am trying to get a list of all files in a specific xbox directory as shown below, however I get a 'System.NotSupportedException' - Additional information: The given path's format is not supported. var path = @"XE:\MyDirectory"; var files = Directory.GetFiles(path); Does anyone know a way around it? Thanks ...
I'm trying to make a turn-based roguelike engine thing for XNA. I'm basically porting the game over from a previous work I did using an SDL-based roguelike library called libtcod. How can I modify the basic XNA template thing to make the game not redraw the screen every frame, but, instead, when I want? ...