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Xbox is a video game console made by Microsoft.

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Developing apps for Xbox One?

I've heard that Xbox One application development is quite similar to Windows 8, but I haven't found much to suggest why, or what differences there are. Is there any documentation about creating Xbox One applications (not games, apps.. like Netflix,…
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The XBox 360 TCP stack does not respond to TCP Zero Window Probes with a 0-byte payload

I'm experimenting with an Android app that streams Music via UPnP to an XBox. The streaming works for the most part, but quite frequently, after a minute or two, the streaming stalls, especially when there is other activity on the network. This…
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Simulate XBox Controller Input with Python

I want my python programm to simulate an XBox controller input. Both analog thumb sticks and the on/off buttons if possible. I found topics about simulating Keyboard input with ctypes in python, for example here: Python simulate keydown Is it…
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Controller support for Xbox one in Windows UWP

I am wondering how I am supposed to handle input for UWP apps targeting Xbox One. I have noticed DirectInput, but I see two issues with it for my use cases: From MSDN, it only seems to support Xbox 360 controllers XInput is an API that allows…
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How to get the device platform on Windows 10

Since one release binary will run on pc, xbox and phones, I need a way to fetch the device type on runtime. It is doable by checking with the ApiInformation for present types, methods etc., but I believe there should be a more reliable way.
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QuickStart on Xbox 360 application development

Everywhere I found the buzz about Xbox 360 games. However I want to know how I can develop normal application for xbox 360. Mostly silverlight based. Also I am not sure what this homebrew stuff is all about? What language I need to use for Xbox 360…
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Reverse engineering the Xbox One Smartglass app's API authorization header

Since Microsoft decided to put the profile pages for Xbox Live users behind a login wall for some stupid reason I have been forced to find other means to determine if a Xbox Live user is online or not. To do this I have used mitmproxy to figure out…
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XBox live achievements API

I'm relatively new to XBox development and wanted to know the best place to start looking to learn more about what API are exposed by XBox Live. Specifically around player and game achievements, player details, other games they're playing - that…
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Link an account with Xbox Live Gamertag?

How would i go about linking someones gamer-tag? Basically, i am wanting to make sure a user actually owns that account. MLG Game battles does the same thing, where you click a link, then you are redirected to Microsoft's Xbox Live website. Once i…
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How to implement sign in with xbox with javascript?

I used microsoft graph api to implement signin but with that I am not getting xbox details of the user. How to get xbox details. I want the xbox id of the user to pass to the endpoint in xboxapi.com to get xbox details of the user. Response I am…
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How to detect gamepad triggers both pushed with USB HID API?

I use RawInput + Windows USB HID API to receive WM_INPUT message when a gamepad button is pressed and retrieve gamepad state. There's a problem: two triggers work on same axis which means you can't figure out if two triggers are pressed at the same…
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Is it possible to "rumble" a Xbox 360 controller with Python?

Is it possible to "rumble" my wireless Xbox 360 controller for PC with Python? I've only found solution for reading input but I cant find information about vibration/rumble. EDIT: Following the code provided by @AdamRosenfield I get the following…
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Can the Xbox Live Creators Program grant access to the XBL RESTful API for web development?

I'm developing a website that requires access to public profile and game information from Xbox Live, for that I need authorization to use the Xbox Live RESTful API…
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Where to save high scores in an XNA game?

I'm making a simple 2 player game in XNA and started looking into saving the player's high scores. I want the game to work on the XBox 360 as well as Windows, so I have to use the framework to save the data. It seems that you save data to a…
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XNA: Scaling down Texture 2D antialias?

I'm working on a project in XNA, and I'm using some rather large textures, which I'm loading into the game as Texture2D objects, and drawing on the screen much smaller than they are loaded in. The reason for this is that I need to draw them at…
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