First off if this is the wrong section then I apologize, I failed to see a section relevant to what I want to ask. I'm trying to teach myself to code. I have some experience with VB6 but that's about it. There are two apps I want to develop. One is just a boring .exe that displays information shown on Neighbourhood like this ---> The other app will be very similar except it will be in the form of a rainmeter skin showing current details of the Xbox. I'm a complete novice in this field and unsurprisingly there are virtually no snippets I can borrow to get me started. I have found Freehood360 but I can't understand half the code in there when I open it up. Does anyone have any ideas or pointers as to how I can extract the information directly from neighbourhood?
If you read the xdk document there's some API that has some very simple calls to pull info from whatever xbox's you have in your xbox neighborhood. I can't remember off the top of my head where it is, but I've used it to write a tool in the past.
I'm already coded something to tells me all the basic information of a XDK. It shows the name, the title of the game being played, the IP, the type of console it is. It's not that hard, as the XDK SDK dll file basically tells you what you want. Add the DLL and add it to the code. Then you'll want to make a connection the the default kit on Neighbourhood. Once you manage to get it connected, it is as simple as adding the name of the console to a text box like so: It really isn't that hard.
Thank you. I having loads of trouble getting xDevkit.dll to play ball. It's loaded as a reference to the project and it's declared at the start but it doesn't seem to recognise that in the rest of the project. I've had some luck with Godly's XRPC which works with no issue, but I'd rather avoid using two plugins (xbdm.xex & XRPC.xex) to do something this simple. I don't suppose anyone wants to teamviewer me so I can figure out where I've messed up?
