Xbox 360 Application Development Kit (ADK)

Does anyone around here have the Xbox 360 ADK? It is the development kit that is needed to create dashboard applications such as YouTube. If anyone has it can they PM me? I have a few questions.

 

to me youtube is made with the XNA studio.

 

Do you mean the SDK? Not sure if it's illegal to post links, but it's certainly frowned upon where it comes to newer versions. I'm sure you can find a functional, slightly older version uploaded somewhere if you Google enough.

 

Yeah I believe it's made with XNA.

 

No I mean ADK. The SDK is what they use to make actual Xbox 360 executables which are compiled in PowerPC and are ran nativly on the Xbox 360. The ADK is what they use to make .NET applications that are ran by a .NET host application. Im not worried about a download to a SDK being that I do have GDN access with the latest versions of the SDK and recoveries and I understand how important it is too keep quite about that stuff. Thank you for your concerns though

ddxcb: Youtube is NOT made with XNA Studio. It is made with the ADK which is very similar to XNA studio being that it runs .NET code using a host application. But they have a special version that is very different then XNA being that it can access a lot of API's that XNA can not. It also has Silverlight API's so that UI applications can use Silverlight for the UI which is why you see so many Silverlight references when you look at almost any Dashboard Application.

The ADK can also compile native .NET images so that they Xbox does not have to use the JIT compiler and compile it on load which makes it quite faster. They are precompiled that's why you see so many .ni.dll files to go with the actual .NET dll. The .ni stands for "Native Image".

Anyways thank you everyone for the replies I hope I cleared up some things for the people who aren't to sure on what the ADK is or how the dashboard applications are created. I still have some questions for anyone that actually has it. So my question still stands, does anyone around here actually have it so I can ask them a few questions? Thanks =)

 

Can't say I've ever seen one for sale over the past 4 years, so chances are rather slim.

I'm pretty sure you would have a better chance among your contacts than you would with the general public Ant

-Doom

 

Yea you wont probably see it for sale as its not an actual piece of hardware. Its a Software Development Kit but its for .Net applications. I think that's why earlier some people were confused since it technically is a SDK hahahaha.

But yeah I was sure to check all my contacts first but I had no luck. So that's why I'm hoping someone that I don't really know may be able to answer some questions about it =)

 

Only M$ have this sofware ?

Even in the SDK , there is nothing about it.
You probably have better chance getting a XLSP service certificate than get ADK :wink-new:

 

hey, is it anychance there might be a way to load homebrew using the ADK Software if recompiled with that? (I hope )

 

No, Microsoft don't give their private key.
All the SDK/ADK output will be unsigned xex.

You need to submit your work to Micorosft and get it approved. And only Microsoft have the "private" compiler which create signed retail xex.

 

Actually that isn't quite true, the xex you build are encrypted and signed, just not with the retail key, a special debug key is used for that purpose.
XDKs have the very same security as retail units except microsoft provides the debug xex private key to the developers.

 

Yea

 

Not entirely true, iirc you can gain hv privs on XDKs trivially.

-adrianc

 

i love how rejects from the PS3 scene come over here and think they know everything

 

Don't start flaming please.
They arleady closed the forum because of that.

 

Anthony? Really? Give the guy some credit, one of the main guys behind FSD, tons of research into a number of xbox projects and has been kicking the scene developing before jtag was even released. Flaming is not tolerated here, even more one with such stupid remarks. Reported.

 

Lol I saw my name in the post on the main page and was like, oh shit what did I do now.

 

Itchy, if thats true then is it possible that i can use it to recompile it and use any emulators or xexmenu? Thanks if so!

 

i was referring to Math and adrianc

 

@Leo : He was talking about mathieulh .

Swizzzy, ADK just let you do application with C# (basically). You can't decompile anything with this.

What are you trying to do exactly ?