Okay so I posted this thread before but apparently people did not understand what i wanted, they thought I wanted to code for the xbox. Basically I want to be able to be able to see someone's games, achievements, friends etc. after they verify their account with me in VB.Net. How would I got about doing this? I know there is some way since I've seen applications on the iPhone for xbox live stuff.
View 9 RepliesI want to make a database of all the xbox live arcade arcade games on the xbox live marketplace, I need to parse an xml file and add the needed data from the xml node into a datagridview.Here is the xml file i need to use to grab links and other data about the game:
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Being the noob I am it took me about 6 hours to figure out how xml works and to write some code for what i need to do.
Here is what i came up with:
'for grabbing the name of the update
Public Sub updatename()
Dim xmldoc As New XmlDataDocument()
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That code works fine.Now when i add another column to the datagridview called "update size" i want to know how to add the grabbed data from another sub i made to the new column.What would the code be for adding the strings for the new sub into the seconds column? the first was, DataGridView1.Rows.Add(str)" . So what would the second be ?Also another question i have is how do i put an image in an imagecolumn by a web link, not a local picture.
Has there been any progress on getting VB to work with XBox 360 and Windows Phone 7? I hate to be rude, but it seems like we still considered to be second class citizens when it comes to non-desktop platforms.
View 4 RepliesI'm i've been looking around now for quite a while to find out how you would go about making an application that can stream media to a Xbox 360. So far i know that Vuze and PlayOn have successfully accomplished this and i have also found that you can view the streaming url in vuze to my media that is being streamed to my Xbox.
View 3 RepliesIf you are into WindowsPhone development or want to be then visit:>>Here is a link to get the Express Edition for WindowsPhone development:>>
View 1 RepliesI want to be able to make my xbox 360 controller be used as kind of a mouse how can I do this?
View 2 RepliesI was just wondering if there was a way to send the button value of a button on a controller to the controller. What I mean is, if the xbox 360 controller was a windows form, clicking the mouse on one of the buttons would be like regular button presses, and then the button.performclick for that button would also press that button. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
View 2 RepliesIm new in the forum. Yeah thats what the title said. I made a wpf form with Expression Blend 4 with a lots of animation. So i want to trigger my storyoards with xbox 360 controller buttons. I made a button checks with timer but the problem is when a pressed the button the animation is flickering because the timer is refresh every 20 millisecond. I want to play it once/press like when i click with the mouse something happen. Code:
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How do I use XInput in VB.NET so I can use the Xbox 360 Controller's Rumble feature & get all the button presses, the only examples I found show C++ but I need to access the controller in my VB.NET application...I can't even figure out how to make a reference to XInput to try & start using it or if I need to download something first(if I don't already have it installed.)By what I see a version of XInput comes with windows already in Windows Vista, but I wouldn't know what .dll to look for, where it's located or what references to add or how to use the .dll, like what api's I can use when having added it to my application to use.
View 13 RepliesOk i saw this guy on youtube that made a achievement generator for his computer. For example, he goes to notepad and write something and saves it and gets the xbox 360 achievement pop up saying "Gotta write this down" and all that. Cud this have been coded thru VB.NET or something?
View 1 RepliesI have been looking for like 3 hours trying to find a dll or anything to make a simple cards game, but everything I find is oriented to C.
In this page A FreeCell game using Cards.dll - CodeProject� they talk about just what I want, but I cannot make it work in Visual Studio 2008 using Visual Basic.net, I don�t know if that has anything to do with the Vista OS I am using.
In the page I mention the author says "There are many good articles on the net on how to use the Cards dynamic link library" and I am sure the good articles are there, but my good luck has make me looping around the same nonsense results so I end up with nothing after 3 hours search.
The game I want to make is just something for a project we must do in class, how to start making a cards game fast and simple. If someone knows about a cards dll that works fine with vbnet, that someone would be my new hero.
i'm just wondering if someone can help me make a game in visual basic 2008? can i get some exact code on how to make it.
View 6 Repliesthe thing is that i am creating a little launcher shell that will start on a lan-party computer full with games.all the things i am doing with it is for my own use only and will not be used for harmfull stuff. in the other topic i got the intention that they thought i was a cracker of hacker or something.im am just creating a launcher app that launches my games without the use of explorer.exe to be loaded with windows.i have done several things to try to load a game when i press a button but they always crash. when i start the games normally there is no problem.first i thought it needed the use of explorer.exe but when i tested my app with explorer.exe running i got the same result. so i think its my app that is causing the problem.
i have used this:
Process.Start("C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe")
and this:
Dim startInfo As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
Dim pStart As New System.Diagnostics.Process
startInfo = New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Related Designs\ANNO 1404\Anno4.exe")
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as for the people who replied in the other topic. the register files you have seen in my code was for activating the GameShell.exe to run as shell instead of the explorer.exe for the current user and for all users and to restore it to explorer.exe.
i have a question regarding how to developed a multiplayer games using VB. i am a student and beginner on VB world.i managed to create a simple Sudoku game using VB knowledge from the internet and some books.I am fan of Sudoku games published in newspaper everyday.but now i really interested on how to develop the multi-player version using the same coding. is it possible?
i tried to write a script on developed tic-tac-toe for multi-player based from a book using VB6 for an example but got many errors. how to develop a simple multiplayer for Sudoku? i'm using VB 2008 Express Edition.
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View 1 RepliesNow my question is, is it possible to use Hotkeys and ScreenCapture in a Fullscreen game?If so, how?What im acutaly trying to do is a program to take a screenshot ingame (for some reason, this game doesnt have an option to take screenshots ingame.. Bad Company 2)
View 7 RepliesI am trying to make a two player game.Each player is able to move left and right, aim up and down, jump, and shoot.On some occasions when a number of keys are being pressed at once, some other keys wont register.For example, you can hold a key down to keep moving left, keep holding a key down to aim up(changing the angle), keep holding a key down to keep jumping, keep holding a key down to keep shooting. and there are TWO players at the same time:if both players are shooting, only one can aim down(press key to change angle). but it is fine if both trying to aim up ? Can the keyboard not handle too many keys at once?
View 1 RepliesThere's a game that I play, that can be modded. I create mods for it. But some people do not know how to apply the mods by themselves, and just explaining to one person takes about an hour alone.So what I'm wanting to do:Create a program that can add - remove - detect what mods are being used.We'll use'C:GameAddon' For an example target.What I'm wanting:Check Boxes that automatically check when the mod is already in the 'C:GameAddon' folder when the program starts up.and UnCheck'd if the addon isn't in there.
View 1 RepliesPut some advanced Games on Form?
View 3 RepliesHow does xFire place itself inside of games?
View 1 RepliesI am looking to write my own media library and was wondering are there any free .Net APIs out there to identify a product based on a given barcode? As a secondary point are there .Net APIs to return cover art for books, CD, games etc based on a barcode.
View 3 RepliesHow to Create Video Games in VB.Net
I realize that this is a very popular subject, especially amongst budding developers. The drive to create games may be the reason you started working with Visual Basic in the first place. After stepping through a few samples and getting the hang of working with user controls on a form, it may be very tempting to start to throw some PictureBoxes and a Timer on a Form and start to implement some game logic. Seems easy enough, right?
To some extent, this is a true statement.You could start to do this and it would be easy enough at first. But when you begin to try to calculate collision and animate or rotate your sprites, you may start to run into some difficulty. And attempts to circumvent the problems often lead to even worse issues.This can cause an endless spiral of misery which could leave you thinking VB just isnt meant to make games!
The initial problem that most people face is the desire to use a PictureBox (or any other control) as the logical Sprite container for the elements in the game. It makes sense since the control appears to provide a lot of the required functionality already and its easy to extend it with more properties as needed.
The issue though is that Windows Forms Controls are designed to be drawn statically that is, they arent meant to move around in real-time. You can of course move them at run-time, but this is normally an on-demand operation (something which occurs because the user just took an action like clicking a button or menu item). Attempting to move controls in real-time puts a heavy strain on your application and can cause poor performance quickly.[code]....
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View 2 RepliesI am writing a application where i need to know which games are installed on a system.I have 3 ways by which i think i can detect the games
1: Scan specific parts of registry and look for key names that match with a List of Publishers. The list is manually maintained.
2: Scan the hard disk for and do same as in step 1
3: run the program in background and check for programs in memory that use a large portion of memory(which games always do) and if they use Direct X ( Which all games do except for some) then its a game.
Now i have been thinking about it and first and second method seems to be in need of a updated database ie list of publishers to make out if a particular program is game.
how do i get my program to load the windows built in games? I.E at the click of a button Solitaire loads up i have tryed a couple of ways but nothing so far has come even close to working.
View 2 Repliesive wondered if you can open .SWF Games on VB and make it do a command. For Instance: Right Click > Play :
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to read a log file for a game so I can extract certant info from it and track my stats as the game is running, but I keep getting access denied error for the log file. I would also like to have the log read only after it has been changed but the event handler never fires. I'm assuming it has to do with the access error. Can someone give me an example of how to watch a text file that's in use by another program and read it after it changes. The code I have works if I open the file in notpad, change it then save it but not when the game is running. I did it once before for the same game but lost my code and there are other programs that parse the log file so I know it can be done.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying my hand at a little football simulator, along the same lines as Football Manager (except for Australian football but that's not really the point). Right now I have a code that will simulate a match in a background worker thread and then output all of the statistics and such to a text file. It's all good for simulating one game at a time but I want to do multiple games simultaneously!
This is because, like in Football Manager, I want to have multiple leagues setup so there will be lots of games that need simulating and to do them one at a time would be pretty slow. To sim the games I have a "Match Engine" module which has a metric load of variables and different procedures in it for kicking and marking the ball etc. I'm not sure how I could somehow duplicate all of these variables and procedures at runtime and run them simultaneously in different threads.
I made a program that take screenshots but it doesn't take screenshot from 3d games what is the code :( and here is my code
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my program is bigger than this too much :D but these are the important codes :D
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class Form1
Dim game1 As Boolean
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