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UWP side loaded xbox app cant access localhost
I have created a Xbox app using UWP and side loaded it to Xbox but I cant access the local host but can access the server though. I checked and found a solution like disable network isolation but that's for app side loaded in PC. How can I do that…

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UWP: Content dialog width stays the same
I have tried to set the width and also min height and min width but still the dialogue wont change to full screen. tried window.bounds too but teh dialog wont expand beyond a fixed width.
public sealed partial class ContentDialog1 :…

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ActionScript support for straw man skeleton in Open-NI NITE (Windows platform)
I am interested in using XBox Kinect device on Windows (eventually with
Mac) machine together with Open NI/NITE.
I need to use advanced skeleton/straw man features of NITE.
I saw this exciting Kinect/Flash video:…

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Grab Xbox live friends list from bungie
Hey all, I'm trying to grab and display a friends list from bungies friends list.aspx file:
https://www.bungie.net/Stats/LiveFriends.aspx
and display them in a desktop application.. VB or something
How would I be able to do this? Does it have…

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Open XBoX Web Browser from INgame
is it possible to open the web browser from inside a game menu and transfer account information like the emailadress of the Live accountvia the URL that is being pointed to?
Is it possible to open the browser reacting to a push…

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How to change an Xbox controller's assignment in .NET?
In Windows 10 UWP, how can an app developer change which controller number a gamepad is assigned to, purely in code?
For a reference scenario, in the Xbox 360 versions of the Rock Band games, it is possible to have controllers assigned to a specific…

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How Can I Disable Pointer Mode For Xbox One (C#, UWP)
I was wondering how I could disable pointer mode on a UWP application. I already have XYFocusKeyboardNavigation set up and everything works perfectly when I plug my xbox one controller into my PC. Whenever I debug to my console I have a pointer…

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ZipArchive in XBox UWP application
For some reason a UWP app, that works perfectly fine on Windows 10 machine when deployed to XBox can not work with a .zip archive using standard ZipArchive class. It seems to be similar to this issue: Unzipping throws an "The underlying compression…

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Xbox Live : DEP6953 Failed to launch remote debugger 0x800700d8
I get this error trying to deploy app to XBox One. Same error trying to deploy Universal App or XBox Live app in both C++ and C#. We've tried multiple PC's and multiple XBox One's. A month ago, I could deploy. Now I can't.
Targeting x64. …

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CoInitialize has not been called - (loading gamepad.h from DirectXTK without library)
I am using the DirectXTK library for the gamepad class. I compiled the library with only this class inside it and it works.
If I would only add the source files to my project, without the library, the size would be ~50KB instead of ~500KB. However,…

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Have left stick/mouse pointer scroll ScrollViewer in UWP Xbox app
In my UWP Xbox app I would like to have a page where the content is in a ScrollViewer and allow the user to scroll the content in any direction with the left stick. I would like to have the Pointer cursor enabled for this page so that it can be used…

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How to use the namespace Windows.Gaming.Input in C++ without using UWP?
I have a large C++ game project in which I want to add support for Xbox One controllers. I tried using the Windows.Gaming.Input namespace. However, it seems that this is only available for UWP projects. Is this true?
If this is the case, would it be…

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Xbox won't leave dev mode
I have an Xbox in devmode and when I open the Dev Home app and select Leave dev mode, it just goes back to the Xbox home screen. Any other ways to force it to leave dev mode?

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Trying to download MP3 generated through YouTube-to-MP3 API, but all I get is a 0 byte MP3 file
I'm using this (https://www.youtubeinmp3.com/api/) API to fetch links for downloading MP3 versions of YouTube videos. The API doesn't give me access to a .mp3 file directly, but to a generated "webpage" that starts the download immediately.
Now my…

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XBox GPU Does not appear in C++ AMP accelerator list
I'm using C++ AMP on XBox, but when I try to select the GPU as the default accelerator, it does not come up in the list. This is the code I'm using for finding the available accelerators:
std::vector accs = accelerator::get_all();
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