Xbox Application Development using C# and Visual Studio

Question

I have been investigating into application (not games) development on Xbox but i could not find any help or tutorial which i could use as a starting point for my project like a basic template.

I have an Xbox Live Account which i know is needed for app submission.

I have gone through alot of links like this

But it doesnt provide help on following points like :

1.Which IDE to use (does VS 2012 for Windows Phone or for Windows 8 work?)

2.is C# the language to use(i would prefer to use this)

3.Any basic starter app/template (with newest SDK, as i have seen a few samples they fail to load)

Any help would be largely appreciated

Answer 1

Visual Studios seems to be what most developers would use for xbox. As for languages if your looking to develop apps for xbox and not games, you could use C# or WPF. Hope this was a bit helpful.

Answer 2

You can't develop Apps for Xbox (360 or one) with the public SDK (XNA). Xna allows you to create video game for the indie market only.

To be able to create video game for XBLA market or apps store, you need to be a official video game editor/compagny and in partnership with Microsoft.