Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

Erik Skoglund — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:32:44 GMT

Awesome post, thank you very much!

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

jasons-novaleaf — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:52:08 GMT

thanks for that link shawn. That sounds like an acceptable solution to me (Especially since I don't have to write the code myself!)

I have forgotten to subscribe to the xna samples rss feed, so was not aware of this (or I'm sure other awesome stuff)

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:21:58 GMT

> xna 3.1 let you enumerate what files are in the title container. But no API seems to let you do this in 4.0.

Right. See this sample: create.msdn.com/.../contentmanifestextensions

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

jason — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:05:53 GMT

I havent ported my xna 3.1 storage system to 4.0 yet, but this reminds me of my confusion/concern: How do you discover what files are available in the Title Container?

xna 3.1 let you enumerate what files are in the title container. But no API seems to let you do this in 4.0.

the only workaround I see is to construct a index file that informs what files are available. Is this the case?

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

Joel Bennett — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:47:23 GMT

Now there's an odd thought - would it be possible to pass built .xnb files across the web to sort of load-on-demand for a game? The .xnb files would still be compiled/built at build time, but could be stored on a central server somewhere.

There are most certainly better ways of doing such a thing, but would it be possible to do such a thing (in theory)?

re: Reading files in XNA Game Studio 4.0

Steve 'Sly' Williams — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:37:34 GMT

"options that have limited usefulness in practice, because you cannot compile to .xnb format at runtime, so the only way to get .xnb data into isolated storage would be to copy over one that was created at build time, and I can't think of any reason that would ever be useful, but there you go"

On Windows Phone, you could download extra levels or game data to extend the game and save it in isolated storage. To satisfy the App Cert Requirements you would not be allowed to charge for these extras, but it is a useful reason.