Xbox Friends Watch
Vista Sidebar Gadget
A Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget which allows you to track when your friends are online and what they've been playing.
Releases
1.2 - A small release that has been updated to work if the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 runtime has been installed.
1.1 - A small release but most importantly I've added an version check when the gadget loads. If a new version is available the gadget will provide a link to this page. There have also been a number of performance and code improvements resulting in less memory usage and more stability.
1.0 - The initial release was made as a proof of concept demo for a presentation. The original post is on my blog and a demo screencast is available on Channel 9.
Gamercard
More than just a static image, this embeddable gamercard has status information and a real-live Xbox blade UI to show game detail.
Releases
1.0 - The initial release of the Gamercard. Visit the script builder page to create your own gamercard.
Resources
Xbox Friends Watch is a series of components experimenting with Silverlight and the Xbox Gamertag Data Service. The goal of the experiments is to provide usable components for Xbox fans and hopefully provide good examples of user experience and Silverlight developmnent techniques.
To follow the Xbox Friends Watch series:
- Subscribe to my XBF feed
- Follow XBF on Twitter
- Follow XBF on Facebook