[quote user="Craig Martin"]Anyway your custom content pipeline dll's are used at build time only, they aren't deployed so it doesn't matter where they are on your machine. [/quote] Oh, wow. I'm an idiot, I didn't even realize this - I just automatically assumed that content pipeline references had to be ...

Okay, well this is frustrating me a little bit. I have a GUI component that is loaded and processed in the content pipeline. I have a custom importer dll file that I've added as a reference to in the content pipeline's references so it can import the component. That's fine, but I need the .dll file to be relative to the project's ...

I'm currently in the process of creating a game in XNA (for Windows), and one of the things I wanted to do with it is to be able to play external audio files, instead of creating a sound bank and using the built-in XNA audio features. This seems to work fine, but my main issue is that during debugging, when the audio file is loaded, it throws ...

Oh, you're absolutely correct. I haven't deployed games to other systems yet so I was just a bit paranoid about why it was opening the source upon an error occurring. Upon reading what your advice, I went to retest this and I noticed that it's calling the actual source files. Without the source, it can't generate anything. My ...

I'm interested in starting on a game for Windows, but one thing I noticed is that the standalone .exe has a problem with errors. When an error occurs, a debugger appears (for me) that asks to open Visual Studio. If VS is launched, the entire source code of the file that contains the error is displayed. Granted, this shouldn't be a huge ...