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I would like to make a 360 game and was just wondering if I could re-use some existing C code I have or whether I need to re-write everything in C#. Any help is appreciated.

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Yes and no.

Officially, the only thing you can use on the 360 with XNA is C#. You can't ship any unmanaged DLLs with an app on xbox live, and if you want to write your game in C, you need a dev kit and an impossible-to-get contract with Redmond.

That said, anything you can compile into CIL that will run on the compact framework will be okay. If you can convince your code to compile as managed c++, you should be able to get it to work.

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Additionally, you can do just about anything you want from a Windows XNA Game. The requirement of no unmanaged code is XBOX (and WP7) only. – Nate May 25 '11 at 18:50
@Nate yep, absolutely correct. – David Lively May 28 '11 at 20:00
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its better to use C#. bacause that using C# will not cause unknow problems.

however, Yes, it can cll C functions.

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-1 because you didn't really elaborate on any of your points. "unknow [sic] problems": what kind? "can cll [sic]": how? – Tetrad♦ Apr 24 '11 at 16:39

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