RXDK for Visual Studio

Build homebrew for the original Xbox in Visual Studio 2022 / 2026 against RXDK — the open, self-contained, MSVC-free Xbox SDK. Everything you need to write, build, deploy, and debug an Xbox title, without the legacy XDK.

Features

• Project templates — Original Xbox Game, Empty, Static Lib, DXT, Controller Input, Font Scroller, Network Server, Video Player, plus multi-project samples (Cube, Music Visualizer).
• Build, deploy & debug with F5 — compiles the .xbe, deploys it to your devkit over XBDM, and attaches the native debugger. Deploy to Xbox and Remove DXT are on the project's right-click menu.
• RXDK tool window — set the devkit IP, warm-reboot, open the SDK / host-tools / docs folders, launch xbWatson and Xbox Neighborhood, and browse the docs.
• Component management — see installed-vs-available versions of the SDK, docs, host tools, and samples, and update any of them (or all) with one click.
• One-click setup — downloads the SDK, host tools, documentation, and the Zig toolchain into %ProgramData%\RXDK.
• Import classic XDK projects — bring a VS2003 .vcproj / .sln forward to RXDK.

Getting started

1. Install the extension and restart Visual Studio.
2. Open the RXDK tool window (View ▸ Other Windows ▸ RXDK) and click Install Prerequisites.
3. File ▸ New ▸ Project, filter by the Xbox tag, and pick a template.
4. Enter your devkit IP in the tool window, then press F5 to build, deploy, and debug.

Links

• Source: https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/RXDK-VS20XX
• Open SDK (RXDK-Libs): https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/RXDK-Libs
• Sample suite: https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/RXDK-Samples
• Community: Discord · Patreon · ko-fi

RXDK is a clean, from-source Xbox SDK — not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Licensed under GPLv3.