I got my Zune HD back in December and I was reading that Microsoft had no plans of releasing a developer kit for the Zune. I guess they finally realized that in order to compete with Apple's increasingly large library of apps, they'd have to give the public the same option as apple. Right now the process is a little screwy but I'm going to compile everything you need to get started right here.
First off you're going to need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1 and XNA Game Studio 3.1
Once you have those two things you're getting closer to completing your training grasshopper, but first you must learn to utilize your new tools.
Yes, I know you thought you could skip ahead without reading the rest of this post but the funny thing is, you probably got an error that says something to the effect of untrustworthy files? Thought so.
You need the extensions for XNA game studio before the .ccgame files will actually work.
It get's to be quite tricky if you run into files that aren't wrapped in coded pink bows like the .ccgame files, in which case what you've got to do is deploy the app like a developer would! Sounds fun right?
If your file isn't a .ccgame file it most likely will end up being a zip/rar file. If that is the case, unrar the file and boot the .sln in Visual Studio. After that all you've gotta do is right click the title in the menu on the right side of the screen and click 'deploy'
Some of the apps you can find out there are still on the glitchy side so be very careful on what you modify.
Looking for apps to go with the instructions? Zune Clan and zhdapps.com have tons of great stuff for your 3rd party developed, pleasure.
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