Xbox Live avatar with PC app

Question

I wonder if I could load Xbox Live avatar model into my XNA project?

I found some information that this is impossible in PC apps. But why? If I can use it in WP7 and Xbox apps, so why I couldn't here?

Answer 1

No, the Xbox Live Avatar API is not exposed to projects that are not running on top of the Xbox Live ecosystem.

Your options as an independent app is to use avatar URLs to get a static image of it:

• http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatarpic-s.png
• http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatarpic-l.png
• http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png