Content
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How content reaches a running game: ContentManager resolution, the XNB container and its type readers, CNB and CNJ, the build-time Content Pipeline and how hostile or malformed content is handled.
Pages in this group
- ContentManager resolution, caching and failure rules — Which file ContentManager::Load<T> actually reads, what RootDirectory does and does not confine, what the cache keeps, and which exception each tier throws at this snapshot.
- The XNB container and the ContentReader object graph — Byte-level and session-level rules for reading .xnb files in CNA: header, compression, the type-reader table, one-based object indices, shared resources, limits and custom-reader rules.
- XNB type readers: wire contracts and validation — What each built-in XNB type reader reads, validates and refuses at this snapshot, from primitives and textures to SpriteFont, Model, effects and audio, with the evidence behind each.
- CNJ documents: envelope, sourceFile and sidecar rules — The rules a .cnj document must satisfy in CNA: envelope validation, which reader accepts which type, how sourceFile and sidecar paths resolve, which parser reads which field, and what CNJ does not bound.
- Content input boundaries and hostile-input behaviour — Where CNA enforces size, count, nesting and path limits across XNB, CNB, CNJ and the build importer, how the loaders are fuzzed, which exceptions hostile files produce, and which gaps remain.