Have you guys noticed that Microsoft released a free version of Visual Studio called Express it's free as long as you download as you download it in the next 10 months. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ I've download the C# version, having some knowledge in Java it seemed a good choice for me, the good thing is that they are some tutorial and webcasts and how to develop games in C#. http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/default.aspx Thanks to XNA, C# code can be easily ported to Xbox360, I found VS Express could be a good starting point to learn how to code games and easier to learn than C and C++ and performance wise I heard from techie friends that C# is quite good and it works with Direct X as well. Makes you wonder if MS will release some consumer dev kit for the Xbox 360 for Xbox live Arcade. Cheers Sabre
in my experiance, c# has some issues with several of the directX9 libraries... i stick with c++ for DX3D programming.
What exactly is the difference between Express editions and the full editions?... also note, these do not work on a system without Service Pack 2 Ryan
I'm suprised that anyone on here is even running an XP box that is pre-SP2. Without it you're just asking to get hacked. There are way too many known exploits to be having an unpatched box on the net. -hl718
Heh, my company's corproate policy forbids service pack one on anything but the development machines... and the only reason they're allowed is because you can't run xna without it
I ve got the updates the long way around, without downloading the "complete" sp2 actually. I also use my computer for development related work sometimes, and I was unsure whether changing to sp2 would mess anything up, so..i left it alone. Besides, where I am there's a bad NAT firewall that blocks flees
