Oi!moobaa wrote:Exactlyteamonkey wrote:Ah, cool. So it's Java without the annoying bits then?Absolute_Zero wrote:I think it rather depends on what you are already familiar with... this is a servicable general-purpose intro.
http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/cIndex.html
They're easy compared to proving it to the wifePaulCunningham wrote:Looks like I may have to get a 360 through my company - I'm sure I'd be able to justify it to the tax man
Ooof. .Net is much nicer than the Windows API but it's still fucking horrible. Crikey. What a pile of crap to wade through.moobaa wrote:Exactlyteamonkey wrote:Ah, cool. So it's Java without the annoying bits then?Absolute_Zero wrote:I think it rather depends on what you are already familiar with... this is a servicable general-purpose intro.
http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/cIndex.html
That's what I thought of AWT and Swingteamonkey wrote:Ooof. .Net is much nicer than the Windows API but it's still fucking horrible. Crikey. What a pile of crap to wade through.moobaa wrote:Exactlyteamonkey wrote:Ah, cool. So it's Java without the annoying bits then?Absolute_Zero wrote:I think it rather depends on what you are already familiar with... this is a servicable general-purpose intro.
http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/cIndex.html
Oh, I'm just struggling with datasets. I'm trying to parse a CSV file and store the data in some sort of structure, not too heavy, no relationships, some very basic querying involved. I figured that a DataSet would be best, under the circumstances, and there's a designer page for you to quickly set up a schema, so I thought actually using it must be dead easy? But there's a whole load of hassle that goes around it, things you need to set up, objects you need to initialise, links you need to assign and it's taken me ages wandering though unhelpful MSDN pages to sort it all out.random wrote:Can you give an example teamonkey?
I don't think I'll be using it quite in the spirit of how it was intended.PaulCunningham wrote:But you ain't going to be using any of this for games so stop faffing around and get some triangle on the screen
Yay!You won’t need to enumerate graphic adapters and display modes. You won’t have to create a Direct3D 9 device and manage it when the window is resized or the game is minimized. The XNA Framework takes care of all those things for you.
Yay!One big change from MDX is that we’ve decided to remove support for the fixed-function pipeline in favor of an all shader-driven programmable pipeline.
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Direct3D 10 does not offer support for fixed function. Neither does the Xbox 360.
Yay!Sound authors use the XACT tool to create “packages†of sound effects and configure things like volume, looping, channel mixing (including 5.1), etc. The developer then takes the package, loads it, and can easily play sounds by name, not having to worry about initializing buffers, streaming data in, or other management.
Yay!One thing to note is that our math libraries are right-handed by default.
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I say “by default†because there is nothing that requires a right-handed system. So if you absolutely need to be left-handed (or something else) you can do so, you’ll just need to do some of the calculations yourself.
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public class SampleGame : Game
{
private GraphicsComponent graphics;
public SampleGame()
{
this.graphics = new GraphicsComponent();
this.GameComponents.Add(graphics);
}
protected override void Update()
{
}
protected override void Draw()
{
this.graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.Blue);
this.graphics.GraphicsDevice.Present();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (SampleGame game = new SampleGame())
{
game.Run();
}
}
}
