~360 Homebrew: XNA Game Studio Express

PaulCunningham · Post by **PaulCunningham** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:32 am 0

Why isn't managed C++ an option i wonder? Or VB or any .Net language come to think of it as that is one of the features of the Framework. Seems strange to limit it to C#

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:06 am 0

pogo wrote:News to me - has anyone seen a survey that backs this up ? Our tools are 90% C/C++, as our games are in C/C++. It's what we all know and our tools and games often share code. (The other 10% is low level asm/shader code or high level scripting such as Python).

We use quite a bit of C# in the studio I think.

arron · Post by **arron** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:58 am 0

Although I'm not one for MS dev environments, I'm quite keen on giving this a go. It would be good to have an excuse to learn C# for something useful..

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:10 am 0

arron wrote:Although I'm not one for MS dev environments, I'm quite keen on giving this a go. It would be good to have an excuse to learn C# for something useful..

I was thinking that

Shouldn't be too hard either, as I'm a Java person.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:16 am 0

Just thought I would throw this in from the XNA blog...

Because this is a blog and not the actual press announcement, I can talk about the big obvious hole in the plan. When we ship XNA Game Studio Express this fall, you will be able to share your final product with anyone on your windows machine that you want, but there is no support for sharing Xbox binaries other than sending your source around. We fully intend to fix this in the future, and if I have anything to do about it, it will be sooner than later. The more people that sign up for the subscription and start showing cool innovative content that everyone wants, the easier it will be to get this done.

Soooo those put off about the whole state of the 'sharing on xbox', hang tight I guess

chub · Post by **chub** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:47 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:That's kind of irritating - went to register on the XNA notification doohicky and after it all, got a "Page not found" when I clicked "[Register]".

Anyone else got that? (I was using FireFox 1.5.0.6).

Oh well, bunged 'em an email with the error code - we'll see what happens...

I had the exact same thing. However after I got the 'page not found' I went back to the sign-up start page which actually showed the page it was trying to find in the first place

So I just finished off the rest of the registration without any problems.

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:50 pm 0

So what do I need to get for my PC to use this then?

Absolute_Zero · Post by **Absolute_Zero** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:42 pm 0

Ely wrote:So what do I need to get for my PC to use this then?

If it's like the other Express packages... nothing beyond a Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account. Just sign-up Here

The Bag · Post by **The Bag** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:19 pm 0

PaulCunningham wrote:Why isn't managed C++ an option i wonder? Or VB or any .Net language come to think of it as that is one of the features of the Framework. Seems strange to limit it to C#

not sure about the express version, but the licensed version can use anything that'll compile down to CLR.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:33 pm 0

Hmmm. Anyone know any good tutorials for C#?

Absolute_Zero · Post by **Absolute_Zero** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:40 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:Hmmm. Anyone know any good tutorials for C#?

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

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:08 pm 0

Absolute_Zero wrote:
Ely wrote:So what do I need to get for my PC to use this then?
If it's like the other Express packages... nothing beyond a Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account. Just sign-up Here

Ta, but I was meaning what software packages I'd need to be able to actually write code.

Post by **Muttley** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:16 pm 0

Ely wrote:
Absolute_Zero wrote:
Ely wrote:So what do I need to get for my PC to use this then?
If it's like the other Express packages... nothing beyond a Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account. Just sign-up Here
Ta, but I was meaning what software packages I'd need to be able to actually write code.

He means you should be able to download everything you need direct from Microsoft, but you'll need to register for it.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:31 pm 0

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

Ah, cool. So it's Java without the annoying bits then?

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:55 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
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
Ah, cool. So it's Java without the annoying bits then?

Exactly