vb.net & directx ?

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Hi all ( and happy new year of course)
I just would like to learn how to use directx in my VB.net project. Simple
stuff, Im only a newbie, someone can point me out a link for tutorials?

Thanks
 
Hi all ( and happy new year of course)
I just would like to learn how to use directx in my VB.net project. Simple
stuff, Im only a newbie, someone can point me out a link for tutorials?

Thanks
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Well, when starting something new, I use the wealth of information that is
available on the web. A GIS for "VB.NET DirectX" brought up quite a few
hits.
 
Poldoj,

One of the lacks from DirectX has forever been that although that it is
usable in Visual Basic all documentation is based on C++. Than worser for C#
while the part for VBNet is real worse.

AFAIK from the latest time I saw it is in the SDK is a sample set. There is
a VBNet sample in it, however it is a clear from C# with a converter
created VBNet project (which has even a C# project in it) while the C#
project is maybe even converted from a C++ project). It is for years a hit
in the face from Visual Basic people what Microsoft does in this.

(Although you can say of course as well that it seems from this that for
Microsoft C++ and C# are for games while Visual Basic is for business).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...37-0c94-4421-9ec8-156e52525d11&displaylang=en

:-)

Cor
 
You can keep track of what is going on with Managed DirectX (MDX)
on this blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tmiller/

As I understand it, it is just one person writing a managed wrapper
for DirectX. For the same reason, new samples are only available
for C# due to lack of resources. Same goes for the documentation.

MDX is still new and not quite there yet. I would expect life to be
easier a couple of years down the road.

You might want to switch to C# in order to save yourself the constant
C#->VB.Net conversion grief.

If you really insist on programming DirectX with VB.Net, do a Google
(web+groups) search for these words: vb.net mdx samples

/JB
 
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