Re: A few questions!

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Z is being polite, in my opinion c# is the only option. It will benefit you
greatly not only in that xna needs it, but nearly all examples and tutorials
for mdx 1.1 are in c# anyway (the good ones anyhow). And as Z said, it isnt
that hard, if your just about to start learning this is the right ime to
learn the c# way before you clog your mind with vb syntax and only come to
the conclusion that you will need c# anyhow but at that stage you wil need
to learn the new syntax of c# over vb.net

"Poldie" <Poldie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to learn VB.net, and I'd like to play with DirectX. I
downloaded the August 2006 SDK but some of the example files don't work
(something has expired). I've read that there's something called MDX
and XNA which didn't exist last time I looked at DirectX (to my
knowledge, anyway). Apparantly MDX 2.0 has gone away (perhaps that's
what the 'expired' messages were about), and I have to use XNA. But
XNA doesn't support VB.net! Shall I stick with MDX 1.1? Do I have to
even use that - can't I just use DirectX as one would from VB6 or C++?

Thanks in advance.



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