Hi
Does SlimDX has support playing of file formats other than wav? E.G mp3? If
I were to develop games, it would be a major space saver. Thanks for the
tips.
Cheers
Dickson
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:17 PM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] learning c#
Hi Dickson,
Two very good books you might want to look at is Learning C# and
Programming C# both published by O'reilly and associates. These books can
be found on Bookshare or you can pay to read them online at
http://safari.oreilly.com
which is the most accessible and comprehensive programming site I know of.
As far as learning to write Windows forms applications in C# that is
really the entire point of using a language like Visual C#. It provides a
programmer with a quick and easy method to rapidly create, design, and
deploy Windows applications. What a lot of blind programmers have trouble
with is not the language, but understanding how to use the development
tools properly. Any book you pick up and read will tell you to drag and
drop a control from the toolbox. Well, technically speaking the method a
sighted person uses isn't how we would perform that same task.
For example, let us assume a programming tutorial tells us to drag and
drop a button on our form. We can't do that you say. Of course not the way
the books tell you how to do it, but there is a quick and easy
alternative.
First, make sure you are centered on the Windows form. Second, press
control+w then the letter x. This will drop you in the toolbox window.
Select button from common controls and it will be dropped on the center of
your form. Now, press f4 on the button and a properties window will
appear. Now, you can punch in the position, height, width, name, etc by
hand.When done press escape and you have just created a new button. Press
f7 on your newly created button to open the code window to write the
button clicked event code for that button. That's justone example where
knowing how to correctly use the IDE helps.
As far as what to use in your games I highly suggest using SlimDX instead
of Managed DirectX or XNA. The Managed DirectX API has been replaced by
the XNA Framework, and is scheduled to be removed from the core DirectX
SDK in the not too distant future. So Managed DirectX is something of a
dead end. The XNA Framework isn't fully accessible do to its dependancy on
XAct for audio development which also makes it a poor solution. SlimDX,
however, is an open source API that uses the combo of DirectX and XNA
components. Unlike the Microsoft XNA Framework the SlimDX team depends on
the newer XAudio2 and X3D libraries for audio out put which makes it fully
accessible, and doesn't require XAct for programming sound support. So
that is my recommendation.
HTH
On 8/18/09, Dickson Tan <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello
I've recently installed visual studio c# express 2008 and have been
playing
with it. However, I have not had much luck learning c# as most of the
books
that I've tried using is too complicated or they use the creation of
windows
forms applications to teach c# concepts (and this involves dragging and
dropping buttons, edit fields & so on which isn't ideal for me). Are
there
any good books or free online tutorials that I can use to learn c#?
Also, if
I decide to create an audio game, should I use the direct X framework or
the
XNA framework?
Cheers
Dickson
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