Programming / Coding for Source

[Kakburk]

I think there's a possability there will be problems trying to compile your code with the 2003 version. I'm not completly sure but that's my guess. However I think there says something about it in the HL2 coding wiki and that there are fixes to download to the SDK. But try before you start searching, I might be misstaken and it's unecessary for you to search fixes which don't actually exist. ;P

[Psy]

I'm downloading the one of this page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/default.aspx

The C++ one.

[Quakis]

I think there's a possability there will be problems trying to compile your code with the 2003 version. I'm not completly sure but that's my guess. However I think there says something about it in the HL2 coding wiki and that there are fixes to download to the SDK. But try before you start searching, I might be misstaken and it's unecessary for you to search fixes which don't actually exist. ;P

I gave a few compiles before and it loaded up fine, even some simple weapon changes took affect. Let's just hope I don't run into compile problems due to version number in future!

[Zacker]

VS 2003 giving problems? Sounds unlikely to me as I still believe it's the official supported IDE for the Source SDK.

[wacko]

both 2005 and 2003 are supported now as of last October. if you load up the wrong sln file in the wrong IDE you will run into issue.

[Quakis]

Ah good to know. Haven't really done anything but read, just don't want to rush into this in my current mood but will get there eventually. Must say there has been some helpful posts in this thread though.

[Wunderboy]

Visual Studio Express edition requires the Platform SDK to be installed too before you can compile anything just FYI.

[wacko]

I think its safe to say that if your doing any programming on windows these days it would be good to have the platform sdk.

[Gorion]

I was wondering how are you doing, i am learning C++/C# at my school. while i find C# allot easier (or just more/clear tutorials on that) C++ is pretty straightforward

[Quakis]

To be fairly honest I haven't done anything but read right now (and from just reading it sounds straight forward) I'm just improving upon other skills first before spending some time on coding at the moment - It'd be better to be able to use new models if I ever get into AI / Weapon coding for example instead of using the defaults until I do. Independant modding is the number one choice for me.