Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

dxmutmisc.vb?

doug — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:07:43 GMT

dxmutmisc.cs is a c# file and there isn't a dxmutmisc.vb in C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (February 2005)\Samples\Managed\Common.

so how are you supposed to make this game in visual basic?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

quinn cox — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:05:48 GMT

hey thanks for this tutorial derek, it is really specific and even thought it gets technical, it is slow enough for me to learn. I can't wait to read the next one.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

quinn cox — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:05:48 GMT

hey thanks for this tutorial derek, it is really specific and even thought it gets technical, it is slow enough for me to learn. I can't wait to read the next one.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Sean — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:05:29 GMT

When I tried to start the program after adding the timer, it gave me 133 error messages saying it couldn't find parts of the timer

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Korrupt420 — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:17:51 GMT

I have searched the internet up and down for starting a game from scratch and finalay I hit gold, This first section has been a huge help, Thx for putting your time into this! Cant wait to start the next section!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

david — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:44:04 GMT

[dxmutmisc.cs is a c# file and there isn't a dxmutmisc.vb]

Because of the CLR with Visual C# and VB in the .NET Framework, (I believe that's what it is.) the C# file will work under the VB Code. I've done it before.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Justin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:58:29 GMT

Just wondering, does this tutorial still work with C# VBE and XNA in April 2007? I'm not sure if it's due to an IDE update or what, but something basic is breaking in the examples provided.

The one I'm having difficulty with right now is using a constructor: one doesn't already exist. Creating one generates an error that there is already a member of that type. The code to be inserted into the constructor doesn't work either.

Another issue is "PaintEventArgs" is an undefined type.

My guess is that the default state of a WindowsApplication project has changed.

Being a newb and all this stuff is completely confounding me.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Joe — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:15:39 GMT

I had some problems with compiling after including the dxmutmisc.cs file. This helps:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb318701.aspx

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

joe — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:06:25 GMT

I am using Visual Basic.net and this is very hard for me to follow because of the references to all of the C# files and code.

Also when I add the dxmutmisc.cs file and type in "Microsoft." Intelesense does not give me "Samples" I am using the newest SDK and I am not sure if that matters.

This seems to be the only decent VB.net DirectX 9 tutorial so I hope someone knows the fix to this.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Kirk — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:07 GMT

Quote; "dxmutmisc.cs is a c# file and there isn't a dxmutmisc.vb in C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (February 2005)\Samples\Managed\Common.

so how are you supposed to make this game in visual basic?"

You should still be able to reference the methods of a C# class because of the whole .NET thing.

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Wolf — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:04:28 GMT

The namespace code: protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e){ }

could not be found, how do i fix this?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Edvard — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:51:52 GMT

As Joe said, I dont believe this works with vb.net. It may be possible, im no pro, but it doesnt work with the instructions you've given. :)

Great guide though!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Jimmy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:27:32 GMT

I am new to this program, so I started with the BattleTank tutorial. I have tried to build the BattleTank project using C#, but every time I attempt to build it, it gives me an error reading: The type or namespace name 'device' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Any help would be appreciated.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Alex — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:44:38 GMT

Um... is there a post of what the finished form ought to look like at the end of this lesson? That'd be a fantastic help.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Bob — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:52:50 GMT

thank you for this it has helped me

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

pankaj — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:52:33 GMT

impossible means form me

I M Possible.

i want to do somthing

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

bart — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:11:05 GMT

first nice tutorial

i'm using vb.net but i can't do Microsoft.Samples

and i did everything you said for VB

can anyone help me please.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Derek (Yup, same name as you) — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:47:34 GMT

I am using DirextX SDK 10, and When I tried to add the timer, the intelsence isn't giving me Samples as part of the Microsoft namespace. I am using VB. Can you be more detailed in how to get that working?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Shem — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:52:34 GMT

[Selecting Add | New Folder. Name the new folder: DirectXSupport. This is where we are going to add the various support classes as we make use of them throughout this project. ]

I got totally lost at this point. Where is the Add option within Visual Basic Express Edition which allows me to add a new folder. I can't find it. Can someone help me follow what he's talking about?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

noodles — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:07:16 GMT

Hardly coding for fun.

Almost half of the instructions refer solely to C sharp and therefore confuse an intermediate Visual Basic user - towards whom this article is apparently aimed. Either add the VB counterparts to this article, or remove Visual Basic from the software category.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

sukit — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:08:22 GMT

if you are a begginer trying to learn, this gets very incoherant past part 1 and if you already know even a moderate amount of game development this is a complete waste of time.

perhaps if the author started over from scratch he might get something worthwhile next time.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Mr. Science — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:32:49 GMT

I keep getting an error that the "Sample" name space does not exist in the "Microsoft" name space. Is there an additional reference that must be added or is it just not in the March '07 DirectX SDK?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Foxman13 — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:38:14 GMT

If anyone is having compilation problems, you need to do 2 things to fix them:

1 - Add references to the Microsoft.DirectX and Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D components.

2 - Add all the files in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK (February 2005)\Samples\Managed\Common" to your project.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Jonathan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:15:54 GMT

This is a worthless tutorial for VB programmers. You can NOT compile C# code in a VB project, plain and simple. The CLR and .NET Framework are one thing, but that comes into play AFTER a file has been compiled, and so you cannot compile a .CS file in a VB project. This lack of basic understanding of how .NET works by the author is curious. Why include the VB code at all, knowing it asbolutely will not work? Well, the workaround is to add a C# library project to the solution and then link to that project. However, for a "beginner's" tutorial this seems hardly a good way to go about it.

Quite simply, there is no reason why you would need QueryPerformanceCounter for a simple game anyways. Just use a regular 1-millisecond timer and ignore the C# file.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

ShimonYK — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:44:23 GMT

For VB, ignore the part about including the dxmutmisc.cs. Get the VB code from chapter IV. That has the timer converted in Vb format, but it is renamed to HiResTimer instead of FrameworkTimer.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

programmer — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:19:14 GMT

In VB.NET you need to use Imports to reference another class; it still works, even if it's in C#

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Faizan — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:45:43 GMT

I am quiet confused , i can't actually find this place ,

"At the top of the class in the using directives region add the following line of code"

And also This place ,

"At the end of the class above the last two braces add the following line of code."

It would be very helpful if you could show me a screenshot of where it is...

Thanks Regards,

Faizan

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Blazze — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:58:44 GMT

Thanks for this guide, by the way what do you mean by " using directives region".

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

meka — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:45:33 GMT

"At the top of the class in the using directives region add the following line of code: "

what do u mean by this i dont know were exactly it is

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

netzash — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:37:44 GMT

[When I tried to start the program after adding the timer, it gave me 133 error messages saying it couldn't find parts of the timer]

Me too, but I think it's because we didn't add the directx library for the linker, or something like this, I guess the next step will cover that.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Alistair — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:07:54 GMT

Just an idea could you have some srceen shots and smaple bits of code for a bit more help.

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

gmduncanidaho — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:57:49 GMT

I believe the latest version of DirectX SDK does not contain dxmutmisc.cs file. Any other suggestions?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Trennto — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:29:47 GMT

I dont know where to put the "Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit;" thing. I

get the error: "A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or methods" when I put it in GameEngine.cs at the top or under the "using..." part.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

mcarr1973 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:14:46 GMT

Hello,

It would be awesome if these lessons were in Video

because I have a lot of trouble learning reading through all the jargin and not knowing where exactly to place things.

Video tutorial are an awesome avenue for me because I retain more stuff in a shorter period of time and it seems more hands on and the learning curve is so much faster. because lets face it theres a lot to learn.

I just wish I could find more video tutorials? reading the and sifting through all this stuff its gonna take years.

Im sure the other newbs would agree with me "PLEASE MSDN GIVE US MORE VIDEO TUTORAILS"

they really help!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

FatAlbert — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:42:29 GMT

I had the VB / C# problem discussed here. Solved it by instead of putting cs files in a folder, creating a new c# project, adding cs files, marking the Allow unsafe code property and adding a reference to this project in the Battle Tank project.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

James — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:25:08 GMT

I tried your tutorial, and I used the fix for 133 errors, but now i have 271 errors. any reason for this?

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

eric dye — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:09:58 GMT

I getting the same error as many, have tried lots of what was suggested without any look. Can anyone help (email me at erdye@cebridge.net if you can)

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Samples' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\EuchrePuker\EuchrePuker\GameEngine.cs 8 17 EuchrePuker

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Harris Durrani — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:07:04 GMT

Wow this is the best guide for noobs like me who dream of becoming a game developer one day.. Thanks alot Derek.. i really appreciete what you have done here :)

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

bob — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:46:23 GMT

Im 11 can some one tell me what the constructor

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Salty — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:26:48 GMT

I'm using visual c++ express and I can't seem to get the using namespace to work. Am I supposed to #include a file or something?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

CricketMaster — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:08:45 GMT

I tried doing this in VB Express 2005, but, when I enter "Microsoft.", on the parameter list, only the things from before I installed the SDK are there. The SDK version is June 2007, and I followed the previous instructions.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

TulipVorlax — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:26:07 GMT

I'm using SharpDevelop to do this. I state it because i dont know if things works the same in VS. It's that i've found the way to use the .cs file in my solution by adding a new CS project for it that i referenced in the VB project. Of course this wont wont work if you only have VB, it require a full VS install. But it work like a charm in SharpD.

See ya.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

QuestionMark — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:57:26 GMT

I don't see how this is helping me learn anything. I hit a directX proplem right after adding the folder, and there is not a single explanation on what to do if this happens.

Basically if I am copying you, I'm not learning anyway. But I am copying word for word right now, and its still not working right.

Not to mention the fact that after the adding of the DirectX folder You become very vague about where the code your talking about even goes!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Jamie — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:22:36 GMT

This doesn't work for me, it's producing 'The tpe or namespace name DirectX does not exist in the namespace Microsoft.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Chris — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:03:14 GMT

I am glad that you posted this set of tutorials, but this is really frustrating because when I go to compile them, in my I.D.E they don't compile correctly, can you please either update the code or recreate it, because it's not working.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

nick — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:53:38 GMT

so can anyone shed some light on why the I keep getting errors in regards to this command: Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit.FrameworkTimer.Start()

VB is telling me that it doesn't know what Samples is. I'm using the VB 2008 express, beta edition.

-thx

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

eddie — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:41:20 GMT

question 1.

when adding

" protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e){ } "

after the constructors,

where are the constructors exactly??

Also, Is this after the final brackets (i.e., }) or within "InitializeComponent();" ??

Question 2. Where do I place " this.Invalidate(); " exactly?? I've only had experience with visual basic and it has been a while.

I'm viewing the GameEngine.cs (code view) and there is already code present, so the placement of the code is confusing for me. Some of the code is specific in referencing, but I'm lost on the other.

Any clues?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Max — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:43:14 GMT

Does this method work for DirectX 10?

[The latest SDK available from Microsoft.]

Also, these codes are .NET C#/VB.

Is there way to port some of this to C++, for native code?

IMPO, C++ compiles/runs faster than the .NET languages.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Bob — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:45:14 GMT

So how do you reference the .cs file in Visual Basic?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Jake — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:17:34 GMT

the c# code doesn't work under VB if your using VB express edition. Sucks

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Hayden — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:23:26 GMT

Im using C# on Windows Vista Home Premium, and i cant find the DirectX folder on my computer in order to get the dxmutmisc.cs file. Is it something to do with DirectX 10?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Ahmad — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:35:51 GMT

Ok i had the same problem about dxmutmisc.cs but i fixed it (i think i havent finished the tutruiol) just rename the dxmutmisc.cs to dxmutmisc.vb it will give u the are u sure u wanna do this box click ok

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

A. Hao — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:11:30 GMT

Thanks. This is what I'm looking for

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

John. — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:17:05 GMT

Hi I am new to visual c# I am having issues with the render loop and I am not sure if I made a mistake it keeps saying Error 1 The type or namespace name 'paintEventArgs' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) if you could get back to my and help it would be great thanks.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

John — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:54:24 GMT

I'm also finding this hard to follow using VB. It would be nice to be able to see some scren shots of how the classes should look.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

david — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:14:50 GMT

i have 3 errors when i put the timer code in to the visual basic game engine file.

name delta time is not declared

samples is not a member of microsoft twice

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

David Powell — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:27:10 GMT

So far this tutorial is great! Thank you for taking the time to be clear about why you are doing the things you are doing. I hope to use this as a learning tool to improve my programming skills. The renaming and adding folders type of ideas are certainly important to me and I hope you keep providing them throughout your remaining publications.

The only thing that sucks is it takes too darn long to install DirectX. I'm ready to move on to the next tutorial but the SDK is still installing. :)

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

rob — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:38:06 GMT

i need help im a bit of a noob lol

when i put the code that says protected override void in the void is underlined and their is a error saying expected class, delegate etc. i dont know how to fix this i have tried loads of things

please help thanks

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Jason — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:15:18 GMT

"For this series, I am going to use both Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express. If you have not already done so, download the C# or Visual Basic Visual Studio Express"

So I download Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express and Direct X SDK

I start confuse when...

"Now we are ready to write some code. The first step is to create a new solution in Visual Studio 2005..."

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

rjbudz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:46:23 GMT

I'm stuck at the Using statement. I understand that, in VB it translates to an Imports statement. However, I get an error message:

Warning 1 Namespace or type specified in the Imports 'Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit' doesn't contain any public member or cannot be found. Make sure the namespace or the type is defined and contains at least one public member. Make sure the imported element name doesn't use any aliases.

Assuming the problem is that the Namespace can not be found, how do I add it?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

rjbudz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:38:00 GMT

I'm stuck at the Using statement. I understand that, in VB it translates to an Imports statement. However, I get an error message:

Assuming the problem is that the Namespace can not be found, how do I add it?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

jeffery carlson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:17:13 GMT

does the direct 3dx examples require a newer graphics card or can i use the 3d examples with my ibm thinkpad 600x or 600e video card ( made in 1998 or 1999 i think) i do have the direct x feb 2005 or close sdk but when i run the 3dk examples included in the sdk it says it needs a direct 3dk handle at runtime?

Any help as how to use the d3dk examples in vb.net without a newer graphics card?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

TRAVIS — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:09:34 GMT

HEY MAN IM HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THIS IM STUCK ON THE FIRST STEP IM USING .CS

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e){

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Buthweaty — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:37:58 GMT

Using the link here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb318701.aspx

I added the three references to my project. However, I still get the following error when attempting to build:

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Framework' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\_devel\BattleTank2005\BattleTank2005\DirectXSupport\dxmutmisc.cs 2189 61 BattleTank2005

I am using VS2005 (with latest Feb 07 DirectX sdk)

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Wayne — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:40:42 GMT

If you all read he explains that the program will no longer compile... The next article explains how to get things referenced. As pointed out in one of the above posts.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Daniel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:45:30 GMT

Instead of using microsoft paint, use a free photoshop-like program called Paint.Net

waaaayyy more fetures..

get it at getpaint.net

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Willy C — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:06:15 GMT

Ok guys, for all you VB people out there having trouble, this may help. If you find that you don't have the Microsoft.Samples namespace, dont be alarmed. Here is a very steps that you can do to get it.

Step One: Download this and extract it anywhere http://www.thezbuffer.com/downloads/VBSamples2005.zip

Step Two: Create a .dll project

Step Three: Add all the files in the VBSamples2005/Common2005 folder (except the icon)

Step Four: Have your .dll Project add the folowing references--

1. Microsoft.DirectX

2. Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D

3. Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX

4. System

5. System.Drawing

6. System.Windows.Forms

Step Five: Solve all the other trivial errors. Visual Studio should provide the corrections for these errors.

Step Six: Don't worry about the warnings

Step Seven: Build the .dll project

Step Eight: Add a reference to the .dll you created in your BattleTanks2005 project (the one being made here). The reference will probably be C:\Documents And Settings\(Current User)\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005 (or 2008)\Projects\(.dll project name)\(.dll project name again)\bin\Release\(.dll name).dll

Note: Use the "Browse" tab in the Add Reference Window to add it

Step Nine: Voila, you should now have the Microsoft.Samples namespace, albeit with only 1 sub-namespace, depending

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Detox — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:10:43 GMT

Hi there great instructions but im a bit lost

got to here

(At the top of the class in the using directives region add the following line of code:

Visual C#

Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit;Visual Basic

Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit)

but i think where ive put my code is wrong

i have 9 errors when debuged. i think the codes in the wrong place. any help would be Appreciated.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

jv — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:08:46 GMT

wat?! I cant find the directX stuff. its not there bbut it says its installed

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

sam — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:52:29 GMT

how would i the thing from direct X folder if its not the same Direct X

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Nikola — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:27:50 GMT

hey, im using the new directx sdk, and as far as i can tell, there is no dxmutmisc.cs file anywhere. is there anythin i can do?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Pete — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:48:54 GMT

o.k.

to fix the sdk issue i downloaded this file and extracted to the sdk directory.

http://www.thezbuffer.com/downloads/VBSamples2005.zip

Then added the correct dxmutmisc.vb file to the directxsupport dir. this caused allot of errors. to correct this i created a new item in the directxSupport dir and copied the native method region and the timer region from the dxmutmisc to my new .vb. then remove the dxmutmisc.vb item this solved all errors and i was able to run.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

kalle — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:51:12 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=77960733-06E9-47BA-914A-844575031B81&displaylang=en

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Liam — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:53:34 GMT

When I tried to compile, I got heaps of errors, saying it couldn't find bits of DirectX

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Angelic Endeavor — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:47:44 GMT

Ok, we obviously have a VB combatibility error here. I think that's proven when you download the SDK and it says it's only combatible with C, C++, and C#.

Some people have mentioned that this is a source for VB versions of DirectX, and that it has worked well for them:

http://www.thezbuffer.com/downloads/VBSamples2005.zip

The only problem is that getting those files installed properly is very tricky, and if anyone could elaborate (with lots of detail) how they installed those files, it would help the VB users of this tutorial.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Karl — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:30:47 GMT

I really wish people would actually read the article.

As Wayne said, the author very clearly states the result will NOT build and he'll sort that out next article. Now we have a thread packed out with comments saying it won't build (when he already warned that).

If you cannot even read the article properly now AT THE START then you shouldn't even bother with the rest as it gets more involved than this and you'll just ruin the comment thread for the rest of us.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

George — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:05:04 GMT

Are you able to make text based games using this software?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

-ande- — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:46:11 GMT

can i use a normal timer insted of that timer ? do i need the FPS rate timer at all ? whats the point

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Ella — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:45:43 GMT

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb318701.aspx

and don't download latest directX, there is no needed samples there. The latest version, which include these, is SDK August 2007

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Juani — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:59:00 GMT

I FIXED THE "POOL IS NOT DEFINED" AND ALL THAT FREAKING ERRORS IN VB!!

Im using VB.net 2005, and I downloaded the DirectX SDK like here says....

Then I used the dxmutmisc.vb from The Z Buffer Web,

and when I got all those errors, I:

right click on BattleTank2005 in the solution explorer, add references.... and Added all Microsoft.DirectX References, (if you have more than 1 Direct3DX, just select the newest version).

That solved the problem for me :D

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Joel — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:35:08 GMT

DIRECTX 9.0B SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT (SDK) FOR VISUAL BASIC .NET!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a69ef8e-e0f0-4dac-a218-8e420ff115ba&displaylang=en

That took me about 5 seconds to find not even looking for it, I did a search for "Visual Basic DirectX" and that was the first result.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

shadow99117 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:00:26 GMT

i suck at this i got lost after: "Next right-click Form1 in the Solution Explorer and select Rename. Change Form1.cs to GameEngine.cs" thats how much i suck

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

hotwu — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:07:09 GMT

Make sure you download the correct version of the SDK (The article states you need the latest SDK, but to avoid issues download from the link below). Since this article was written Microsoft had removed the managed directx samples/documentation from its installation. You will no longer find the recommended dxmutmisc.cs file in it's latest installs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=529f03be-1339-48c4-bd5a-8506e5acf571&displaylang=en&Hash=L4lP0gECz3rJGRin4wiCM%2bOO5OmiRLbOjvUiw80sUKBJvn3KN16GuQJTIEJ2udqXgBxkphP4sr8IO8SQ5tNAwQ%3d%3d

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

TonyS — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:45:18 GMT

To Shadow99117: Your problem is that you are trying to jump in over your head. This tutorial is intended to teach DirectX programming, but it assumes you already know the C# language and the Visual C# IDE very well. You need to find a tutorial on those things, and then come back to this. And you need to realize that learning a language well takes a few months, not a few hours.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

TonyS — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:24:40 GMT

You know what, forget my last comment. Or at least the part about coming back to this after you've learned C# and the IDE. I wrote that just based on the questions, before I read the article carefully.

When I did read it, I couldn't believe it. I read ahead, and looked at the whole series. What a mess.

Simply put, I wouldn't tell my worst enemy to learn coding from this series. Part of the problem is that it's over two years old, and many of the resources have changed, but it's a mess even without that. He purports to give you a step by step guide on setting up the environment, but leaves out adding the needed references, which explains the 500 posts saying it won't compile. He tells you about the references in the second installment. Well, OK, maybe that was just a glitch in the first chapter. But no, almost every installment begins with how to make the last installment actually work.

I guess even the author got sick of it, because the thing just stops dead after chapter 8. He says more is coming, but that was two years ago. I think more isn't coming. And I think that's fine.

Why Microsoft even leaves this thing up is beyond me. Find one that uses the latest versions, and then skim through the chapters, and make sure it doesn't spend half the time correcting what it did wrong, and REALLY make sure it doesn't stop in the middle. Check out the comments, and if people who seem to know their way around the IDE say the code won't compile, keep looking for a tutorial that works.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Burak Dobur — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:39:31 GMT

This tutorial is some of the worst i have ever seen. If you are still willing to learn how to write a game in VB try thsi great tutorial of Alan Phipps: http://www.alanphipps.com/VisualBasicdotNET-XNA.html

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:30:57 GMT

@Burak Dobur: This was written multiple years ago before XNA was around. Creator's Club and other sites around the internet have XNA solutions.

Thanks however for the XNA link!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Robert — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:20:37 GMT

This is an excellent tutorial, and I am grateful, but it is relatively useless to me (and some others, I am sure). I currently use visual c# 2008, as well as DirectX 10 (November 2007). As such, some of the files and steps that would otherwise be essential are impossible to do. I was curious if anyone knew either if a tutorial for DirectX 10/Visual C# 2008 is in the works, or where I might find one, but covering the same subject matter (the basic process of creating a simple video game)?

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Marco Maranao — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:07:56 GMT

I'm getting this error still:

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'ShaderFlags' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Documents and Settings\mmaranao.CGYBMIR\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\BattleTank1\BattleTank1\DirectXSupport\dxmutmisc.cs 524 16 BattleTank1

I made references to microsoft.directx and microsoft.directx.direct3d already and have also copied all the files for directxsupport. help?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Scott Thomason — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:55:23 GMT

If you want to take a slow step into game programming, try http://scott-thomason.org/vbrobocode

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

alex — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:32:01 GMT

This is my first time to really delve into game programming. Although in the past years I tried to focus on learning the basic programming in C++ so that in situation like this writing games as a hobby where I could use this knowledge would work at all. Probably I guess those times I just could not get the right link to keep myself up front but now with this C# language that I have started learning in weeks and the right programming environment using Visual Studio I am back to my interest. This tutorial fit exactly to people like and find it very useful the code are thorouhly explained. I would like to further improve myself professionally in game programming you as an online teacher in your on web site. Do you have?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:41:05 GMT

@Alex: You may want to try out XNA for further game programming. http://creators.xna.com/

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

VyperByte — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:45:35 GMT

I just got back into programming again and I can't wait to try this out when I get home from work. I learned VB back when its was 4.0 and I was 14 and taught myself most of the basics for it to run chatroom programs on AOL 4.0-6.0. My friend and some of his friends have started programming a game of their own so hopefully I can get into helping them after I learn a bit more about Visual C#. Thanks for the great Tutorial!!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Chris — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:46:54 GMT

I've been studying C# for 8 weeks, and I've taken coding classes before.

Writing any tutorial like this is a tall task to ask for free.... and I have newer revisions of software, with that said, there are tons of comiple errors not explained here. I've worked through a bunch of them, but overall I feel like I've just wasted 2 hours and am left searching for another tutorial.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:49 GMT

Hey guys, part of the problem is this is an old tutorial where the updated APIs break the build.

If someone would like to help update it, contact us and we'll update it.

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

jimi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:53:44 GMT

I tried downloading multiple versions of DirectX 9.0 and 10.0 and i still cant find dxmutmisc.cs (I am using C# by the way). In the febuary 2005 version there are no .cs files at all! please help

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

hal — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:58 GMT

i would love to help update it but i dont know enough and you wont find alot of skilled help here (title says "beginning game developement" so most of use dont know what to do XD. It would be great if you could update this though.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:57:26 GMT

@jimi, this article is pretty old and I'm not sure if Managed DirectX is supported anymore. I'd suggest switching to XNA.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Phil — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:35:46 GMT

I followed these tutorial by adapting a windows form program that I wrote myself in notepad and compiled it with the C# compiler in the .net SDK (I think it version 1.1) It all seems to work fine for me, although I haven't yet tried this with the IDE.

For those people who are having problems with compiling the program after following all the instructions in the tutorial to the letter, I would be happy to refer you to the paragraph above the summary in which it states:

"You will notice that the solution now will no longer build. This is because the classes in the file we added require DirectX to be referenced. We are going to cover which parts of DirectX we need in the next article."

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

marwyk — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:58:16 GMT

everyone make sure you download the sdk but for this tutorial you must not download any version later than august 2007. Any version later than that does not contain the managed components so you will not find them. Follow this link and not the one he gave you at the top of this page

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1fd20df1-dec6-47d0-8bef-10e266dfdab8&displaylang=en&Hash=MZJeWYCmff01536ppenf7BGEOpUnEIomOKl4ga%2bsDj4%2bn%2fqeoekDvS9Zi%2bvtMEVEKkWLGAw14Oqgkk%2bOfTyuVQ%3d%3d

Beginning Game Development: Part II - Introduction to DirectX

Coding4Fun — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:31:14 GMT

This is Part 2 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed

Beginning Game Development: Part V - Adding Units

Coding4Fun — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:37:46 GMT

This is Part 5 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed

Beginning Game Development: Part III - DirectX II

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This is Part 3 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

linden — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:18:06 GMT

Hi Rob,

Hope this may be useful to you:

C# is an object oriented language, and everything must be written in classes. It is not possible, like in C++, to have a Main method without a class. If you try to remove the class, and compile the Main method only, you will get an error similar to:

HelloWorld.cs(8,33): error CS1518: Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct

[http://www.ilopia.com/Articles/CSharp/IntroCSharp.aspx]

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Ed — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:07:43 GMT

Well I'm not an Intermediate I'm a beginner, so it turned a little difficult after some reading... :(

(I couldn't find C:\Microsoft DirectX SDK\Samples\Common\ in my SDK direcory there are

in ...\Samples\:

-SampleBrowser

-C++

-Media)

Sorry I can't continue...

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:34:05 GMT

@Ed, If you want to do managed code game development, I suggest using XNA instead. http://creators.xna.com they have tons of examples too and you can put it on your 360 as well as your PC.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

mohammad reza — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:52:37 GMT

I am trying to make a radar display for a research project with directx9

are there anyone help me?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

mohammad reza — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:53:18 GMT

I am trying to make a radar display for a research project with directx9

are there anyone help me?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Paraminder Singh Uppal — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:03:28 GMT

I think i have found the best tutorial for developing games in .net, very nicely explained by covering all the details.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

hhamm — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:09:25 GMT

Hi,

im just getting started with c# and all this directX stuff. Your tutorial seams to be what I need. But I have a 64 Bit Vista system and thought about using MS Visual Express 2008 which is free. On my journey through the internet I found some posts about c# and 64 bit issues. Whats about that? Does c# have problems with directX in Express 2008 on vista?

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hhamm — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:24:54 GMT

I found a solution for x64 systems and Visual Express 2008 in the msdn help at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/bb979385.aspx#ID0EIIAC. You have to set up your project for x86 CPU (the default value "Any CPU" causes an error : "ist keine zulässige Win32-Anwendung. (Ausnahme von HRESULT: 0x800700C1)". In Visual Express 2008 this is a "hidden feature" which first have to be activated.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:52:42 GMT

@hhamm DirectX in managed languages is no longer supported. It is actually EOL'ed. To do this now we recommend XNA. XNA however does not support native x64 builds but since any 64bit version of Windows also supports 32bit versions of the application running, this isn’t an issue. I'm currently running x64 on Win7 and doing XNA development just fine.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Orens Xhagolli — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:24:33 GMT

You can download DirectX versions when downloading DarkGDK in Express editions downloads. It will give you the link. I made it yesterday.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Orens Xhagolli — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:53:02 GMT

This tutorial is not for Visual basic, isn't it?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:42 GMT

It does have VB examples however managed DirectX is no longer supported. I would check out http://creators.xna.com for doing games with .Net

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Holy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:13:45 GMT

In my "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (March 2009)\Samples" there is no managed folder containing dxmutmisc.cs.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:21:04 GMT

@Holy I question how much managed examples are left in Direct X. I suggest checking out XNA instead for game development.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

kark — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:20:42 GMT

hi, i finish my game code already, but i dont noe how to make my code to installer, cause i wan use other computer dont have visual stdio 2008 play my game, hope ur all can help me, i am using c++ write code

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:59:17 GMT

@kark, try following this video: http://www.betterthaneveryone.com/archive/2007/11/07/how-to-create-a-project-installer.aspx

It is for c# but *should* do the job.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

JonR — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:54:16 GMT

After reading these comments I have to say something.. If you are trying to follow this tutorial and want to learn to program games, but don't even know what a constructor is, you need to stop what you are doing, this is way over your head. Please take some introductory computer science classes and learn about object oriented design. Game programming is difficult, especially for someone who doesn't know how to do any OOP.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

jh1507 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:20:35 GMT

Um...

Hi, Sorry this tutorial is obaviously irealivent now beause i can`t find dxmutmisc.cs in the folder BTW i`m using dx10 SDK do u have any other tutoirals for beggining C# 2D game dev.

Thanks Jordan

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:21:51 GMT

@jh1507 managed DirectX (that is using VB and C#) is no longer supported. Either use XNA to do your DirectX support needs or I'd recommend switching to C++.

Is there something XNA can't handle that you need?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Pete — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:19:48 GMT

I've downloaded the August 2005 version of the DirectX SDK to get the Managed code Samples. However when I get to the step of including dxmutmisc.cs, that file fails to build because it can't find the references to Microsoft.DirectX and Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D. Can anyone help me locate these references so I can add them?

re: Beginning Game Development: Part I – Introduction

Coding4Fun — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:32:35 GMT

@Pete managed DirectX (that is using VB and C#) is no longer supported. Either use XNA to do your DirectX support needs or I'd recommend switching to C++.

Based on the article date, a 2005 version of the directX SDK is going to be too old. I'm going to say go for a 2006 version near October.