I need to develop a part of a business application in the style of flashy eyes. So I wanted to see if I can use DirectX. Here is what I got.
At first I read how using C / C ++ is like shooting on the foot, and I should use DirectX.NET instead. I could not disagree. This is the 21st century.
Loaded DirectX SDK, but could not find .NET assemblies there. A network search has now shown that DirectX.NET (MDX) is deprecated (released in 2006). And that I should use XNA instead, which was mainly developed for XBOX.
Download XNA. But it does not install, because I do not have C # .NET Express 2005 SP1. Installed SP1 on my VS Pro 2005. But it will not install still. He needs Express 2005 and this particular one version, not Pro, is clearly not 2008.
Frustrated, tried to download C # .NET Express, which is free. But a link from MS that says C # .2005 actually loads C # .2008 because C # .2005 is now deprecated.
And now I read that MS now puts it behind WPF / silverlight. And XNA does not support DX10, and Vista does not ship with DX9.
Now I have two options:
What will be your advice? Or am I missing something?
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. WPF/Silverlight? XNA? ?
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