Seaxouri
12-09-2005, 10:03 AM
For those who do not know, Microsoft has released their 'Express' packages, which are basically free development kits which look and feel just like the new MS Visual Studio 2005. People can edit/compile/link/debug both the client and server with these.. and it's all free. I had to do a little work on the server to get it to compile, and we use some deprecated functions still, so we get a few warnings, but it still works.
To get it working, you will need to download:
MSVExpress C++ (for server)
MS Platform SDK (for server because we use a lot of old stuff)
MSVExpress C# (for client)
MS Net 2.0 (for client to run)
MS Net 2.0 SDK (for client to link)
There are a few instructions that they give you when tacking on the Platform SDK onto C++ (they really don't want folks using the old stuff anymore... so we might want to consider rewriting it to use NET), but they are not too hard to follow and can be done in about 10 minutes.
To get it working, you will need to download:
MSVExpress C++ (for server)
MS Platform SDK (for server because we use a lot of old stuff)
MSVExpress C# (for client)
MS Net 2.0 (for client to run)
MS Net 2.0 SDK (for client to link)
There are a few instructions that they give you when tacking on the Platform SDK onto C++ (they really don't want folks using the old stuff anymore... so we might want to consider rewriting it to use NET), but they are not too hard to follow and can be done in about 10 minutes.