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Old May 5th, 2006, 12:45 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by lectricpharaoh
Ugh. Perhaps it would be pretty at first, but this sort of thing quickly loses its appeal. It's just extra bloat and performance costs, with little or no actual value. And yes, I'm the kind of guy who sets WinXP to use the 'classic' look whenever I'm using an XP machine.
Yup. A 'managed' version of DirectX has been around for a while now, and while I expect it's easier to use from C# than VB.NET, it's certainly possible to use it from the latter. After all, .NET is .NET, whichever language you use.
Personally I use C#. I could probably use VB.Net if I tried, but for some reason I feel much more comfortable with C#. I thought he was talking about vb6. I've looked at vb6 and DX, and it's not exactly great. If you just looking to play around with it, then it's fine, but I wouldn't use it for any game programming even remotley high end.
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