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General (Non FS) Development Questions - Looking at Some Software

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Hi guys,

These questiosn do not specifically apply to FS, but I will be using them for FS development :)

I am looking at a couple of bits of software, and would appreciate any feedback on them or any alternatives people can offer before I make my decision (unlike when I am buying FS addons, I am VERY selective about development software ;) ).

1) Help and Manual - this looks like a pretty good help compiler, and has the ability to publish to all sorts of formats from single source. Is it any good? Are there any alternatives?

2) I am slowly getting into GDI+, and GDI+ Architect from MRGSoft is now freeware! It looks pretty good for learning how code is used to generate images. Are there any other GDI+ code generators out there? Neodynamic ImageDraw SDK also looks appealing, but may be a bit heavyweight for my needs...

Thanks!

Martin
 
One thing to think about if you are planning something new is whether to use GDI+ or WPF. WPF is the future I think and there is a lot more help out there now on how to use it.

I use a graphics engine at the moment based on GDI+ but at some point I will replace the presentation layer on ADE with WPF.
 
It's funny, but I never considered using WPF for things like aircraft displays (I am talking outside of FS...). I haven't looked too much into it to be honest.

As CLR 3 (and 3.5) is available for XP as well, maybe I should look into it.

Damn, now I'm gonna have to buy more of those big thick programming books :D

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