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Which VS2005 Language

SteveEJ

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Hello,
I am starting to program again (former asm, C and VB/Basic) and have just installed VS2005 and the FS-X SDK. Which language gives the best access to the most SDK Functions and Subs? If I am going to learn another language, in order to interface with FS I would rather use the one that has the best and/or most straight forward access to the SDK's.

Thanks,

Steve

FS2004, FS-X Deluxe and X-Plane
 
That depends on what you want to do :-> If you want to create aircraft gauges, those are made in either C or a custom XML dialect. For external addons (either DLLs that are loaded within the FSX process or EXEs that are loaded outside of the FSX process space), you can use the SimConnect client API. SimConnect is available to both unmanaged C/C++ and also as a managed layer for use by .Net languages (C#, VB.Net), although the managed layer can only be used by EXE style addons (as FSX doesn't support loading the CLR within the FSX process space, although some folks have hacked it in :-> ).
 
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