Ok... I got some good results so far.. but I also was handed a disturbing window dialog telling me my vs2005 C# 3.0 .net is unsupported or something from Microsoft.. but I managed to get the darkgd.net2 terrain demo running by doing the following:
1: Install this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1e902c21-340c-4d13-9f04-70eb5e3dceea&displaylang=en I know it looks old by the year, the beta tag etc.. but I couldn't find a newer one...
2: Make a new "project" (without the "create project directory" check box selected) in the same directory as the sample project you wish to try out that shipped with DarkGDK.Net .. I personally chose a unique name to not touch the existing *.sln for vs2008.
example path:
C:\Program Files\The Game Creators\DarkGDK.NET\Tutorials\Visual C#\Terrain
3: Remove the default files: form1.cs, program.cs, form1.resx from you new solution
4: add "existing item" .. all the file for the sample project/tutorial your looking at... in this terrain demo I added the fmain.cs, dgdkapplication.cs and program.cs files.
5: from vs2005 menu: Project->Add reference to DarkGDK (anything you see darkgdk related there DarkGDKPlugin was one, DarkGDKNet was another I think) ALSO.. seek out the LINQ thing... its in System.Data.LinQ.
6: Now, when I compiled I got three errors due to the missing "assembly" and all I had to do then was for each of the three errors... I had to change
to
And the demo compiled and ran. NOW.. this thread is still open... does anyone have any ideas they can add? Did I do something unnecessary? Is the link I gave for a download the best one? Is something newer available? Will that newthing work in vs2005? Is there a better way? Can I make that Unsupport 3.0 thing go away.. in other words can I make my vs2005 installation "supported" again? (Presumably it was supported until I installed the Linq Beta thingy)
Thanx in advance (and I hope this post helps the next person scratching their head on the same thing
--Jason