Confused.... please help!

[^Johnny2Bad]

Hi,
I got my hands on a copy of VS 2008 .NET and downloaded the march directx SDK. However I am unable to access the XNA namespace.

How do you go about adding XNA references to a project manually or automatically if possible?

Cheers,
Jonathan.

[STLDude]

Each C# project has References folder (in Solution view when expanded), there you can click with right mouse button to get context menu and choose Add Reference... From here I'm sure you can figure out the rest of it.

[^Johnny2Bad]

Hi,
Yeah I've done that but still the XNA libraries are not available. I could just do managed directx code, but I would prefer to use XNA. Any more ideas, or am I totally mixed up?

[CBasicNet]

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF80D533-BA87-40B4-ABE2-1EF12EA506B7&displaylang=en)

You have to download the XNA 2.0 SDK, iirc XNA 2.0 only works for VS2005, I am not sure if this is changed, as the installer in the link above is March 2008, you can install and try and see if it appears in your VS2008. And XNA does not need DirectX SDK to be installed.

Hope it helps.

[^Johnny2Bad]

Okay guys that is the lead I needed, now I have a question. When will they release XNA Game studio for visual studio 2008?

I'm not going to fork out $800 for VS 2008 unless it is a fully working version.

Thanks,
Jonathan.

[CBasicNet]

You can use Visual C# 2005 Express for XNA 2.0. As for the coming XNA 3.0, I guess there will be support for VS2008.

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/