Visual C# to Program Game on PDA

Guys,

Can somebody please answer 2 questions for me. I am a total newbie to C# (not programming!).

Question 1:

Is Visual C# just the graphical tool to generate C# code? Really I suppose I want to know if there is a difference between the actual language C# and Visual C#?

Question 2

I want to program a small game for a pda running a scaled down version of Windows. I want to use C# but I have to program it using the .NET framework Compact which I believe only has 28% the functionality of the full .NET framework. Also, somebody said I couldn't use Visual C# for some strange reason?They said I would need to just program in C# i.e. handcode everthing?

I know that is a lot in one post but I'd really appreciate some insight on this.

Grungefreak1

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

I'm not into Games (either playing or programming), but I can answer question number 1 and the answer is C# is a programming language.

I have heard it referred to as Visual C#, but the only Visual C that I know is Visual C++ - for the .NET suite, C# is the language.

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Originally Posted by Hack

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

I'm not into Games (either playing or programming), but I can answer question number 1 and the answer is C# is a programming language.

I have heard it referred to as Visual C#, but the only Visual C that I know is Visual C++ - for the .NET suite, C# is the language.

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Thanks hack,

But my friend who is a programmer programs in C# but uses Visual C# Express to do so, so I presume then that this is simply an IDE in the style of the classic VB except for Object Oriented? What I'm trying to say is, it writes C# code but uses some GUI's for faster development like drag and drop controls onto forms etc...?

Am I totally wrong here?

GF

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Originally Posted by grungefreak1

Thanks hack,

But my friend who is a programmer programs in C# but uses Visual C# Express to do so, so I presume then that this is simply an IDE in the style of the classic VB except for Object Oriented? What I'm trying to say is, it writes C# code but uses some GUI's for faster development like drag and drop controls onto forms etc...?

Am I totally wrong here?

GF

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C# is the programming language. Visual C# Express is the IDE.:)

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Originally Posted by Atheist

C# is the programming language. Visual C# Express is the IDE.:)

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OK, that answers that then.Thanks.

GF

More general info:

The IDE is not the compiler, its just a pretty front-end to it.

You may have noticed there is a DOS shortcut in your start menu called something like: "Visual Studio 2005 Cross Tools Command Prompt".

Run that and run csc (see screenshot)...

That's the compiler that gets invoked by the IDE when you build a C# project. Its only complaining here because I haven't bothered to tell it what files to compile.