[RESOLVED] XNA Tutorials and Reference for VB.Net

[Brinith]

I have been interested in making games for a while now. I tried to make them, but ultimately failed. Then my friend recommended XNA Game Studio. So I downloaded it and searched for some tutorials.. However all I got was posts from novices such as myself and people who just posted a code with no explanation. All that did was made me realize that XNA is harder than I seemed. Any of you guys have some good suggestions for XNA tutorials, e-books, or any other helpful reference pertaining to XNA?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Go over to the Graphics and Game Development section and look for Jacob Roman. He tends to hang out mostly there (and in chit-chat). He was working on an XNA tutorial, himself, though I don't know what state it is in. However, I would bet that he either has something useful for you, or knows what would work best.

[dday9]

I found a great book on amazon(Just search xna in amazon), and there is one in C#(obviously) and one in Vb.net. Better yet it was written within the year. Here is the link to the C# one, for some reason I can't find the vb.net one...

[Brinith]

Using XNA to make games, which would be more efficient? VB.NET or C#?

[dday9]

Well right now you can't use vb.net with xna to make xbox360 games. With c# you can. You will also find ALOT more documentation(books, ebooks, youtube videos, ect.) on XNA with c#. As for effeciency, I suppose it depends on which language you're most comfortable with. But like I stated above it would be easier to learn XNA in c#. Something I'm doing currently is learning C# with XNA, just to familiarize myself with XNA. Eventually I want to phase the C# out of my xna coding and use strictly vb with xna.

[Brinith]

I know for a fact that I am never going to make XBOX360 games, so that's not a problem. But the lack of documentation is, so I am going to try out C# first and see if I am comfortable with it.

[dday9]

If you all ready have a basic understanding of vb, more specifically the .net framework you shouldn't have any problem learning c# to write xna. Also, something that you may or may not know is that there is a c# forum on vbforums. You can find it here, or scroll down to .net

[Brinith]

I see, Ill check out the C# forum