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• XNA Studio Express -- Requires C# Express?

  While I don't plan on being the next John Carmack , I was pretty stoked to see that XNA Studio Express went RTM recently. Except for one small problem...XNA will only run on machines with C# Express installed; the full blown non-express SKU's (Professional, VSTS, etc) aren't compatible. I do realize that an XNA Professional release is in the pipeline, but I'm not going to install C# Express just to play around with the XNA Express bits (even though it's very tempting). I think it's kind of silly... Posted Dec 13 2006, 02:32 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Gameage, Irks

• So That's Why My Orcas CTP Wasn't Mounting

  I recently downloaded the September CTP VPC image of Orcas (aka Visual Studio vNext) only to find that the image I downloaded refused to mount in Virtual PC. Thankfully I just stumbled across Jon Galloway's post about just this issue here . In a nutshell, there are two VPC images I needed to download; I only snagged the base image (which contains the operating system) and missed the image containing the actual Orcas bits. Note to self, always read the (full) instructions . I'm a happy camper now... Posted Oct 01 2006, 01:19 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Irks