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Topic: Making An App Utility. Which Environment To Use?

SparkyMcSparks

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 02:54 am
Want to make a utility application for CoD, but was wondering if I should go with Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++, etc...? Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Pedro699

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 03:09 am
Depends on its target and use really. If you are going for multiplatform then I would say Java, as they make a runtime for every major operating system (including mobile devices - not iPhone though AFAIK) If speed / performance is important then C++ would be something to look at, but if this isn't a major factor then using .NET or Java runtime would be my choice due to the ease of writting applications. The few CoD-related applications that I have produced were written in C# as that is the language I am most familiar with. I also find Visual Studio one of the best IDEs I have ever used and you can download a stripped down, language specific version for free if you don't have the full program. I haven't made anything with VB.NET, only VBA - but I believe the syntax is similar and I didn't like it! So personally I would stear clear.
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SparkyMcSparks

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 03:44 am
Just trying to make an app to manage user files and move them around. Only for Windows platform. With VB would users have to install a redistributable to use the program? Sounds like a variation of C with .NET might be what I should use?
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JerryTube

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 07:10 am
I would recommend C# as it is personally my favorite, and is very similar to Quake-C.
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cskiller86

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 10:25 am
Not sure what "manage user files" means, but DeekCiti has made an impressive backup utility program for CoD4. Check the download section, it's called Mapper's Delight.
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Pedro699

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 11:34 am
SparkyMcSparks writes... Quote: Just trying to make an app to manage user files and move them around. Only for Windows platform. With VB would users have to install a redistributable to use the program? Sounds like a variation of C with .NET might be what I should use? C + .Net = C# (more or less). VB uses the same framework, but all Windows (post XP) come with a fairly recent edition of .NET. If you are going for windows only I would recommend C# as there are less headaches involved.
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Welshy

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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 01:42 pm
I would go with VB personally. As Pedro said every windows OS since XP now comes with one of the versions of .net already installed. The latest version of VB has a installer creation wizard and allows you to add a URL for it to grab updates from.
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Category: General Posted: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 02:35 pm
If you want to write application in C++ language you can use free and good IDEs like Code::Blocks or Dev-Cpp, both use MINGW C/C++ compiler. These programs are really good in my opinion, if you are newbie to c/cpp you can use wxDev-Cpp that supports wxWidgets (something like "programshop" ;P). Grab it from: http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/
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