Languages supported

I'd like to know which programming languages XNA supports.

Thanks in advance for your answer

Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.9

Hi Luca82, Are you speaking to writing tasks in XNA Build If so those can be written using any .NET language. You can find more info on writing MSBuild tasks here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/t9883dzc.aspx

If this isn't the info you needed please let me know and I will get you an answer.

-Michael

I mean: in which languages will be possible write games with XNA

Thx again :)

Luca, if you're referring to the XNA Framework we have not announced the official list of languages yet. The demos we showed at GDC were all written in C#. But we are also evaluating ways of supporting additional languages such as Visual Basic or Managed C++. If you have any feedback about which languages you would like us to support, please let us know!

Brian Keller

Please support Visual Basic in XNA. We are a small studio currently porting a concept demo from VB6 using DX8.1 to VB.NET2.0 and MDX1.1. XNA is very interesting to us as our ship date is mid 07.

The performance achieved with vb6 and dx81 was impressive enough for a runtime language but so far MDX under .NET is running even faster. VB.NET is brilliant and makes it easy to keep big projects organized for a small team. Gone are the days VB is for amatuers only so please Include support for it in the XNA framework!

Thank you much,

T

I second that motion. I'm also using VB with Managed DirectX. Please make the XNA Framework accessable form VB.NET.

I third it, VB would make this an even better program that it is already (and I wouldn't have to learn a new language! haha)

Count me as four on that one.....

For XNA development you can use:

IronPython (home page)

Sample scene in IronPython: http://paste.lisp.org/display/24997
Samples transfered from C# to IronPython: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx%3fPostID=682285

Visual Basic (home page)

More then 20 samples for XNA (great!): http://www.alanphipps.com/VisualBasicdotNET-XNA.html

F# (home page)

Samples on hubfs.net forums: http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/562.aspx
Lesson about XNA in F#: http://grammerjack.spaces.live.com/

Microsoft Visual C++ (home page)

Sample http://mawsoft.com/blog/%3fp=31

I also use VB.NET.

Can you give us the current status of VB implementation by XNA Thanks.

leslie

Don't hold your breath waiting for official support for VB. XNA works with Visual Studio already and there's still GSPro coming down the pipe sometime, so I wouldn't expect them to have much time for integrating other languages into GSE.