C# and the X-Box

[bsisko]

Does anyone know if its M$ intent to make this the primary language to write games or other software on for their new X-Box coming out soon.

 

[Karl Blessing]

C# is intended for Webbased/Internet portability, I doubt they're going to use it for any of their games , the language of choice will be upto the game developers (in my experience, Microsoft never made a game, they just contract people, or they buy an old game and give it a face lift) basically any language that can compile to x86 will work , so more than likely VC++ will be a prime choice.
Karl
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[mbaranski]

So if it's portable, does that mean that it will run on other OS'es or it's proprietary, too? Isn't that one of the advantages of some other, very similar!, languages, like Java? As always, I hope that helped!

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[Karl Blessing]

the difference is tho, that an Xbox's configuration will always be the same, it's not as if you are writing it for Xbox98 then all the sudden XBoxMacOS comes alone, it's going to be based on Windows2000, so with whatever Software Development kit microsoft makes, you can easily make games for the Xbox with vC++ or Visual Basic, and such, C# is targeted towards internet development not, desktop development
Karl
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Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)

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[Guest_imported]

There will be a c# and DirectX 8 release that will allow developers to take advantage of DirectX 8 for writing games to the xbox.