Monday, September 21, 2009

Finally got Visual Studio 2008 working everywhere

I finally figured out all of the Visual Studio 2008 issues. There was a problem with the deployment last week that killed the new application wizard. Adam fixed that last week. Then I started to get questions about missing dsound.h. It's been two years since the last time I taught CSE 471. At that time we were using Visual Studio 2005 and the Platform SDK. The Platform SDK comes with a program to configure it's paths in Visual Studio, but it doesn't seem to do anything, so I had created a page on how to configure the paths manually. I thought this issue was resolved in the latest version (now the Windows SDK) and Visual Studio 2008, since it installed properly on my machine. However, now it does something even more strange. Not only does it not install itself, but it seems to uninstall he paths for DirectX. And, it doesn't always do so. Sometimes it all works just great. Other times it fails. It fails for the lab machines. So, I created a new page on setting the paths and posted it this morning. This seems to have resolved all of the lab issues and should fix a per personal machine issues as well.

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