Visual Studio 2008 has been quite my nemesis this semester. Students are having difficulty getting it downloaded for their computers because it's gigabytes of data. The system admins are having trouble getting it working right on the lab machines since they have to be able to deploy it. A security update removed an important macro breaking their own header files. The only real fix was the add the macro to your header files. Then they fixed that and you have to remove the macro because it is now doubly defined. The multimedia functions DirectSound and DirectShow are now in the Windows SDK, which installs massive amounts of stuff even if you only need those components. But, I think it have it all working now everywhere.
XNA 3.1 has been a pleasant experience so far. There's not a lot of updates other than in the sound support compared to 2.0, but they did fix some annoying bugs. It was nice to remove the bug fixes from the step assignments so we can use them this year.
Hopefully everything will settle down this week and we can get on with the semester.
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