Adding new languages to Visual Studio
I am playing around with Lua lanuage and saw that someone created a LUA.NET (http://bandodalua.lua.inf.puc-rio.br/luanet/), when I download what they have it only appears to be a stand alone compiler, how do I get Visual Studio to support making new LUA projects?
LuaInterface for Lua.NET is only a wrapper to call lua code and the other way around from any .NET language (same way as it works with c++ code). The real thing (IMO, I am really waiting for it ^^): Lua2IL isn't released yet. This would enable you to use Lua as a .NET language and not only write code directly in VS, but also call it from any other .NET language natively.
If you just want to code/display some lua in VS simply use LuaLite Syntax Highlighting: http://www.sjbrown.co.uk/lualite.html
A nice standalone compiler/interpreter for Lua is QDE: http://www.quotixsoftware.com/qde_index.htm
If you just want to code/display some lua in VS simply use LuaLite Syntax Highlighting: http://www.sjbrown.co.uk/lualite.html
A nice standalone compiler/interpreter for Lua is QDE: http://www.quotixsoftware.com/qde_index.htm
Generally, if you want to incorporate new languages into the Visual Studio IDE, you need the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program. It used to cost $10,000 and involve lots of really heavy ATL/COM C++ code, but now it's free and you can do most of it in a managed language like C#.
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