Hello First of all I'm not here to start a flame war, I know how these C++ VS C# topics are. I'm only asking for advice. I've been working on my engine in C++ for quite long now and I'm starting to get tired of annoying things like reference counting, shared pointers, my homemade string & vector classes and the general headbanging that often comes along with C++. I might already have switched to C# if it wasn't for the need to install Windows XP SP2, but now I'm seriously thinking about this. I'm starting to be discouraged at programming because I've been programming engines for so long but I've never actually created a game using C++. I feel like I need the added simplicity of C#. I was wondering if porting an engine from C++ to C# was complex and if there are things I should know before doing so. The thing I'm afraid of is the complexity of porting windowing code, as I think the WinAPI doesn't exists in such shape in C# (maybe happily). I'd also like to know if OpenGL has a "standarised" C# binding which would allow me to use the exact same functions as I was doing.

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That's what the SC++L is for... ;)

In general, porting to C# is not that difficult at all. The language is easy to pick up; the hardest part after a while becomes realizing how much of your C++ code you can simple discard rather than port, because the code addresses a need that does not apply or that is already covered by part of the C# standard library.

I don't use OpenGL, but I do know there are a number of libraries out there for talking to GL from managed code, so you should be fine.

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my homemade string & vector classes

That's what the SC++L is for... ;)

I know I should've used stl and that's one of the reasons why my engine starts to piss me off. For some reason I have a moral problem with not re-creating everything by myself in C++ and I think it'd be different in C#.

About using Ogre/IrrLicht, I couldn't live with myself if I never made a game using my engine I built for more than 6 months lol.

I'm going to look into C#. I Only have one problem : I cannot get microsoft Visual studio express edition 2005 .net because I'm running on winxpsp1. I have convinced myself to upgrde to sp2 but I can't find how to! Windows update wants me to install 64 security patches but none of them is the service pack 2... I really don't know what to do!

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I'm going to look into C#. I Only have one problem : I cannot get microsoft Visual studio express edition 2005 .net because I'm running on winxpsp1. I have convinced myself to upgrde to sp2 but I can't find how to! Windows update wants me to install 64 security patches but none of them is the service pack 2... I really don't know what to do!

You keep running windows update until there ain't any more updates to install, by that stage you should have SP2 [smile]

That's exactly what I feared! Ah well... thank you!