A few questions concerning about C#.... Has C# come out yet?? if yes, are there any complier for it?? If not.. when will it come out? In terms of, game programming, what are the impact for the coming of c#?? Would C# be faster then C?? Is it easier to programe not only in terms of game programming, but gernal programming as well.....???? thank you

A few weeks ago i sent a mail to microsoft asking more or less the same questions. I few days later I really got an answer.

C# will come out as part of Visual Studio 8. But there will also be a stand-alone version of C#. Maybe a bit earlier.

C# will have an easier to use interface. It will be more like VB or Delphi. Features include also type safety, .NET Framework,
C headers are gone in C#... (refer to www.msdn.microsoft.com)
In other words it will be alot easier than VC

C# will not produce native code -> its code will not be compiled but interpreted. Therefore C# aims more on internet developement than on traditional programming. (won''t be as fast as VC code)

C# is not intended to be a game-developers language.
->VC will remain the standard for gameprogramming

Well, thats what they told me in the mail.
The final product might differ from what i''ve written, as the mail was no official statement.

Firstly, I wish people would stop referring to VC like it was a language VC is just a compiler. C and C++ are the languages it supports so the comparison should be made between C# and C++.

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C# will come out as part of Visual Studio 8

You must mean Visual Studio .NET Suite.

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C# will not produce native code -> its code will not be compiled but interpreted

Hmm thats not true. It can be compiled into a DLL or EXE. How would you produce COM+ components if it couldn''t be compiled? Go to this article C# on MSDN and scroll right down to the bottom. They mention that a compiler will be available by the end of July.
Therefore, the language is supposed to be compiled !

To further clarify the compiling of C#:
(taken from PDC#)

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As you may have read by now, the C# compiler emits MSIL, or Microsoft Intermediate Language. Contrary to popular belief, a virtual machine (VM) or similar technology does not interpret this IL. Instead, the IL is converted to native code, either when its application loads, or on demand by one of several just-in-time compilers. Once this translation occurs, the executed code is native.

I hope this helps...

- Dire Wolf
direwolf@digitalfiends.com

What is .NET? Is it just the name of the new visual studio? I seen .NET mentioned in a few places, not always with visual studio, so what is it?