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As most of you may (or may not) know I am still in High School. This upcoming year I have "Computer Programming I" in MS Visual Basic. I was just wondering what, if any, types of applications use Visual Basic to "work with" FSX. Will learning Visual Basic be any help in making programs that would interact with FS?

I'm probably way off, but if I could get any advice it would be nice! :)
 
Pete Dowson's FSUIPC for both FS9 and FSX provide "support" for VB applications...
 
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Pete Dowson's FSUIPC for both FS9 and FSX provide "support" for VB applications...
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Thanks for the reply. So what are some things that could be possible using VB + FSUIPC?

(Sorry, I know these are probably pesky little questions but I'm curious :) )
 
Oh, fuel loader utilities, pax & baggage loader utilities, etc.
 
So this could be used in scenery design to do stuff like open hangar doors and turn on runway lights? :)

and btw, thanks for helping! ;)
 
I assume we are talking about VB.Net here? Visual Basic will generate applications that can do most things. Generally it is a matter of choice which programming language you use. For all practical purposes, once compiled there is no difference between a program created in VB to one created in C#. So most of the applications you see could just as well be created in VB as C# or C++. There is a long running debate as to whether 'managed code' such as that created by VB or C# creates applications that are slower or more cumbersome than those created by C/C++. This is why most time critical stuff like games (including FS) has traditionally been written using C/C++ but things like the XNA framework for creating games uses C#.

So bottom line is you can create programs like ADE, AIFP, MCX and so on using VB.
 
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Ok that answers quite a bit for me! (I doubt I'll ever be as good as you guys though ;))

Thanks! :)

and yes, I meant VB.net ;)
 
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Hi,

Opening hangar doors or turning on runway lights is usually not done from an external application. It would be possible, but the trouble are more on the FS side, than on the side of programming the application.
 
You can also use VB.NET with the SimConnect interface. I find it much easier than getting too it using C++, but maybe that's because I'm just used to managed code.
 
I think it depends on the interface provided.
If there are any conversations implemented then you might be free using any other language.
Talking about FS, any Language beeing part of "Visual Studio" works, BUT there are some preferences that make life easier.
At least taking that FS-SDKs into concern, most of them life from XML and are not that easily to be accessed in other ways.
OK, if your program generates that xml and then gets it compiled by any FS compiler, thats a different question.
Then you are free to use what ever language you might decide.
There are other areas in FS where you are better off in executable code programming, e.g. Gauges, my personal thinking.
What ever language you select it needs to represent the FS-demandments.
Sometimes strange to meet, these xxx.h files at least seem to implement the Cxxxxx behavior, from C, C++, C#, what ever. If you are using Visual C#, you never might have any problems, as it integrates from the point of objects or objects implementation, now not complaining about the correct wording, best into what ever MS-Code, including Silver.
 
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