The one on OrbiterWiki works pretty well. The only thing it doesn't go into is which libraries to ignore/not ignore but those things are not Orbiter specific anyway. You don't want to turn it into a general "how to use Visual Studio" tutorial - just keep the Orbiter specific info in there, IMHO.
tblaxland. No, sorry, my paragraph was really a bit ambiguous. I actually did mean for Orbiter dll's in VC++ 2008. That said, I have tried your instructions relating to the libs and taken note of the links provided. Yes, it is totally refined now, works great :speakcool::speakcool:!!! My breath breaks like fine cirrus in the vast sky of clear(er) comprehension. Thanks so much for the help and advice, once again...
......Yet it still compiles it to ./modules/shuttlepb.dll! How do I change what it compiles as?
I'm not sure that it is absolutely what everyone would prefer to do, but it does work and is easy. I renamed a project by doing the following;
Copy only the *.cpp and *.h files into a new folder, rename them if you like. Open the VC++ compiler and then select
create new project from code in the file menu, and specify your newly created path and name. You DO have to go through the compiler setup again (
I think of it as valuable practice), but after that's done you can make changes to an old project for developing a new one from it, in the editor, without any risk of overwriting the previous one in any way.
On another note (maybe it is a topic for a different thread) has anyone ever done any SAPI for Orbiter? With SpeechSDK or the like, maybe? Have not found any posts pertaining to it.