Stuck with Express only release...

It is ok for me that XNA is intended for Express... but why is the Managed DirectX 2.0 dicontinued

I ported all my code to MDX2.0, I plained to move to XNA as soon as possible. But I cannot change yet because I'm using Source Safe to work at several places, and there is no SourceSafe integration in C# Express... And I cannot run my current version because MDX2.0 launches an Exception at startup.

My only option is to port back to MDX1.1... but I really don't want to have all this extra work to just port it to XNA in a few month...

During this time I'm stuck. Or I have to move to express, without SourceSafe and Resharper. My work will slow down drastically and I have already only few time to spend on it.

Could you just re-release a MDX2.0 working preview just to let people in my case wait for the future XNA release for VS2005 without extra useless work !

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Stuck with Express only release...

RMan54
1) You should consider TFS if you can get a license. Source Safe is horrible.

2) XNA is go live in 1 month and 1 day.

3) There's no reason you can't USE VS 2005 with the XNA Framework (add references), you just won't get any of the extra tools. You might have to have express installed simply to use the Content Pipline - considering that that's the only thing in Express that's a helper (other than the "Project Templates").

4) If you don't use TFS, then you are stuck with the Source Safe client. Life is hard.

Good luck. I have no doubt, however, that Microsoft will NOT re-release MDX 2.0. The team has moved on and there is no MDX team at MS (as far as I know) anymore. You're stuck with XNA or nothing.
Boot2TheHead
Also, a nice alternative to Source Safe that can work alongside Express versions is Subversion and Tortoise SVN. It doesn't work as a plugin with Express but you can simply browse to your project's directory and tell Tortoise SVN to commit that directory to the repository. Now in the real Visual Studio Pro there is the plugin called AnkhSVN which works amazingly well with Visual Studio Pro.

Like Cale said, there is only 1 month left till the release of the first XNA, so it is not too long of a wait.
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