How do I use the SDK with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

[Dark_Icer]

The project file wontt work and I am confused to how do i export it with the extremely lack of official documentation of any kind (yep Firaxis Games sure was smart about that one).

Edit I was thinking of Making a mod for the ICBM:
make a game option that allowed ICBM to destroy cities turning them into ruins (not water: that is way over doing it IMHO)

- Cities with a population of 3 or less will be turn into ruins killing all units
- Cities with a population of 4-10 will have a probability of being turned into ruins (factoring in city defense buildings etc)
- All Cities not destroyed will slowly lose 1population per turn due to Radiation poison if all Fallout in adjacent plots is not removed within 10 turns.
- An option to allow Civilizations to turn Over (Surender) it's cities to the Civ that launched the ICBM if and only if they have more 2 or more ICBM units availble.

Other planned Mods
Mole Unit: An early Spy unit can only Investigate Cities.
more Civics catagories: Health and Education.

 

[zx1111]

AFAIK, You can not use VC++ Express 2005 or VC++ 2005 Visual Studio for Civ4 SDK.
You may be able to compile it after some tweakings. But compiled DLL will refuse to run with current Civ4.exe.
Use VC++ Express 2003 or VC++ 2003 Visual Studio instead. Then you will have no problem.

 

[Dark_Icer]

CRAP I was hoping to advoid installing visual studio 2003 oh well will it work with VS2k3?

 

[Gerikes]

CRAP I was hoping to advoid installing visual studio 2003 oh well will it work with VS2k3?

I've been using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and haven't experienced problems. The .proj file needs to be converted to a .sln, but it does this automatically the first time you try loading it up.

 

[Dale]

It was actually written in VS2003.