xavierobre

Thanks all for your replies. Your help is much appreciated. Best regards, Xavier

Thanks again Pete! Best regards, Xavier

Hello Pete, You said you are using Visual Studio 2003. Is it the .Net platform? Thanks again, Xavier

Thanks for the quick reply Pete I have been working with VB since 4-5 years and I naturally turned to this language to try and develop something for FS... I guess that reading your answer that there is no real other way but with C... Any advice on which tools to use (editor, compiler, etc)? Thanks & regards, Xavier OBRE

Hello, This is my first post and I am complete new to this, so please a little help and lots of indulgence will be appreciated. I would like to start developping gauges for MSFS. I have searched over the Internet and have found the SDK from MS but I have to admit that I know little about C or XML programming. However, I am ok with Visual Basic. I just found the SDK for FSUIPC and Visual Basic and I managed to create simple external applications calling FSUIPC (mainly to log the path of the aircraft). I am quite happy. However, I do not know if it is possible to use a similar approach to create gauges. I have read that gauges are dlls. I know how to develop dlls with VB but I think that these dlls are ActiveX dlls. Is it the case with the gauges? Did anybody already managed to develop some gauges with VB or do I have to start from scratch (ie buying "C/C++ for Dummies")? Thanks & regards, Xavier