Michael Dunn - Professional Profile

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--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP
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1. Run the VS6 installer. The first thing it will do is update the Java VM. Once that's done, let it reboot the machine.
   
2. Once you've rebooted and relogged, the install wizard will come up automatically. Close the wizard right away. The wizard is not running elevated, so it won't be able to do its job.
   
3. Rerun the wizard and install the VS components you want.
   
4. When you get to the part where it prompts you to install MSDN, I said no because I'll install it later. Continue on with the wizard (I don't install any of the additional stuff) and finish the process.
   
5. Put in your Oct 2001 MSDN disc and run the installer on the disc. I had no hiccups at all installing this.
   
6. Run VS6 once and close it right away. I got in the habit of doing this because years and years ago, the Platform SDK wouldn't install if you had not run VS once yet.
   
7. Install VS6 SP6. Again, I had no troubles here. Run VS once and close it just to be sure.
   
8. Install the Platform SDK. Because the installer uses an ActiveX control, you'll be stuck if IE is not your default browser. If this is the case, either make IE the default temporarily, or drag default.htm from the root of the disc into IE. IE will ask you if it's OK to run active content to run from the local machine, say yes.
   
9. Use the PlatSDK Visual Studio Registration tool to add the PSDK dirs to the VS include and lib paths.
   
10. Optional: Create a shortcut to msdev (I pin it to the Start menu) and set the shortcut properties to always run the app elevated. I need to do this because otherwise I can't build DLL COM servers; regsvr32 needs write access to HKCR and HKLM, which it won't have unless the IDE is running elevated.
    
11. Run VS6 and enjoy your IDE! In beta 2, MSDN didn't run unless it was elevated, but this has been fixed in RTM.

--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP
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• A solution contains a number of projects
• A project contains a number of configurations
• A solution configuration is a list of projects and project configurations

• At any point, there is a current solution configuration
• At any point, there is a "StartUp Project"

• VC 7 didn't preserve some settings like "what kind of CRT to use"
• VC 7 couldn't keep its own source control settings straight. In one dialog it would act like VSS wasn't installed, yet in the options dialog it clearly said VSS was installed.
• During the project conversion, the above VSS problems resulted in a totally incomprehensible dialog, which I think was asking me to tell it where some projects were in the repository. Unfortunately, the dialog was pre-filled with the right locations so I didn't know what else I could do to make it find the projects.

The Ultimate History of Video Games[^]

A huge (600+ pages) and extremely well-written history of the video game industry, starting in the pre-Pong era and ending in 2000. It's a great read and literally hard to put down. If you were around for the initial 80's boom but weren't keeping up with the politics and flying lawsuits (for example, Nintendo vs. Universal over Donkey Kong being too close to King Kong) this book will be especially enlightening. If you're a youngun' who has never had a computer slower than 300 MHz, well...
 

Behind the Games: Daikatana[^]

Getting a little more modern, this is a long article on probably the second-biggest modern game debacle (Duke Nukem Forever being #1), documenting the beginning of Ion Storm and what the game went through during the years of development.