For the Past year or so I Have been learning to program using Visual Basic (Express) I wanted to start dabbling in 3d Graphics
Since Direct X is no longer supported by Visual Studio I wanted to try xna sdk but I have come to understand that visual Basic ( express) is not supported for this ether. yet the other Express versions of visual studio are. So reluctantly I decided
to try my hand at C# unfortunately the download link for Visual studio C# ( Express ) does not start the download it only opens another tab in my browser which never loads. I left it loading for 15 min , and got nothing, no web page no download, nothing .
every attempt I have made to report this condition to a Microsoft representative has been met by the runaround. I spent over an hour on the phone today on hold and getting bounced from one department to another. Each department telling me that this sort
of problem was the responsibility of another department.
Come on, Really is this how Microsoft Does business??
First of all, Why should one Programing language be singled out, if all the rest of the visual studio express vertions can use the xna sdk then Why not Visual basic??
Secondly, Why all the runaround on the support line? do your representatives really not know which departments are responsible for Visual studio C# download Failures ??
up until I ran into these issues I was seriously thinking of buying the new (full Version ) of visual studio. but now I am starting to feel relived that I Did not
