Error with DirectPlay
I recently installed the August 2006 DX SDK, but I would like to install the 2003 release for the VB docs. Would this be fine, or could it possibly screw anything up? If so, what should I do?
EDIT: Well, I just installed the docs from the old SDK and everything seems to work fine.
However, I have a new problem. I tried running one of the VB DirectPlay demos, after upgrading it to the new version of VB, and I got the following error:
"Found conflicts between different version of the same dependent assembly"
Could anyone tell me how to fix this?
PS. I know DirectPlay is deprecated, but I resumed work on an old game of mine that used DirectPlay and I would like to make it work before trying other ways of networking.
The readme says its not supported, however many of us have done exactly this with no side effects. If you only do a partial install of the docs and samples for example it should be even less risky.
But since its not officially supported the risk is your. You may want to install to another machine, or a virtual machine to be totally safe.
Its deprecated so you are pretty much on your own... There are few people and fewer samples who have used it. You might try using filemon or process explorer from http://www.sysinternals.com to try to find which assemblies/DLLs are being loaded - maybe you can work out the conflict.
Its also not a good idea to just add a new question to an exisiting forum post - the thread title is wrong, the original question is already answered.
