Are Visual C# or Game Studio buggy?
Another question I have: will Game Studio Express support shader development in the way that Render Monkey or FX Composer do or in any other way?
Another question I have: will Game Studio Express support shader development in the way that Render Monkey or FX Composer do or in any other way?
As for your first question, please file this bug on connect. Any details you can provide (such as what you had been doing) if anything seems to cause it more or less would be really helpful.
You'll be able to use .FX files through the XNA Framework Content Pipeline, however using one of those tools is still a good way to iterate on them.
Thanks!
So the XNA content pipeline won't support shader development?