The SDK supports both Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio 8 (2005) versions. If you don't like the command line interface and makefiles, you can convert a makefile to a Visual Studio project.

To do this, type msdev (Visual Studio 6) or devenv (Visual Studio 2005) in the command prompt window from which you executed the install.bat script. Then select the menu File/Open Workspace in msdev and then select the desired makefile. Save the project and you can then close the command prompt window.

	Note
	You need to start msdev from the command prompt so that msdev will see the environment variables defined by the install.bat script!

	Warning
	We strongly suggest that you use makefiles instead of Visual Studio IDE project files. Makefiles allow you to build your plugins on any platform whereas Visual Studio IDE projects work only on Windows.