thanks in advance

Nope, only works on Visual Studio 2005, not express.

thank you! i've wasted all my weekend trying to get this to work with express 2008
thanks again

No problem with MSVS 2005SP1, 2008, 2010beta.

oh ok….
now trying to get VS to debug/run it
there's no clear instructions for setting this up anywhere!
:-(

Try looking in the “Intro to the HDK” section here:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk10.0/ [sidefx.com]

or here

http://odforce.net/wiki/index.php/HDKFrequentlyAskedQuestions [odforce.net]

thanks guys but i've already tried those 2 resources

odforce talks about setting it up for VS2003 (which has a different project settings layout compared to VS2005)

but i've just noticed the compiling section in the HDK 10.0 docs - talks about using makefiles

if i can figure out how to call make files using VS2005 (i normally use Eclipse so i am not used to this) then i should be good to go!

thanks again!