Need advice for a fresh programmer of visual basic 2008 express

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Hi all.

My experience with programming is in the form of c# mission making for st legacy game and some nwn scripting.

I want to make a tool that is a map maker for worms Armageddon so people can easily make their own maps with it based on tile sets.

As im new. I would appreciate any help in links to tutorials or advice on how to build this tool.

I have a rough idea how it looks and works and a requirement that i can avoid the use of pure black as that will be what the game uses for transparency on maps. So i would like to make any color but pure black available to the colours used in tile sets so the tool then fills the space with pure black at the saving process.

I also want to have tile sets so people can make their own tiles and save as a pack which the tool can import and use. Tiles will be of say 10x10p up to 200x200p or somit. Lets say i make a standard set and in future either i or others can make a mario toolset to make themed maps etc and have people import these tool sets.

Cheers.
 
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If you already have experiance with c# then why not use the c# 2008 express?

As for the graphical side of things, you probably want to use GDI+ or Direct 2D (new and windows 7 only) to create your graphics for your designer.
 
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