VSTSDK and Visual Studio Express 2010

I am new to C++ and Visual Studio and have two questions:

Where do I need to put the VSTSDK so that VS recognizes it and I can use it in my projects?

Does anybody have some sample code for a VST hos开发者_开发知识库t?

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It doesn't matter where you put the VST SDK, as long as you tell Visual Studio. In Visual Studio, you can add any library and #include path, and that's what you'll need from the SDK.

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I would also recommend checking out the Audacity Source Code for a VST hosting example. There used to be a great vsthost.cpp example on the web, too, but I can't seem to find it. =/

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There are some few examples like, vsthost, vstboard, audacity. vsthost is using asio only, the 2 others are using portaudio and portmidi.

vstboard is using Qt for gui, audacity uses wxwidget.

The problem is : what kind of host do you need (simple for one plug in ora complex one) Also, you should take a look at JUCE library which offers good features for all of that even if I would prefer the vstboard design (Qt + portaudio)

good luck