hello all. i was searching the internet trying to find a community of developers who code with metamod and i'm very happy to know this place exists!

i've written a few amx plugins, am strong in php, c#, and i know just enough c++ to be dangerous.

i want to start seeing what i can do with metamod, but i'm a little unclear how this all ties in with the HLSDK.

i have the SDK and metamod source here, and all i want to do is compile the stub_plugin as it is said to be just the base that a plugin needs.

here are my questions:
1. can i use visual studio.net to work with this?

2. i opened the project and tried compilling. when i try compilling it, i get errors saying that extdll.h doesn't exist. i then added the extdll.h file from the sdk to the project, and then i get an error on the same file saying 'no such file or directory'

can anyone give me a couple tips to get me on track here?

please exuse my n00bness in this area. thanks.