Starting flhook and c++

khayman

So, with the seemly lack of resources and confusing posts and links ive decided I will have to bite the bullet and just ask (sorry).
Some of you may know that ive been creating a freelancer mod for a good few years now. All the flhook(s) / plugins are really great and ive been using and test all of the many variants. And I have now reached the stage where I would like to try making plugins for myself. I’m not asking people to make flhook plugins etc for me but I would like to ask for some info and help.
Ive downloaded visual basic 2008 express edition and began following easy tutorials found around the net ( “Hello world” ) etc.
After visiting the forge and downloading different files etc, then reading about all the different versions ive found myself deleting everything I downloaded and now im wanting to start fresh.
Can anyone please give me a brief step by step guide to getting started?

for example:

1.download flhook sdk (version)
2.compile it into vs2008

Any and all help would be great, thanks for reading.

Khayman.

Schmackbolzen

Before you go through all the trouble: How good is your c++ knowledge, especially when it comes down to low level c stuff like pointers etc? If you know x86 asm it would even be better, but not necessarily depending on what you want to do.

Also a more general question: Do you have any experience with other programming languages?

khayman

Thanks for the reply,
At present i’d say i was at a novice level and now see how much i have to learn about programming. And also it shows me what you guys have created and all the knowledge thats needed. Maybe i can return to this subject in the future when i have a better understanding of it all.
In the mean time, thanks for listening and showing an interest in helping.