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Hi James, Sorry it's taken so long to respond to your question. > Within Visual Studio 2010 I am developing a fire ecology model in C++ on > a NSF grant. I would like to open, and read in a netCDF file directly > into my C++ program. I have read through most of help documents and I > have a few questions: > > 1. Is there a method that will access netCDF files from within Microsoft > Visual Studio 2010 for a C++ program. We make available DLLs for C and C++ libraries for 32-bit Windows platforms. Here's an explanation of the current DLL situation: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2011/msg00175.html > 2. If so, which version of netCDF library is recommended The version used for building the DLLs above is 4.1.3-rc1 (release candidate 1), which is what we currently recommend. > 3. Is there a set of instructions for such, and is there a direct link > to them. If the above instructions are insufficient, send us another question to address@hidden and we'll try to provide a timely response. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UBI-923656 Department: Support netCDF Priority: High Status: Closed