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August 2009 DirectX SDK Now Available
The August 2009 DirectX SDK download contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge, media-rich, interactive applications. It inc... Mehr

Learn More About New DirectX Technologies, Direct2D and DirectWrite
With PDC 2008 came the announcement of two new graphics technologies for mainstream application developers: Direct2D, a high-perfo... Mehr

Learn More about Direct3D 11
New in the Direct November 2008 DirectX SDK is the Direct3D 11 Technical Preview for Windows Vista. Click here for in-depth guides... Mehr

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Internet Explorer announces to use DirectWrite & Direct2D!
Today, the Internet Explorer (IE) team announced they will be using DirectWrite and Direct2D for IE9! Channel 9 takes us through to the halls of... Mehr
Wednesday, Nov 18 - Aisha Ayoub

Working Around Problems in ID2D1Bitmap's CopyFromBitmap and CopyFromRenderTarget
Developers using the ID2D1Bitmap::CopyFromBitmap and ID2D1Bitmap::CopyFromRenderTarget APIs may notice problems when the source and destination rectan... Mehr
Tuesday, Nov 17 - Tom_Mulcahy

Windows Imaging Component: Working with Images in Windows
What is it? Windows Imaging Component (WIC) API enables applications to work with all common image formats. It allows developers to not have to und... Mehr
Friday, Nov 13 - Varun Bhartia

XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions
Are you as excited as we are at today’s arrival of the Zune HD? If you've already picked yours up from your local retailer or are eagerly awaiting you... Mehr
Tuesday, Sep 15 - XNABlog

PAX 2009… full report coming soon!
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Wednesday, Sep 9 - XNABlog

Creators Club Communiqué 33
Greetings and glad tidings to everyone! We’re fast approaching the close of one hot summer here with the Seattle area. The end of summer brings with i... Mehr
Tuesday, Aug 25 - XNABlog

Creating a cube map texture from 6 bitmap resource
Monday, Oct 26
How do I animation?
Wednesday, Nov 25
Direct3D Test Doubles, Part 1
Monday, Nov 23
ScreentoVector function in DXUT framework positive
Monday, Nov 23
Windows 7 Direct3D9: (ERROR)
Friday, Nov 20
DirectX shader compiler can't unroll it's loops
Saturday, Nov 14
imposters
Wednesday, Nov 18
Need lots of information to vertex shader
Tuesday, Nov 17

IDXGIOutput::WaitForVBlank
Tuesday, Nov 24
Mixing the video with a DX10 app
Tuesday, Nov 24
First Person camera
Thursday, Oct 8
Colors washed out? Alpha blending?
Tuesday, Nov 10
CopySubresourceRegion issue.
Friday, Nov 13
DXGI SwapChain buffer management
Thursday, Nov 12
DirectX 10 2D text issue
Saturday, Sep 1
DepthStencil
Tuesday, Oct 27

Direct3D 11 FXC.exe does not support compute shader compilation?
Tuesday, Nov 24
Horrible HLSL bug with unnamed struct temporaries
Sunday, Nov 22
I can't find the d3dx11 effect framework
Friday, Sep 11
IDXGIKeyedMutex is broken
Monday, Nov 2
ID3DX11Mesh interface?
Saturday, Nov 14
effect files tesselation features
Thursday, Nov 12
d3dcsx.h compilation error
Tuesday, Nov 10
DX11 problem on Vista
Friday, Sep 11

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