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Windows Developer Center – Developing Games
Windows Developer Center – Developing Games
The DirectX Developer Center will soon become part of the Windows Development Center. Over the next few months, expect most of the... more
GDC 2012 Presentations Now Available
GDC 2012 Presentations Now Available
Presentations from the Microsoft Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference 2012 have been posted to the Microsoft Download ... more
Where is the DirectX SDK?
Where is the DirectX SDK?
As of the Windows 8 Developer Preview, the DirectX SDK is now part of the Windows SDK. For more details on the transition, visit t... more

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Learning XAudio2
With the inclusion of XAudio2 in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, there's been renewed interest in learning how to use this API. The documentation on M... more
Tuesday, May 15 Chuck Walbourn - MSFT
HLSL, FXC, and D3DCompile
With the retirement of D3DX (See “Where is the DirectX SDK?”), there is some confusion about how applications access the High-Level Shader... more
Monday, May 7 Chuck Walbourn - MSFT
Direct3D 11 Textures and Block Compression
Creating and loading texturesThere are a number of previous posts on the state of .DDS files which is the container format for Direct3D resources (se... more
Friday, May 4 Chuck Walbourn - MSFT