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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... more

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... more

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... more

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New DirectX Whitepapers and Samples Published for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Surface Sharing Support for Windows Graphics Applications Whitepaper and Samples A whitepaper and two samples were published to showcas... more
Wednesday, Jan 6 by maryluo

Direct2D and DirectWrite
One of the more interesting aspects of Direct2D is that it cooperates with another API, DirectWrite in order to handle text. This is unlike other mono... more
Friday, Dec 18 by Mark Lawrence

Animated 2D Graphics for UI, Games, and Demos
Introduction In this post, I present a sample animation framework that demonstrates how Direct2D and DirectWrite can be used in a wide variety... more
Saturday, Dec 12 by Aisha Ayoub

Creators Club Communiqué 40
Greetings, Creators! At last we’ve reached the shortest month of the year! This month will fly by not only because it is shorter than the rest, but t... more
Friday, Feb 5 by XNABlog

Creators Club Communiqué 39
Greetings to everyone! This week, we decided to round up different articles from all around the internet that have covered various Xbox LIVE Indie G... more
Friday, Jan 29 by XNABlog

Creators Club Communiqué 38
This week we launched the first installment of our new Developer Talk Series on XNA Creators Club Online! The magnificent Shawn Hargreaves presented “... more
Friday, Jan 22 by XNABlog

3D Texture Filtering
Wednesday, Feb 10
Where is official docs for effect parameter semantics like WORLDVIEWPROJECTION ?
Sunday, Feb 7
Bitmap Fonts in DirectX
Monday, Feb 8
Can't win with 2D
Sunday, Feb 7
D3DXFONT::GetGlyphData problem
Saturday, Feb 6
HLSL pass by name?
Thursday, Jan 21
[c++]about ShadowMap in SDK, some question
Saturday, Feb 6
Getting World Space From Screen Space?
Wednesday, Feb 3

Help with Input_Element_Description
Wednesday, Feb 10
Help to a new guy? D3D10 program crash at runtime
Monday, Feb 1
Fully Transparent Fullscreen Windows in D3d10
Tuesday, Feb 9
Problems copying 2D textures to depth slices of a 3D Texture
Saturday, Feb 6
DirectX HLSL
Tuesday, Feb 9
UpdateSubresource() and resource "contention" on textures
Friday, Feb 5
Drawing Primitives
Tuesday, Feb 2
Can't access system value semantics.
Saturday, Jan 30

fxc is crasharoni on cs_5_0 matrix mul with double precision
Thursday, Oct 1
volatile groupshared ?
Tuesday, Feb 9
Accessing SV_TessFactor values
Friday, Feb 5
Memory bandwidth performance degradation in non-divergent dynamic loops
Monday, Feb 8
D3D11 and multithreading
Monday, Feb 8
Geometry shader instancing
Sunday, Feb 7
Tessellation + geometry shader awesomeness
Sunday, Feb 7
DX11 only for C#?
Monday, Jun 29

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