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Effects for Direct3D 11 Update
The Effects 11 library (FX11) was made available as shared-source in the DirectX SDK. Previous versions of the Effects library were part of D3DX (FX9) or built into the OS (FX10). With the DirectX SDK...
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BUILD 2012 Conference
The BUILD 2012 conference includes a number of game developer related presentations which are available on Channel 9. Windows Store appsDesigning games for Windows 8Core technologies for Windows 8...
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DirectXTex Update
The DirectX Texture library (aka DirectXTex) for Direct3D 11 (originally released on this blog and made an official CodePlex project) has continued to improve. It’s been a busy month of work, but with...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
An update to Visual Studio 2012 is now available for download. For full details, see Somasegar's blog.This update includes a fix to a regression that was introduced in Update 2 when using ATL on...
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BUILD 2013 Conference
There are a number of sessions happening at the BUILD conference this week related to DirectX, games, and C++ development on Windows. The presentations are available on Channel 9. DirectX 11.2What's...
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Where is the DirectX SDK (2013 Edition)?
At BUILD 2013 last week, Microsoft released the Windows 8.1 Preview, Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and the Windows SDK for Windows 8.1 Preview (included in the VS 2013 Preview).As with the Windows 8.0...
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DirectXTex and Effects 11 Update
DirectXTexIt has been a busy summer which has resulted in "version 1.2" of the DirectXTex texture processing library. The focus of this release has been on improving Block Compression support. The...
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Living without D3DX
Over the past few years, I've been working on a number of projects in part motivated by the need to replace legacy D3DX functionality. As noted on MSDN, all versions of D3DX are deprecated and are not...
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Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate
The Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is now available. The VC 2013 RC Redistribution packages are also available (x86, x64, ARM), as well as the Remote Debugging Tools (x86, x64).VS 2013 RC...
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Manifest Madness
This blog post discusses Application Manifest elements for use in Win32 desktop applications. This is not about the App package manifest (aka AppX) used for Windows Store apps for Windows 8.x.User...
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DXUT for Win32 Desktop Update
With the deprecation of the DirectX SDK (see Where is the DirectX SDK? and Where is the DirectX SDK (2013 Edition)?), there’s been a lot of guidance both on this blog and on MSDN on moving to newer,...
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DirectX SDK Samples Catalog
Microsoft has moved away from providing samples in SDKs for a number of reasons, but primarily to reduce the size of the standalone downloads and to minimize the size of the SDKs when included in other...
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A Brief History of Windows SDKs
A common source of confusion for Windows development is the Windows SDK naming scheme. For example: Can someone use the "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5" to target Windows...
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Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 SDK RTM are now available
Visual Studio 2013 RTM is now available. The VS 2013 RTM Redistribution packages are also available (x86, x64, ARM), as well as the Remote Debugging Tools (x86, x64, ARM). For more information, see the...
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DirectXMath 3.06
DirectXMath version 3.06 is included in the release of VS 2013. You can use this with VS 2012 or VS 2010 as well via the standalone Windows 8.1 SDK.The high-level What's New is covered on MSDN, but...
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CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh
Now that VS 2013 has shipped, Windows 8.1 SDK is finished, and Windows 8.1 has hit GA--see this post for details--, I've made new releases of my CodePlex projects. Here is a summary of the changes...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
An update to Visual Studio 2012 is now available for download. VS 2012 Update 4 was originally mentioned on Brian Harry's blog, and has now been officially released.See KB 2872520.Compiler and CRTVS...
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DirectX Tool Kit for Audio
The December 2013 release of DirectXTK is now available on CodePlex, and includes a C++ implementation of the XNA Game Studio's low-level audio framework using XAudio2 and X3DAudio.AudioEngine - This...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
An update to Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download.For more details see Visual Studio Team Blog, Brian Harry’s blog, and Somasegar’s blog.Official KB article 2911573Note: The version of...
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The Windows 10 SDK for the November 2015 update of Windows 10 (build 10586) is now available. It can be installed via an optional install with VS 2015 Update 1 or as a standalone installer. This...
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