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Musings on Windows, Graphics, and Technology
Managed Wrappers for DirectX APIs in Win7
By popular demand, Microsoft is making managed wrappers for the DirectX APIs in Win7 available....
Date: 08/25/2009
New Direct2D Article by Kenny Kerr in June 2009 MSDN Magazine
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd861344.aspx
Date: 06/05/2009
DirectX Blog is Live
In order to consolidate a lot of the information from various blogs, we decided to create a common...
Date: 04/21/2009
Updated Direct2D in March DirectX SDK
The March DirectX SDK includes an updated build of Direct2D. Note that this build of Direct2D runs...
Date: 03/24/2009
Upcoming Event: Visual Studio 2010 C++ ISV Development Laboratory
Visual Studio C++ ISV Development LabMay 4th – 8th, Redmond...
Date: 03/03/2009
Windows 7 Beta
Steve Ballmer announced yesterday at CES that the Windows 7 Beta is available, effective...
Date: 01/08/2009
Direct2D Sample Videos
ChartDemo.wmv -- Although D2D can render thousands (the exact amount depends on the video hardware...
Date: 11/13/2008
Direct2D Interop with Direct3D10
Tom Mulcahy is a Software Design Engineer on the Direct2D team. He posted a cool sample on his blog...
Date: 11/12/2008
Using Direct2D
In today's post, we're going to walk through a simple demonstration of Direct2D. We're not going to...
Date: 11/01/2008
Introducing the Microsoft Direct2D API
One of the challenging aspects of working on a product development team is that you often have to...
Date: 10/29/2008