The DirectX SDK (June 2010) release includes updates to the Games for Windows technical articles (v1.4.0010). There were no significant changes to the technical requirements, but this release includes a number of minor clarifications and some notes on...

The DirectDraw API has been more or less deprecated for game developers since the release of DirectX 9.0 SDK back in 2002. The last time we shipped samples or documentation on DirectDraw dates back to the DirectX 8.1 SDK . Game developers looking to do...

The Gamefest 2010 Conference US and UK content (presentations and audio where available) is now available on Microsoft downloads, and the website has been updated with a complete index of talks ( US UK ). All of the Project Natal material is of course...

The DirectX SDK (June 2010) release includes the fixes to the DDSWithoutD3DX and DDSWithoutD3DX11 samples I mentioned in earlier posts. The Programmer's Guide for DDS in the Windows DirectX Graphics documentation was also updated to reflect the latest...

Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0 (v7.1) is now available. It includes a free command-line version of the Visual C++ 2010 compiler including support for /analyze static code analysis. This release of the Windows SDK supports Windows 7,...

With the June 2010 DirectX SDK, one of our work items was to try out the various DirectX 11 samples against the NVIDIA DirectX 11 graphics parts (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 / 480 ) now that they are available. For the August 2009 and February 2010 releases...

The June 2010 release of the DirectX SDK is now available on Microsoft Downloads . This release introduces official support for Visual Studio 2010, an updated version of the HLSL compiler with numerous fixes and minor improvements, improved documentation...