You can download the first beta of Visual Studio 2005 right now.

As a sports fan, I'm what you might call a “bandwagon jumper” (a cardinal sin for a 'true sports fan' i'm told). I have my favorite teams just like everyone else, but once they've lost, I have no problems with picking a new team to cheer for...

Ah, the good ol' render loop. Everyone's favorite topic of conversation. As I'm sure everyone is aware, the Managed DirectX samples that shipped with the DirectX9 SDK as well as the Summer 2003 update used the 'dreaded' DoEvents() loop I speak so negatively...

I had an email this morning about Managed Direct3D 'breaking' the math functions in the CLR. The person who wrote discovered that this method: public void AssertMath() { double dMin = 0.54797677334988781; double dMax = 4.61816551621179; double dScale...