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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 monolithic APIs, such as GDI, GDI+ or WPF. This post explores why these components are separated in this
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Today, the Internet Explorer (IE) team announced they will be using DirectWrite and Direct2D for IE9! Channel 9 takes us through to the halls of IE team, and shows a sneak peek at what they have in store for IE9 . Update: check out the IE team blog for
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Just like Direct3D 10, Direct2D was designed to fit hand in glove with an optional debug layer that allows developers to receive rich information about design-time issues they might encounter when using Direct2D. Today, the Direct2D team is happy to announce
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The Platform Update for Windows Vista, which is in mentioned in a previous post , just had its final release! Find out more at the Windows Team Blog .
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Direct2D and GDI are both immediate mode 2D rendering APIs and both offer some degree of hardware acceleration. This tends to cause some confusion – Why are these APIs different? How are they similar? Does Direct2D make GDI faster? How is Direct2D hardware
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Some server applications need to render for scenarios like charting and sending back the generated bitmaps to users connected through web clients. During the planning of Direct2D, we decided to put the support of this scenario as one of our design goals.
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Today on the Windows Team Blog we announced the Platform Update for Windows Vista . This is a set of runtime libraries that makes it easy for developers to target both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I am very pleased to tell you that the Platform Update
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There are many different graphics technologies in Windows, and with Windows 7 we are adding to that collection with new technologies such as Direct2D and DirectWrite. Additionally, technologies such as GDI and GDI+ continue to be used in Windows software
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The latest alpha build of Paint.NET v3.5 is using DirectWrite instead of GDI for the Text tool if you are running Windows 7. More details and a pointer to download Paint.NET v3.5 that uses DirectWrite is available here . Paint.NET is a graphics editing
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In Windows 7 we have invested heavily in building a new 2D drawing API in the DirectX family called Direct2D. This API was developed to fill several holes in our Windows graphics platform. One of the most important things to rectify was the lack of hardware
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Welcome to the DirectX blog! Today Windows supports a number of APIs such as GDI, GDI+, D3D etc. that often provide overlapping graphics functionality. When we started working on Windows 7, one of our goals was to rationalize our graphics APIs and at
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