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Microsoft DirectX is a collection of industry-leading graphics technologies designed to deliver the most advanced, stable, and visually impressive graphics experience on Microsoft platforms. DirectX is comprised of best-in-breed runtime technologies, developer tools, graphics programming interfaces and languages. The DirectX standard is supported by a wide variety of consumer and workstation-class graphics software and hardware solutions.

November 2008 DirectX SDK Now Available

The November 2008 DirectX SDK download contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge, media-rich, interactive applications. It includes runtimes, headers and libraries, samples, documentation, utilities, and support for C++ development. The November SDK also includes the technical preview for Direct3D 11.

GDC 2008 Presentations Now Available

The presentations from the GDC 2008 developers conference, including audio recordings where possible, are now available on the Presentations page.

Gamefest 2007 Slides

We are delighted to now offer you slides and audio recordings from the Gamefest 2007 Conference. Follow the headline link for more details.

DirectX for Everyone

For Business, Enterprise, and IT Pro

Learn more about what business, enterprise, and IT applications are doing with DirectX.

For Consumer Application Developers

Find out more about what consumer application developers are doing with DirectX.

For Gamers

For the latest news on DirectX 10 games and downloads; check out what we have to offer!

For Game Developers

XNA is an industry leading solution for game developers offering: software, services, resources, and communities.

For Workstation Professionals

For 3D animation, workstation and CAD engineering applications.

Direct3D 10 Forum

How to create generic Input Layout?
Hi All, I have a program(executable) which uses particular shader for drawing. This executable takes shader file name as a parameter. This program  ... more
How to make D3D NOT take up the whole Form
I am initializing my D3D device as a child of a Form (Duh). It by default take up the whole form. I would like designate a section of the Form for D3D... more
help wanted:Directx 10 problem.
hello everyone..i have a computer which has the following configurations:  intel core 2 duo 2.2 ghz 1gb ram 160 gb hard disk nvidia 7200gs graphi... more
I'm in trouble with DXUT
I'm using Windows server 2008 enterprise 64 bit and Visual Studio 2008. I have installed DirextX SDK(June 2008). I try to run the tutorial of Dire... more
Line
Hi, Ive been reading over some of the Dx9 resources and checked the ID3DXLine function, but its support seems to have dropped in d3d 10, I think anywa... more

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