DirectX

This week on Channel 9, Vlad and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:33] Windows 10 Story, The next generation of Windows: Windows 10 [Terry Myerson], https://insider.windows.com/[01:32] Rewatch It[02:01] Free Upgrade*, Windows as a Service[02:33] Cortana on Windows…

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially in game programming. In this video, we'll show you how to use DirectX to pick a 3D object and manipulate it in universal Windows game apps. Download sample:…

At E3 this year, Microsoft showed off "Fable Legends" for Xbox One, a new take on the RPG franchise's well-loved world of magic, humor and high adventure. Fable Legends' stunning visuals were created using Unreal Engine 4, so, we asked our friends at Lionhead if they'd do a bit of…

Tess Ferrandez, If broken it is, fix it you should, just posted a great series where she, an admitted C# Dev playing in C++, converts her Windows Phone 7 based Bizzy Bee app, Bizzy Bees - A XNA for Windows Phone 7 game building walkthrough, from XNA to C++, DirectX/DirectXTK. Bizzy…

This video blog considers if and when you might want to use middleware to write your game for Windows Store and Windows Phone. This blog breaks down middleware options into two buckets, frameworks or toolkits and game engines.

For nearly 20 years, DirectX has been the platform used by game developers to create the fastest, most visually impressive games on the planet. However, you asked us to do more. You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware. You also asked…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:30] New CodeLens Indicator–Incoming Changes (Mathew Aniyan)[01:51] Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 available (Brian Harry)[02:31] Visual Studio Online updates - Feb 28 (Jamie Cool)[03:13] DirectX Not…

In this video blog we talk about two powerful but overlooked features of Visual Studio 2013 that can help to speed up the DirectX development process on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. We will take a look at the Visual Studio 3D asset viewer and modify our 3D model directly in the viewer. We…

Today's post is a reminder about all the available C++ Kinect for Windows SDK samples and examples... Kinect for Windows C++ SamplesKinect for Windows enables developers like you to create applications that allow users to interact naturally with the computer by gesturing and…

In today's Windows Wednesday project, we're highlighting a project from Thomas Petchel (and team) that is showing off how you can use DirectX, XAML and C++ to build a cool Windows Store App... Weathr (C++, DirectX, and XAML) Weathr is a 3D weather app for Windows 8.1 using…