Game Programming

[C# Learner]

What's the deal with DirectX from a .NET point of view?

 

[n!]

What's the deal with DirectX from a .NET point of view?

That's not very specific What did you want to know about it? It's very
good, I'm using it to work on a C# learning project (screenshot:
http://www.btinternet.com/~nfactorial/heightpic.jpg).

There's also a newsgroup for managed DirectX
(microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed).

n!

 

[phoenix]

Depends on what you want to do. A lot of things are possible but some aren't
and possibly never will be ( like writing filters )

Yves

 

[Jon Davis]

"The deal is" that DirectX 9.0b has a managed interface available to C# and
C++.NET and VB.NET developers. The managed interface is only managed at the
API level--where you're running your C# (or other managed) code, whereas
it's still native & unmanaged internally, so the end result is that DirectX
9 is pretty fast even in C# and even using Direct3D, etc.

For more info, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/

Jon

 

[n!]

Depends on what you want to do. A lot of things are possible but some
aren't

and possibly never will be ( like writing filters )

What do you mean by 'filters'? It's certainly possible to write image
processing filters using shaders and Direct3D

n!

 

[C# Learner]

That's not very specific What did you want to know about it? It's very
good, I'm using it to work on a C# learning project (screenshot:
http://www.btinternet.com/~nfactorial/heightpic.jpg).

Nice.

Do you know where I might find some sample code on the Web? Samples
of just using DirectX in C#.

 

[Jon Davis]

Download the full SDK. It is chock full of all kinds of excellent C# samples
of nearly everything previously only sampled in C++!

Jon

 

[C# Learner]

Download the full SDK. It is chock full of all kinds of excellent C# samples
of nearly everything previously only sampled in C++!

Jon

Thanks Jon, will do.

 

[Jon Davis]

Be sure to get the Summer 2003 version of the SDK.

 

[Markus Seger]

Do you know where I might find some sample code on the Web? Samples
of just using DirectX in C#.

Check out this fine sample:
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/invasioncsharp.asp?target=invasion|.net

Markus

 

[Lynn Harrison]

Be advised that the summer update version of the SDK wants .NET 1.1 and
VisualStudio 2003 to get the latest functionality.