In order to consolidate a lot of the information from various blogs, we decided to create a common DirectX blog. You can find it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/DirectX/ This is where I'll be posting upcoming information about Direct2D. I may link from this blog, but assume that the DirectX blog is...

ChartDemo.wmv -- Although D2D can render thousands (the exact amount depends on the video hardware that's used, quality of drivers, amount of memory, etc) of anti-aliased primitives per second, there are some cases where even greater performance is required. ChartDemo demonstrates an alternative approach...

One of the challenging aspects of working on a product development team is that you often have to keep the subject of your work secret for various reasons. I’m a Dev Lead in the Windows Desktop Graphics organization, and my team has been working quietly for the past year on an exciting new graphics technology...