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...

In today's post, we're going to walk through a simple demonstration of Direct2D. We're not going to cover advanced features, such as interop with GDI/GDI+ or Direct3D. More on that in upcoming posts. Direct2D integrates seamlessly into the familiar...

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...

The March DirectX SDK includes an updated build of Direct2D. Note that this build of Direct2D runs on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista . http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx After the Windows 7 Beta release, we received some customer feedback, and...

Steve Ballmer announced yesterday at CES that the Windows 7 Beta is available, effective immediately, to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers via downloadable-image. The general public will have access to the Windows 7 Beta, on or after Friday. Here...

Visual Studio C++ ISV Development Lab May 4th – 8th, Redmond http://www.microsoft.com/isv/events/vs2010.aspx "Meet with teams dedicated to your success, such as Windows, the Visual Studio debugger team, the Parallel Computing team, CLR, WPF, and...

By popular demand, Microsoft is making managed wrappers for the DirectX APIs in Win7 available. http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/08/13/managed-wrappers-for-the-directx-apis-in-windows-7.aspx

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...

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Tom Mulcahy is a Software Design Engineer on the Direct2D team. He posted a cool sample on his blog (Zemblanity) that demonstrates how to do interop between Direct2D and Direct3D10. Check it out. http://blogs.msdn.com/tmulcahy/archive/2008/10/31/rendering...