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by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

CPS1.NET: A C# Based CPS1 (MAME) Emulator

by shunninghuang

CPS1 emulator, ROM hacking

H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

Blowing the Doors Off 3D Math: Part I - Matrix Multiplication

by CMalcheski

Thinking outside the box can result in critical performance gains

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Machine Learning for C++ developers - the hard way: DirectML

by Michael Chourdakis

An introduction to machine learning with working C++ code that trains a linear regression model.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

RGFW | Singler-Header Lightweight Framework for Basic Window and Graphics Context Handling (like GLFW)

by ColleagueRiley

A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

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DirectX

.NET Implementation of an Ogg Vorbis Player

4 Apr 2007 by Perry Marchant

An article on decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files in .NET.

C++

VC7.1

WinXP

2D Blits in DirectX 9

19 Apr 2005 by Karel Donk

Describes how to do 2D Blits in DirectX 9 with direct surface access between various surface formats (using color conversion).

3D Basics Using XNA for Windows 8 Store Apps and Windows Phone Apps

27 Feb 2013 by MetaMapper (Andy Powell)

How to program hardware accelerated 3D graphics for Windows 8 Store apps and Windows Phone apps using XNA.

3D Interval KD-Tree

21 May 2009 by Tommi Laukkanen

A KD-Tree which stores axis aligned boxes.

3D Terrain Visualisation in Managed DirectX 9 and C#

18 Sep 2005 by Igor Stjepanovic

In this project I demonstrate how to write a simple 3D rendering application in a relatively small amount of code.

A 3D RPG Based on Ogre and ODE

18 Apr 2013 by lxdfigo

A 3D Game Based on Ogre, ODE, 3D Max, CEGUI and so on

A 3D-Enabled View Base Class for SDI Direct3D Development

6 Feb 2005 by Bob Ciora

Definition of the CDSSD3DView8 class, a CView-derived class to facilitate Direct3D development with SDI.

A Beautiful Oscilloscope Based on DirectX

1 Nov 2009 by Ali Tavakol

Fast, real, and easy to connect to your application.

A beginning DirectX application using MFC.

29 Mar 2004 by BlackDice

Lets user create and manipulate 3D DirectX models.

A Brief Tutorial On How To Develop DirectShow Source Filter For Beginners

22 Feb 2010 by Aric Wang

The article will give you an idea on how to design a source filter.The source filter creates samples and outputs it from its output pin.

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

8 May 2008 by Davidwu

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

A CStatic derived class using Direct3D Retained Mode

2 Apr 2001 by Jason Troitsky

A CStatic derived class that can be dropped into an application to provide the ability to load and display 3D objects

A DirectX Game: Quadrino

16 Oct 2008 by Paul M Watt

An interpretation of a popular falling block game implemented with DirectX that attempts to avoid any copyright infringement.

A DirectX Wrapper

18 Jul 2003 by arussell

A DirectX Wrapper

A Flexible Direct2D Pianoroll for Your Music Apps

9 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Create music easily

A New Perspective on Viewing

6 Oct 2009 by John Hilton

Simple yet comprehensive viewing code for OpenGL and Direct3D.

A Powerful Spectrum Analyzer Based on DirectX

7 Nov 2009 by Ali Tavakol

Fast, beautiful, real and easy to connect to your application

A Primer of DirectX Basics and the DirectX3D API

11 Dec 2010 by logicchild

An article that desribes some essentials to help learn the DirectX technology.

A Remote Windows Mobile Screen Grabber

11 Feb 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

Capture your Windows Mobile device screen via ActiveSync or WMDC.

A Simple and Powerful Game Engine

23 Jul 2007 by S Keller

This article talks about a simple and powerful game engine to make game programming simpler

A simple console audio input device reader

30 Nov 2008 by WajihUllahBaig

How to read audio input devices in DirectX.

A simple console DirectShow player

12 Dec 2008 by Sumi, Eo, WajihUllahBaig

How DirectShow can be used to play a video in console mode.

A Simple Snake Game: Engerek

9 Feb 2011 by Okan Kocyigit

A simple snake game controllable both by joystick and keyboard, graphics using C#, joystick control using Directx

A Simulation of a Canadian F-86 Fighter Jet in Windows Forms using Visual C++ 2005

29 May 2010 by Software_Developer

A Simulation of a Canadian F-86 fighter jet in Windows Forms using Visual C++ 2005

A wrapper class for the DirectSound API

21 Mar 2001 by Zhaohui Xing (Joey)

This article focuses on giving an example of using the DirectX API in PC game software development by using a DirectSound wrapper class

Adaptive Volumetric Shadow Maps for Android Using OpenGL ES 3.1

1 Dec 2015 by Android on Intel

As a follow-up to Adaptive Volumetric Shadow Maps for DirectX 11, we present a port of the same algorithm adapted for Android devices that support OpenGL ES 3.1 and the GL_INTEL_fragment_shader_ordering OpenGL extension.

Android

DirectX

OpenGL

Adventures In Abattoirville

31 Jul 2001 by Xavier John

A Maze based game.

An app that reads out text for you

17 Jun 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I would explain the steps to create a simple WPF application that can read out text for you; using .NET framework's Speech API and Installed voices.

An Easy Video-processing Framework by Grabbing Frames as Bitmaps Using DirectShow

5 Mar 2008 by Mingliang Zhu

An article showing how to easily but effectively extract all frames from a video as bitmaps

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

20 Jan 2015 by Android on Intel

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

Asynchronous Progress Using Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback in C#

3 Dec 2010 by CRayGoodwin

Custom windows control that mimics Windows 7 diming & asynchronous aero progress animation

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 1

11 Feb 2009 by WajihUllahBaig

A console program that captures audio but does not save it.

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 2

10 Feb 2009 by WajihUllahBaig

A console program that captures audio and saves it.

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 3

10 Feb 2009 by WajihUllahBaig

A console program that captures audio and saves it with simultaneous preview.

Audio File Saving for the DirectX.Capture Class Library

23 Feb 2008 by almere109

Enhancements to the DirectX.Capture class for capturing audio to WMA files.

AViD

3 Mar 2009 by Andrew Rissing

An application for visualizing common dendrimer models

Axiom

8 Dec 2007 by chazza_10101

How to setup an Axiom application

Basic Directx Transformation with VB.NET

15 Mar 2011 by Abudreas

Applying simple world transformation in 2D world using DirectX and VB.NET

Basic Video Capture and VMR9

9 Apr 2009 by WajihUllahBaig

Capturing video from webcam and VMR9 windowless rendering with DirectShow.

Beginning Direct3D

8 Mar 2004 by Vahid Kazemi

Start Direct3D programming and create a window

Beginning Direct3D 10

10 Apr 2008 by Vahid Kazemi

Create your first application using Direct3D 10.

Believable physics in C#

29 Dec 2003 by Mårten R

How to create believable physics using C#.

Blowing the Doors Off 3D Math: Part I - Matrix Multiplication

4 Oct 2017 by CMalcheski

Thinking outside the box can result in critical performance gains

DirectX

graphics

game

Box2D and Direct2D

10 Oct 2013 by arussell

Box2D DebugDraw Implemented using DirectX 2D and win32

Brick by Brick: Building a Better Game with LEGO Minifigures Online

30 Oct 2015 by Android on Intel

The current generation of Intel® graphics hardware extends Intel’s leadership in enabling innovation across the industry, including being fully ready for DirectX 12 and driving the adoption of advanced features by next-generation games.

Bring Your Existing Application to the Microsoft Store

21 Jul 2019 by Shao Voon Wong

Bring your existing WPF and Winform application to the Microsoft Store

Build Flappy Bird 3000 using the Ring programming language

12 Oct 2016 by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Getting started with 2D games development and build the Flappy Bird 3000 game using the Ring programming language.

C# MP3 Sound Capturing/Recording Component

20 Oct 2009 by Lukasz Kwiecinski, Istrib

A .NET component capturing WAVE or MP3 sound from a sound card. LAME used for MP3 compression.

C# Synth Toolkit - Part I

17 Aug 2007 by Leslie Sanford

A toolkit for creating software synthesizers with C# and Managed DirectX.

C# Synth Toolkit - Part II

17 Aug 2007 by Leslie Sanford

Demonstrates how to create a simple synthesizer using the C# Synth Toolkit

Cam Alarm 2.0 - Alarm system run from a web camera

16 Jun 2010 by John Underhill

Simple alarm system for those on a budget..

Camera Vision - video surveillance on C#

9 Oct 2006 by Andrew Kirillov

A C# video surveillance application, which allows monitoring several IP cameras simultaneously.

Camera_Net Library

28 Apr 2022 by free5lot

Camera_Net is a FLOSS library for using video-cameras and video-inputs in .NET projects easily

Capture image from a streaming URL using different ISampleGrabber modes

12 Oct 2009 by R@jeev K R

This articles shows how to capture an image from a streaming URL using different ISampleGrabber modes.

Capture Live Video from various Video Devices.

20 May 2004 by Dillip Kumar Kara

LiveVideo is an application to capture live video from various video capture devices.

Capture Sample with DirectX and .NET

10 Aug 2003 by Blas5

A solution to capture video and frames simultaneously

Capturing audio to a WAV file from an MPEG movie file, using DirectShow

29 Dec 2004 by Samiullah Khan

This article describes the process of storing the audio data of a movie file (.mpeg, .mpg, .avi and .dat) on the hard disk in a WAV file using DirectShow filters.

Change Video Signal Format with DirectX library

23 Feb 2005 by hpAng

An enhancement for the DirectX video stream and frame capture sample.

cHitChecker - Solving the hit testing problem in game development

4 Jun 2002 by Mauricio Ritter

This article show the creation of a simple HitChecking class that allow you to check the if an object in the plane has been hit. It uses the GDI API, implementing some of the region functions.

Code optimization tutorial - Part 3

30 Jul 2012 by Razvan Aguridan

Beginner optimization tutorial

Comparing GPU Resource Update Strategies in Diligent Engine

11 Sep 2018 by EgorYusov

This article describes several strategies to update GPU resources in Diligent Engine (a modern low-level graphic library) as well as important internal details and performance implications related to each method.

Conv3ds.exe Utility Helper

14 Jun 2004 by BlackDice

A front-end for Microsoft's Conv3ds utility.

CPS1.NET: A C# Based CPS1 (MAME) Emulator

3 Apr 2021 by shunninghuang

CPS1 emulator, ROM hacking

Create games with the AllegNet library for .NET 2.0

9 Dec 2005 by Allegnet

An article on how to use the AllegNet library to write games with managed languages for the .NET 2.0 framework.

Creating a Game Design for the Future

9 Feb 2006 by Davin Eastley

Want to learn about the current game industry and how to design a formula for a great game? Come here for ideas on formulating your strategy.

Creating a HUD In Direct3D / C#: Part 1 - Text

22 May 2006 by James Gupta

Teaches you how to create a HUD in Direct3D / C# - this first part goes through the basics of creating and rendering text

CustomUI: C# Quickstart Guide

31 Jul 2005 by Vorn Mom

A quick guide to the C# CustomUI sample from the DirectX SDK.

D3dHost - MDX and WPF interoperability

13 Nov 2012 by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can render an interoperable MDX (Managed DirectX) scene, inside a WPF window.

D3dScenePresenter - How to present and manipulate a 3D scene using MDX

15 Feb 2013 by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can present a 3D scene and, perform common operations (zoom, rotate, move, zoom to specific region, adjust the camera to view the whole of the scene, and pick a 3D shape on a specific region on the rendered surface) on it, using Managed DirectX.

WPF

DirectX

Dev

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

24 Jul 2016 by Jose A Pascoa

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

Developing 3D Games for Windows* 8 with C++ and Microsoft DirectX*

12 Sep 2014 by Bruno Sonnino

In this article, I show you how to develop a soccer penalties shootout game.

Developing MIDI applications with DirectMusic

11 Apr 2008 by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

A wrapper class library for the DirectMusic MIDI.

Diligent Engine: A Modern Cross-Platform Low-Level Graphics Library

18 Aug 2023 by EgorYusov

This article introduces Diligent Engine, a modern cross-platform graphics API abstraction library and rendering framework

Direct X and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part II

14 Jun 2017 by CMalcheski

Part II - Laying the Foundation for the Migration to Assembly

Direct2D: Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 Plotting

10 May 2009 by Michael Chourdakis

Draw your vectors using a new, ActiveX based hardware accelerated interface.

Direct3D Rendering Cookbook

28 Apr 2014 by Bartlomiej Filipek

Short review of a very interesting book about DirectX 11 using C#

.NET

Windows

DirectX

DirectDraw extension

27 Nov 1999 by Stephane Rodriguez

A DirectDraw Framework made of template classes

DirectShow - Fine TV Tuning Using IKsPropertySet.

20 Aug 2004 by Liaqat Fayyaz

How to fine tune a TV channel in DirectShow / How to set custom video frequencies of TV tuner devices?

DirectShow Filters (For Beginners)

23 Sep 2007 by tanvon malik

DirectShow filters are described in an easy to understand way.

DirectX

Dev

DirectShow Filters - What They Are

16 Sep 2006 by tanvon malik

This article is about DirectShow filters and how to create them

DirectShow Filters Development Part 1: Video Rendering with Direct2D

31 Jan 2011 by Roman Ginzburg

This article is about DirectShow development in general and filters development in detail.

DirectShow Filters Development Part 2: Live Source Filter

15 Mar 2011 by Roman Ginzburg

A generic source filter which exposes an interface for pushing downstream RGB samples of predefined size and frame rate, and can be used for any custom frame input scenario.

C++

DirectX

Dev

DirectShow Filters Development Part 3: Transform Filters

15 Mar 2011 by Roman Ginzburg

A text overlay filter and a JPEG/JPEG2000 encoder using transform filters.

DirectShow Source Filter for Painting on DC