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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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!! Watch !! Indianapolis Colts vs Cleveland Browns Live Stream

24 Aug 2013 by Live Stream

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Erlang

SAP

DirectX

stream

streaming

string

.NET Implementation of an Ogg Vorbis Player

4 Apr 2007 by Perry Marchant

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

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).

32-bit depth icons become visible/invisible while switching "extended"/”non-extended” multiple displays mode in windows7

28 Jan 2020 by Tatyana Entin

32-bit depth Icons become invisible while connecting second display and choosing "Control Panel\Display\Change Display Settings\Multiple displays: extend these displays" setting. I draw icons in my MFC\C++\ATL Windows application using ::DrawIconEx( hDC, x, y, hIcon,W,H,NULL,NULL, DI_NORMAL)...

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Windows

DirectX

32-bit depth icons become visible/invisible while switching "extended"/”non-extended” multiple displays mode in windows7

28 Jan 2020 by Rick York

This is a real shot in the dark here but check the icons and see what their alpha channel looks like. If it is completely black they might be interpreted as being fully transparent.

C++

Windows

DirectX

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.

3D Viewer : DirectX or OpenGL

28 May 2012 by KCorazza

Hi to all,I've to start a new windows project in C# where it is necessary to view 3D data in different way. I don't know which technology use: OpenGL or DirectX ?Which technology offer the best performance ?Do you know OpenGL and DirectX wrapper that allow the programming life more...

DirectX

OpenGL

971029 - directx vs ffmpeg

18 Jan 2019 by ilostmyid2

hi i'm in the process of deciding how to decode received video frames, based on the following: 1. platform is Windows. 2. frames are encoded in H264 or H265. 3. GPU should be used as much 4. certainly we prefer less coding and simplest code. we just need to decode and show the result on screen....

DirectX

ffmpeg

971029 - directx vs ffmpeg

18 Jan 2019 by RickZeeland

Maybe the easiest way is to use LibVLC (which use ffmpeg too), see example here: .net - How to streaming video via VLC api in C# - Stack Overflow[^]

DirectX

ffmpeg

[ERROR] unhandled exception has occured in your application..

17 Apr 2017 by Atakutabrak

I build project with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and get this Error "Unhandled exception has occured in your application.." when play video in project, problem solve with disable LoaderLock in VS2010 toolbar Debug, Exceptions.. , Managed Debugging Assistants, Uncheck LoaderLock but after I...

[ERROR] unhandled exception has occured in your application..

11 Apr 2017 by User 4180254

Put the code in TRY-CATCH to capture actual error you need to address.. try { videoFile = new AudioVideoPlayback.Video(file) videoFile.Owner = pnlVideo VideoFile.Play() } catch(Exception ex) { // you can get exception information here.. }

[ERROR] unhandled exception has occured in your application..

17 Apr 2017 by Jochen Arndt

Your complete approach is wrong. Instead of disabling the exception you should find the cause and fix that. Ignoring the execption may lead to a deadlock: loaderLock MDA[^]: Effect on the Runtime Typically, several threads inside the process will deadlock. One of those threads is likely to be...

[Solved] Scaling ID3D10Texture2D in Direct3D 10

28 Apr 2011 by Kozlov_Sergey

How can i scale (stretch) ID3D10Texture2D in Direct3D 10?

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DirectX

[Solved] Scaling ID3D10Texture2D in Direct3D 10

25 Apr 2011 by Himansu sekhar bal

http://msdn.mi...

C++

DirectX

[Solved] Scaling ID3D10Texture2D in Direct3D 10

28 Apr 2011 by Kozlov_Sergey

Here is the function HLSL shader from c++ funtion[^]

C++

DirectX

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 managed FreeFrame host

6 Feb 2013 by Jarno Burger

A managed wrapper around FreeFrame, to give your video frames some cool effects

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 problem about directX texture.

30 Mar 2013 by liaoyuandeyehuo

LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 g_pSurface;...

DirectX

Texture2D

Bitmap

A problem about directX texture.

30 Mar 2013 by Maxim Kartavenkov

1. GetFrontBufferData does not recommended to use as it slow.2. You are getting screen into system memory and what for you copy it back to the texture?3. You copy via Locking which is not good.To solve your issues see:This API D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface usd to copy from one surface to...

DirectX

Texture2D

Bitmap

A really weird directx(direct3d) problem

7 Feb 2013 by Aweiwei_

the purpose is to create a mesh of teapot,get the vertices & index from it,and draw from the vertices and index ID3DXMesh *Teapot; D3DXCreateTeapot(dev,&Teapot,NULL); Teapot->DrawSubset(0); dev->Clear(0, 0, D3DCLEAR_TARGET | D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, 0xffffffff, 1.0f,...

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DirectX

A really weird directx(direct3d) problem

7 Feb 2013 by Matthew Faithfull

My guess would be that's because there's nothing in the triange list without the call to DrawSubset(0) Look at the documentation for DrawSubset to see why you would need to call it.To me it implies in a Microsoft, 'we said it even though we didn't really say it' way that DrawSubset turns a...

C++

DirectX

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

about directx supports sd audio

21 Mar 2010 by yingkou

I want to know whether directx support to play sd audio file?for details: DirectSound has a interface of IBaseFilter that support to play WMA file(by CLSID_CAsfAcmHandlerObject)、support to play Wave file(by CLSID_WAVEParser)，then support to play sd audio file(by what???)

DirectX

About Open Broadcaster,how does it work?

9 Apr 2013 by liaoyuandeyehuo

The open boradcaster software is so powerful.I'm curious about how to get a D3D9 game's backbuffer.I was failed to read the source code because it is too complicated for me.Could you give me some suggestions or tell me how to realize it.Thank you!

About Wmp(Windows Media Play) Plug-in

4 Apr 2010 by dxFrety

Hi!I want to write a plug-in for Windows Media Player 11 to capture screenshots but I find it is really difficult for me. Is there someonewho can give me any suggestion?------------(My English is so-so, there may be some mistakes in my question, I'm so sorry! If you want to help me...

About Wmp(Windows Media Play) Plug-in

3 Apr 2010 by Rod Kemp

To learn how to create plug-ins for Windows Media Player, see the Windows Media Player SDK[^].This should outline what you can and can't do with a plug-in in WMP.

About Wmp(Windows Media Play) Plug-in

3 Apr 2010 by dxFrety

To Rod Kemp:What I mean is Not Only using Wmp SDK But Also others like DirectX SDK andWindows Media Format SDK.

About Wmp(Windows Media Play) Plug-in

4 Apr 2010 by Rod Kemp

To find information regarding the DirectX SDK and Windows Media Format SDK a quick Google (or Bing) search finds the MSDN pages for them which also contain sample code;Windows Media Format 11 SDK[^]DirectX Developer Center[^]Also a quick search of this site found;Various methods for...

accessing a transformed texture's pixel data

29 Jun 2011 by Member 8027520

Hello everyoneHow do i access the TRANSFORMED pixel data for a texture, after it has been transformed by D3DXMatrixTransformation2D() and texture->SetTransform()?I'm trying to do 2D pixel perfect collision detection and it's impossible if you can only access the untransformed pixel data...

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DirectX

accessing a transformed texture's pixel data

15 Jul 2011 by KarstenK

paint it on a memory dc and do GetPixel()

C++

DirectX

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

Add video to my C# application

29 Oct 2012 by Sharath2790

I've downloaded DirectX on My PC and I've installed it But unable add reference to my project. I need to embed a video into my application. Thank you!

Add video to my C# application

30 Oct 2012 by ridoy

You not mentioned what type of application you need to embed it,here's some for you..http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/42801-How-Play-Videos-C-NET-WinForm.aspx[^]http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/111181-adding-video-to-an-application/[^]

Add video to my C# application

30 Oct 2012 by Thomas Daniels

You don't need to use DirectX. You can add a Windows Media Player control[^].If you do that, you don't need to add a reference to the DirectX library.

Add video to my C# application

1 Nov 2012 by Sharath2790

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/111181-adding-video-to-an-application/[^]

Add Watermark to Capture stream

5 Feb 2011 by ifithegr8

I am using DirectX.Capture and DirectShow. Using existing project DirectX.Capture Class Library[^].I want to add water mark in it. Is it possible? If yes, how?

DirectX

directshow

Add Watermark to Capture stream

5 Feb 2011 by Abhinav S

As per these[^] discussions this may be possible. Follow the links in that discussion and you might get somewhere.

DirectX

directshow

Adventures In Abattoirville

31 Jul 2001 by Xavier John

A Maze based game.

Alpha to coverage for distance object

25 Jul 2012 by pranav_30

HI I am working on forest rendering engine. (3D model is of .X format)i am using alpha to coverage for leaf plane renderingHR(gd3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ALPHATESTENABLE, true)); HR(gd3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ALPHAREF, 50));HR(gd3dDevice->...

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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

An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Direct3DXException' occurred in Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.dll

21 Jun 2012 by sidali.kadi

hi allim trying to display 3d objectusing direct x and i get this error "An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Direct3DXException' occurred in Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.dll" with additional information "error application"in this methode:public void drawMesh(Object3D...

DirectX

An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Direct3DXException' occurred in Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.dll

24 Jun 2012 by sidali.kadi

salam guysi found the solution.the probleme was that i forgot to add those methodes:device.beginSecene();device.endScene();device.Present(); that's all.have a nice day

DirectX

Analyzing Text With DirectWrite in .NET Using SharpDX

20 Nov 2014 by Gregory Morse

Analyzing Text With DirectWrite in .NET Using SharpDX

Android's Graphics Buffer Management System (Part II: BufferQueue)

13 May 2015 by Neta777

In this post, I'll describe graphics buffers flows in Android, with special attention to class BufferQueue which plays a central role in graphics buffer management.

C++

Windows

DirectX

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.

Audio/Video sync slip from track

6 Sep 2011 by nujKhanna

Hi all,I am rendering a video in managed DirectX, using vmr9 and custom allocator.Problem is audio/video are not in synchronization. I had also checked file in other players with no problem.My findings: when i seek the position backward or forward solve the problem.Hack that i found...

.NET4

DirectX

directshow

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

BadImageFormatException 0x800700C1

30 Jul 2010 by Steven Foxton

Hi Everyone.Im building an project using Visual studio 2008 express c#. Basically im trying to catch audio via directsound on Window 7 x64 using the below code but it is giving me the error:BadImageFormatException is not a valid Win32 application. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700C1)Can...

DirectX

BadImageFormatException 0x800700C1

11 Aug 2010 by Thomas Krojer

You said so, but did you set the "Target Platform" property in the property page or the Combobox on the mainform of the ide?

DirectX

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.

batching draw calls for performance optimization

16 Jul 2012 by pranav_30

i am using directx9 & i have created tree.x (3D model of Tree) having 5 material..and a orientation list which contains orientation data such as 3dvector for position.now suppose my orientation list contain 1000 of orientation so i am able to draw 1000 of trees.i had already...

DirectX

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#.

bezier curve in directx

12 Oct 2010 by vithalgk

Hi,Please give me if you have any sample directx example code which does drawing of bezier curve(waveform drawing).ThanksVithal

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DirectX

bezier curve in directx

12 Oct 2010 by Richard MacCutchan

Try at least doing some basic research for yourself before posting questions. Here[^] is a list of DirectX links that could help you.

C++

DirectX

bezier curve in directx

12 Oct 2010 by Sauro Viti

You have a sample about doing it just inside the DirectX SDK: see THIS[^] for more details...

C++

DirectX

bezier curve in directx

12 Oct 2010 by The Manoj Kumar

This should help you :) Bezier Curve DirectX[^]

C++

DirectX

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 error due to missing Directx9 libs, need directx 9 libs?

18 Feb 2013 by iDebD

Hi, I have downloaded a open source game and want to modify it according to my need, It has following code in resource file:// Main Include Headers.#include // Required header for sprintf() & sprintf_s().#define DIRECTINPUT_VERSION 0x0800// Direct3D#include...

Build error due to missing Directx9 libs, need directx 9 libs?

18 Feb 2013 by Leo Chapiro

Hi,I think you need the DirectX SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23549[^]Download the complete DirectX SDK, which contains the DirectX Runtime and all DirectX software required to create DirectX compliant applications.

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 # video player to capture the mouse events when double-click the playback screen

19 Jun 2011 by pucx

C # video player by using directx, set its owener to a form panel control.I want to use the mouse hook to capture mouse double click event, but I do not know how to restrict in the playback screen when I double-click for the appropriate action.No matter where I am now double-click will perform...