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.

Adventures In Abattoirville

by Xavier John

A Maze based game.

An app that reads out text for you

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

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

by Android on Intel

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

Asynchronous Progress Using Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback in C#

by CRayGoodwin

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

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 1

by WajihUllahBaig

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

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 2

by WajihUllahBaig

A console program that captures audio and saves it.

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 3

by WajihUllahBaig

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

Audio File Saving for the DirectX.Capture Class Library

by almere109

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

AViD

by Andrew Rissing

An application for visualizing common dendrimer models

Axiom

by chazza_10101

How to setup an Axiom application

Basic Directx Transformation with VB.NET

by Abudreas

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

Basic Video Capture and VMR9

by WajihUllahBaig

Capturing video from webcam and VMR9 windowless rendering with DirectShow.

Beginning Direct3D

by Vahid Kazemi

Start Direct3D programming and create a window

Beginning Direct3D 10

by Vahid Kazemi

Create your first application using Direct3D 10.

Believable physics in C#

by Mårten R

How to create believable physics using C#.

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

by CMalcheski

Thinking outside the box can result in critical performance gains

Box2D and Direct2D

by arussell

Box2D DebugDraw Implemented using DirectX 2D and win32

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

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

by Shao Voon Wong

Bring your existing WPF and Winform application to the Microsoft Store

Build Flappy Bird 3000 using the Ring programming language

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

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

by Leslie Sanford

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

C# Synth Toolkit - Part II

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

by John Underhill

Simple alarm system for those on a budget..

Camera Vision - video surveillance on C#

by Andrew Kirillov

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

Camera_Net Library

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

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.

by Dillip Kumar Kara

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

Capture Sample with DirectX and .NET

by Blas5

A solution to capture video and frames simultaneously

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

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

by hpAng

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

cHitChecker - Solving the hit testing problem in game development

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

by Razvan Aguridan

Beginner optimization tutorial

Comparing GPU Resource Update Strategies in Diligent Engine

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

by BlackDice

A front-end for Microsoft's Conv3ds utility.

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

by shunninghuang

CPS1 emulator, ROM hacking

Create games with the AllegNet library for .NET 2.0

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

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

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

by Vorn Mom

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

D3dHost - MDX and WPF interoperability

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

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.

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

by Jose A Pascoa

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

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

by Bruno Sonnino

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

Developing MIDI applications with DirectMusic

by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

A wrapper class library for the DirectMusic MIDI.

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

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

by CMalcheski

Part II - Laying the Foundation for the Migration to Assembly

Direct2D: Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 Plotting

by Michael Chourdakis

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

Direct3D Rendering Cookbook

by Bartlomiej Filipek

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

DirectDraw extension

by Stephane Rodriguez

A DirectDraw Framework made of template classes

DirectShow - Fine TV Tuning Using IKsPropertySet.

by Liaqat Fayyaz

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

DirectShow Filters - What They Are

by tanvon malik

This article is about DirectShow filters and how to create them

DirectShow Filters (For Beginners)

by tanvon malik

DirectShow filters are described in an easy to understand way.

DirectShow Filters Development Part 1: Video Rendering with Direct2D

by Roman Ginzburg

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

DirectShow Filters Development Part 2: Live Source Filter

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.

DirectShow Filters Development Part 3: Transform Filters

by Roman Ginzburg

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

DirectShow Source Filter for Painting on DC

by Ashok Jaiswal

How to paint in DC in source filter

DirectShow VB.NET Example

by lilbiz8

A VB.net example to show how to use DirectShow in VB.NET.

DirectShow Video and Audio Trimming

by Kovalev Maxim

How to cut off specified parts of media file using DirectShow

DirectShow: TV Fine-tuning using IKsPropertySet in C#

by almere109

Enhancements to the DirectX.Capture class for TV fine-tuning using IKsPropertySet.

DirectSound Wrapper Classes

by Arman S.

An article on multimedia - playing Waves by using the DirectSound component.

DirectUI

by Leslie Zhai

Open source windowless presentation manager library with DirectX 3D anmiation

DirectX 10: Information Summary

by James Gupta

Learn about DirectX 10 here - article will be updated as information is released

DirectX 11 Compute Shaders

by Asif Bahrainwala

HPC via Compute Shaders (GPGPU).

DirectX 8 Template

by Anthony Roach

A framework for writing apps using DirectX 8

DirectX 8 Template 2

by Anthony Roach

An extension to the DirectX framework for adding backgrounds

DirectX 9 SDK with .NET Forms (C++)

by IrrationalThinking

Shows you how to implement a DirectX Render Window into a .NET Form.

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part III

by CMalcheski

App Initialization and Main Window Creation

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(a)

by CMalcheski

Initializing DirectX

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(b): the Full DirectX App

by CMalcheski

A Full DirectX Sample Application Created in Pure Assembly Language

DirectX Board Game Engine

by Fredrik Bornander

An article on how to create a generic engine for board games such as Checkers or Chess

DirectX Lessons, Lesson 2 (Direct3D Device Initialization)

by Mohamed Meshref

The second lesson in the DirectX lessons in C#

DirectX MIDI - Simultaneously Play Multiple MIDI Files from Memory Using MCI Functions

by LeisureBamboo

In this article, you will see the steps required to simultaneously play multiple midi file from memory using MCI functions.

DirectX Tutorial Part I: DirectX Dialog Template for fast pixelwise drawing to DirectX surfaces

by Doga Arinir

CDirectXDialog is a base class for dialog classes in which you want to use DirectX.

DirectX Tutorial Part II: Using the CDirectXDialog class in a pinball game

by Doga Arinir

CDirectXDialog is a base class for dialog classes in which you want to use DirectX. This example gives a profound describtion about the features of this class.

DirectX Video Stream and frame capture

by hpAng

A library that can capture video stream and frame together

DirectX10 Geometry Shader with Stream Output

by Asif Bahrainwala

GS-SO tutorial for basic effects

Double Buffered Graphics using DirectDraw

by Gertruud Lawrence

This article explains how my class CDXSurfaceMgr can be used to facilitate Double Buffered drawing.

Drawing 2d in DirectX 8 and Above using ID3DXSprite

by Prakash Nadar

The tutorial demonstrates the usage of ID3DXSprite to render a 2D image using Directx 8.

Drawing with DirectDraw & GDI

by marb

Drawing Graphics fast with DirectDraw than with GDI

Endogine sprite engine

by Jonas Beckeman

Sprite engine for D3D and GDI+ (with several game examples).

EVR Presenter in pure C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on EVR with custom presenter over Direct3D in .NET

Extract Frames from Video Files

by JockerSoft

Class to extract frames from most video file formats using IMediaDet

Extracting still pictures from movie files, with C#

by daniel049

Sample application to extract still pictures from most movie file formats.

Fabrika LAB: WebCam Video

by Dejan Mauer

Free and easy way to access a web camera by using the Aforge library.

Falling Blocks

by Xavier John

A game written using Visual C++ and DirectX.

Features of DVB-T2 application development using C# and DirectShow.NET library

by Denis Lysikov

In this article I'm going to tell about the features of working with DVB-T2 TV tuners and the nuances that you can expect in this work.

FFT Guitar Tuner

by notmasteryet

Using a Fast Fourier Transform to calculate the fundamental frequency of the captured audio sound

Force Feedback in Managed DirectX

by Chris McElligott Park

A C# example of working Force Feedback in Managed DirectX

Game Companies Speed Up Development with Intel® Sample Code

by Intel

Game Companies Speed Up Development with Intel® Sample Code

Game Engine

by Member 3873633

A game engine first prototype

Get vertices from a mesh base object with Managed C++

by Geraud Cambournac

How to get the vertices from a mesh base object with Managed C++.

Getting Started with Mesh Shaders in Diligent Engine

by EgorYusov

Introduction to amplification and mesh shaders, the new programmable stages available in modern GPUs, and how to use them to implement view frustum culling and object LOD selection on the GPU using the Diligent Engine API

Getting Started with Shader Effects in WPF

by Kubajzz

All you need to know about GPU - accelerated effects in Windows Presentation Foundation

Google Maps Offline Windows

by omeecode

Google Maps Offline in windows discusses how one can download or save Google maps and then view these images offline

Grausteroids - an Asteroids game using DirectX and C++

by Christian Graus

An Asteroid's clone which needs some work but will illustrate some points about writing games.

GUI Library for Managed DirectX Applications

by AvengerDr

This article introduces the Odyssey User Interface, a library of controls that can be used in any Managed DirectX application.

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#

Half Life Game Level Viewer

by Paul Higinbotham

DirectX based application to open and view Half Life 1 game files

Hands Gesture Recognition

by Andrew Kirillov

Some ideas about Hands Gesture Recognition in still images and video feeds, using the AForge.NET framework (C#).

Height Map Rendering with Igneel Engine

by Ansel Castro

Describes the basic steps to render height maps using the graphics engine of Igneel

Heresy I - Why Floating Point Coordinates are Wasteful

by John Hilton

Save space and save the planet by using integer coordinates

Heresy II - Why 4D Homogeneous Transform/Clip/Project is Wasteful

by John Hilton

See why your GPU is getting so hot.

How to create a DirectX 3D virtual world

by Adrian Brutus

A project that alows the user to create a 3D world.

How To Create a NT(Win) Service Using C++ with Managed Extensions

by DGoins

This article explains how to create a NT Service also known as a Windows Service using C++ with Managed Extensions.

How to implement the built in effects of DirectX.DirectSound

by jackjohnston99

The purpose of this article is to give example of how to implement the built in effects of DirectX.DirectSound

Implementing Dynamic Resources with Direct3D12

by EgorYusov

This article describes how to implement dynamic resources with Direct3D12 API using ring buffers.

Instantly Increase the Value of your Windows Application

by gricardi

As users are migrating from traditional desktops to mobile devices, transitioning your Windows application to the web is the next step to increasing your exposure. Thinfinity VirtualUI delivers your Windows applications to users on any device, anywhere.

Intel GPA 2015 R1 - OpenGL splits from DirectX - and it's all free!

by Android on Intel

Which Intel software tool includes a new name, new features, and it's ALL available for FREE?

Interactive 3D Spectrum Analyzer Visualization for Windows Media Player

by Carlo McWhirter

Interactive 3D Spectrum Analyzer for Windows Media Player using DirectX 9 and some light GPGPU.

Introducing Investigo: Using a Proxy DLL and embedded HTTP server for DirectX9 Performance Analysis, Debugging and Automated Performance Testing.

by Ashley Davis

Introducing Investigo: Using a Proxy DLL and embedded HTTP server for DirectX9 Performance Analysis, Debugging and Automated Performance Testing

Introduction to D3DImage

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.

Introduction to DirectDraw and Surface Blitting

by Mauricio Ritter

This is an introductory example of how to create a simple application using the DirectDraw library to produce some animation in fullscreen mode. It requires DirectX SDK 7 or greater to run.

Introduction to Managed Direct3D 9 - Creating a 3D clock (updated 6/29/04)

by Karl 2000

This article shows you how to create a simple Direct 3D application. You will create a 3 dimensional clock using simple meshes and textures.

Introduction to Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX 12

by Android on Intel

Introduction to Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX 12

Invasion - A computer game using DirectDraw

by Mauricio Ritter

This "Space Invaders"-like game was originally writen in DirectX 6, but I've changed some things so that you can use it with the latest version of the DirecX SDK. It uses just the Windows API and DirectX library (no MFC here). Have fun!

Joystick Driver Project

by Work Damnit!

Need to control something with a Joystick in Windows? Here is an easy to use driver that will help you do it.

KillTux

by Kastellanos Nikos

The Space Donuts 3D for MFC.

Learning Binary and Hexadecimal

by Jeremy Falcon

A beginner's guide to talking like a computer.

LED Style Volume Meter Using DirectX

by stebo0728

A DirectX based Audio Volume Meter, emulates LED panel on sound board.

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Lego Pan Tilt Camera and Objects Tracking

by Andrew Kirillov

Turning regular USB web camera into a pan tilt camera using the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit and tracking simple objects using C#.

Loading and Rendering Milkshape 3D Models with Animation and Skinning

by Tiberiu Boros

This article shows how to load Milkshape ms3d binary files, animate and display them with OpenGL

Loading time consuming textures/images in a background thread in a DirectX application

by Sajjitha Gunawardana

This program demonstrates how multithreading could be used to load textures etc., into a DirectX program so that the program startup time could be reduced.

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.

Managed DirectDraw with Windows Mobile

by Ziad Elmalki

Using Managed DirectDraw with Windows Mobile.

Managed DirectX Tutorials: Part 1 - Setting Up DirectX

by James Gupta

This is the first in a series of tutorials designed to show you how to create a basic terrain engine.

Managed DirectX Tutorials: Part 2 - Initialising Direct3D

by James Gupta

This is the second in a series of tutorials designed to show you how to create a basic terrain engine.

Managed DirectX Tutorials: Part 3 - Rendering Primitives

by James Gupta

This is the third in a series of tutorials designed to show you how to create a basic terrain engine.

Managed DirectX Tutorials: Part 8 - Exploring the Terrain with Basic Input

by James Gupta

Great, we have terrain, but now, in a similar fashion to Dr. Livingstone we must explore this vast terrain

Managed DirectX via F#

by logicchild

An article that illustrates referencing DirectX Libraries in an F# application

Managing Descriptor Heaps in Direct3D12

by EgorYusov

Descriptors and descriptor heaps are key components of a new resource binding paradigm introduced in Direct3D12. This article describes an efficient system for managing descriptor heaps.

Managing Lifetimes of Direct3D12 Resources

by EgorYusov

This article describes a low-overhead strategy for managing lifetimes of resources in Direct3D12.

MarbleMaze

by Ayush001

Traditional game which becomes more interetsing.

Media files conversion using C#

by daniel049

Demonstrates building DirectShow filter graphs for file conversion.

MFC D3D Application - Direct3D Tutorial Part II

by hector [.j.] rivas

Part II of the step by step MFC + D3D tutorial, with a custom Direct3D framework.

MIDI Star

by Amory Wong

An article on parsing MIDI files and using MIDI events.

MIDI Wrapper Classes

by Arman S.

An article that presents some C++ classes to play MIDI files.

More Explicit Diligent Engine: Getting on Top of State Management in Direct3D12 and Vulkan

by EgorYusov

This article introduces the problem of resource state management and synchronization in modern graphics APIs such as Direct3D12 and Vulkan and describes a solution offered by Diligent Engine.

Motion detection using a webcam

by Taha Elsayed

Motion detection using webcam, by C#.

MP3, Wav, and PCM Audio Recorder Using iTunes in C#

by Lukasz Kwiecinski, Istrib, Ed Nutting

A program that integrates with iTunes and DirectSound to record music

Multimedia Streaming Synchronization Mechanisms Under DirectShow

by Stephane Rodriguez

An overview of three methods on how to perform multimedia streaming.

Multiplayer Snake in 3D using C# and Managed DirectX

by Cr@zyIv@n

A new version of the old game.

Murl Engine* Cross-Platform Development Tool with Android* x86 Support

by Android on Intel

The Murl Engine is a fresh and free solution for cross-platform development. It is focused on games and multimedia applications and is currently supporting Android, iOS, Windows, OS X and Linux* platforms.

Night Stalker

by Christ Kennedy

A C# game using Sprite-Editor graphics, way-points for AI controlled characters, and a mini-map collision detection scheme.

NormalMapCompressor - A tool to automatically compress normal maps

by DeltaEngine

Normal maps are used for realtime 3D rendering (mostly in games) to improve the visual quality, but compressing them makes the 3D content look ugly, this tool helps to fix that problem.

Overlay Tools

by User 2739121

..using DirectDraw - A tool for displaying a customisable overlay

Paste Date Time Stamp While Capturing Image in Windows Store App

by Farhan Ghumra

Here I am presenting you how can you paste date time in photo. This article will be helpful to those devs who want to add CamaraCaptureUI in their apps.

Perfect Panning in 3D (Zoom Too)

by John Hilton

How to pan in perspective views so the point under the cursor stays under the cursor.

Performance Considerations for Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX 12

by Intel

This article describes how to pick different resource binding mechanisms to run an application efficiently on specific Intel’s GPUs.

Play and Visualize WAV Files using Managed Direct Sound with VB.NET

by ENO

“Circular Buffers” is an application developed in VB.NET (VS 2003).

Play Audio Files with DirectSound and Display its Spectrum in Real Time - Part 3

by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play audio file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time accurately

Play Wave file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time

by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play a Wave file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time.

Play Wave Files with DirectSound and Display its Spectrum in Real Time - Part 2

by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play a Wave file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time.

Playing Wave Files using Streaming Buffers

by xsamar

An article on Streaming buffers

Porting Code Through XML

by daluu

Framework for porting code between different languauges and platforms through a standard XML schema.

Preview and Record with MPEG2 Capture device

by BeCapture

This article shows how to work with MPEG2 capture devices such as Preview, Record. Works with all video renderers. Grab picture and configure MPEG2 Demux.

Problems in the AudioVideoPlayback namespace of managed DirectX9

by Christian Graus

A guided tour of the many reasons NOT to use DirectX9 for your audio/video playback needs

ProcAmp for DirectShow.Net

by Jarno Burger

How to use use brightness, contrast, saturation, hue in your DirectShow.Net filtergraph.

Programming DirectShow applications in C#: A set of tutorials

by daniel049

A collection of tutorials for programming DirectShow in C#.

Prototyping DirectShow filters in C#

by daniel049

This article shows how to implement a DirectShow filter in C#.

Pure .NET DirectShow Filters in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make DirectShow Filters in .NET, it consist of BaseClasses and couple of samples

QuickQuery - a database querying tool

by BlackDice

A tool for querying all types of databases.

RaceX - A 2D racing game using DirectDraw

by Mauricio Ritter

This is a 2D racing game that uses a DirectX wrapper library. The game has single player and multiplayer support.

Ramblings about your own, fast C# Maths library

by Inaki Ayucar

Why not building your own C# Maths library instead of using the ones included in APIs like DirectX or XNA?

Ray Tracing has become Diligent

by EgorYusov

An introduction to ray tracing API in Diligent Engine

Reading audio, video devices and codecs in DirectShow

by WajihUllahBaig

How to read audio, video devices and codecs installed on a PC via DirectShow.

Real-time video image processing / frame grabber using a minimalistic approach

by Ladislav Nevery

Probably the simplest possible sample for video image grabber on Windows. Supports AVI, MPG, QTV, Webcam,TVTuner, etc.

Recording DirectX and OpenGL Rendered Animations

by Gopalakrishna Palem

Explains methods for recording DirectX and OpenGL rendered animations programmatically.

Rendering 3D Graphic in .NET with C# and Igneel.Graphics

by Ansel Castro

The article shows how to render 3D graphics with C# in .NET using an API Igneel.Graphics.

Rendering terrains with Managed DirectX

by Cr@zyIv@n

With use of the High Level Shader Language, this article will help you create almost photorealistic terrains.

Rendering Text with Direct2D & DirectWrite

by Espen Harlinn

Direct2D, DirectWrite, Windows API, C++, std::shared_ptr and more

Rendering Textures with Alpha Channels and Color Key Transparency using a MatrixStack in Managed Direct3D

by Greg Rezansoff

This brief article describes how to use managed Direct3D to render texture bitmaps with alpha channels and transparency key colours onto vertices in C# with the aid of a MatrixStack.

Rotating Sprite Objects on DirectDraw Wrapper for C#

by Sergio Mach

Evaluate C# on delivering more than 1000 animated sprites on fullscreen 1280x1024.

Sciter - multiplatform embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting UI engine

by c-smile

Basics of Sciter embedding principles, high-level overlook of Sciter SDK structure.

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.

Seeking and getting the position snippets for DirectShow.NET

by Jarno Burger

How to seek and get the position and duration for your DirectShow movie with VB.NET.

Shader Effects in WPF - The basics

by Kenneth Haugland

Create HLSL files, compile them and use them in a WPF appliction. A light Shazzam Shader Editor tool for Visual Studio

Sharing Surfaces between OpenCL™ and DirectX 11 on Intel® Processor Graphics

by Intel

This tutorial demonstrates how to share surfaces between OpenCL™ and DirectX 11 with Intel ® Processor Graphics on Microsoft Windows, using the surface sharing extension in OpenCL.

Showing an animated image over running video

by tanvon malik

An easy class which hides all nastiness of DirectShow, and helps in showing an image over playing video, and you can also control the image's transparency. Briefly described is how to do this all.

Simple Keyboard Electric Organ

by hevesir

This is a simple electric organ (piano) to teach how to synthesize sound with directsound.

Simple Managed DirectX Render Loop

by Eric Falsken

A simple framework for implementing the best possible Managed DirectX render loop for games or simulations written in Microsoft .NET.

Simple Media Player

by verma-rahul

A simple media player.

Simple VB.NET MIDI & Wave Play Class

by EcoSys

MIDI & Wave Player for VB.NET.

Simulating Mirror in a Managed DirectX Application

by AmitDey

Simulating Mirror in a Managed DirectX Application

SnapWindows - StickyWindows reloaded

by Mr.PoorEnglish

A new approach to 2D - geometric computation replaces Point, Size, and Rectangle.

Sound Experiments in Managed DirectX

by DrGary83

Using static and streaming sound buffers in Managed DirectX.

SpaceWarrior - 2D DirectDraw Game - Part I

by darkoman

An article on creating a simple 2D DirectDraw game (the beginning).

SpaceWarrior - 2D DirectDraw Game - Part II

by darkoman

An article on creating a simple 2D DirectDraw game (the game elements).

SpaceWarrior - 2D DirectDraw Game - Part III

by darkoman

An article on creating a simple 2D DirectDraw game (the DirectX).

SpaceWarrior - A 2D DirectDraw Game

by darkoman

An article on a simple 2D space shooting game under DirectDraw.

Starting DirectX with Visual Basic .NET

by Abudreas

Create a DirectX device and draw some Primitives using VB!

Stencil Buffer Glows - Part 1

by JimRL

A glow effect achieved by leveraging the stencil buffer

Stencil Buffer Glows - Part 2

by JimRL

Create a more robust glow with basic post processing

Streaming over HTTP with JavaScript: AJAX video player

by Shahin__

In this article, we simulate data streaming with JavaScript and talk about its potentials to perform the tasks associated with plug-ins.

Streaming Server using Direct Show and Windows Media Format

by R@jeev K R

A simple streaming server using Direct Show and Windows Media Format SDK

Super Brick Breaker - A Simple DirectDraw Game

by Rob Walter

An article on using DirectX (DirectDraw) to create a simple game

SurfaceImageSource Manager: Connecting C# and DirectX/Direct2D using the WinRT/Metro SurfaceImageSource class, through a small C++ component

by Philippe Monteil

SurfaceImageSource Manager is a C++ WinRT component making it easy to produce ready-to-use SurfaceImageSource instances, and then use DirectX or Direct2D to define their aspect in C# Metro applications.

Taming the tessellator

by Asif Bahrainwala

Hull, Domain shader

Terrain Rendering

by Egor Yusov

Terrain Rendering is a game technology code sample that demonstrates how to render large-scale terrains in real time by efficiently distributing the tasks between the CPU and the GPU. This article provides an overview of the terrain-rendering application and includes a link to the free code.

TexasQuest v.2.0

by Terence Wallace

TexasQuest is a 2D side scroller platform game similiar to Super Mario

The Console Reinvented

by Dmitri Nеstеruk

A multi-view console written in C# and DirectX.

The Ultimate Managed DirectSound 9 Tutorial Part 2: managing 3D Sounds

by Dario Solera

How to playback sounds with 3D audio management.

The ultimate Managed DirectSound 9 Tutorial. Part 1: a full introduction to Playback

by Dario Solera

How to playback sounds, apply effects and more with the Managed DirectSound 9.

TT Audio Player

by TowerTurtle

An audio player made by Tower Turtle productions.

Ultra Rapid Object Detection in Computer Vision Applications with Haar-like Wavelet Features

by Chesnokov Yuriy

The article describes the use of Haar-like wavelet features for ultra fast object detection using a cascade of artificial neural network classifiers.

Understanding Direct3D 10 Application Code

by logicchild

An article that describes some of the important parts of Direct3D program code.

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

Unmanaged Vista Power

by DYSEQTA

How to access the power of Vista and the DWM without WPF and .NET

Use Android Phone as Webcam and Surveillance Camera

by mengwangk

Android phone as webcam or remote surveillance camera through Skype

Use Direct3D 8 To Fly Through the Munsell Color Solid

by John Kopplin

A tutorial on Direct3D 8

Using DirectSound to Play Audio Stream Data

by Cai Tao

An article on how to play audio stream data with DirectSound.

Using the DirectShow Video Mixing Renderer 9 filter

by Sameer Ahmed

This article describes how to dynamically mix two video files (.mpeg, .mpg, .avi and .dat). Mixing involves alpha-blending and stretching/shrinking and positioning of the two video streams, individually, using DirectShow's VMR9 filter.

Using third-party filters in a video application in C#

by daniel049

A simple application to test DirectShow filters.

Using XInput to access an Xbox 360 Controller in Managed Code

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Using the XInput library to interface with the Xbox 360 controller.

Video Effects in Direct3D. Part 1

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article shows how easy to make various video effects using PixelShaders in Direct3D.

Video File Saving in Windows Media Video Format for the DirectX.Capture Class Library

by almere109

Enhancements to the DirectX.Capture class for capturing audio and video to Windows Media files, using IWMProfile

VideoGame: To develop the just Engine sound

by okayit60

Oki.lib is a lib to use of the programmers to use in their projects develops with visual study NET 2003 or advanced and vc6.

VMR9 Allocator Presenter in C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on VMR9 with custom allocator presenter over Direct3D in .NET

Voice and Text Conferencing Library

by Irfan alam

A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application

What Resources Are Available to Developers Using Intel® INDE?

by Intel

In this article, we will introduce the components of INDE and show how developers can use them to create new applications and optimize existing applications. To start with Intel® INDE provides support for IDE integration.

Why Play Guitar Hero When An Android Can Do It For You?

by Rafael Mizrahi

An android that plays the Guitar Hero game. A DirectX DirectShow filters the video feed from the PlayStation2, detects where, when and how to play and moves the fingers accordingly.

Windows 7: Exploration of 7 exciting new programming features in a single application!

by Michael Chourdakis

Demonstration of seven new programming technologies.

Windows Forms, Managed DirectX and C++. All In One

by ManelF

This project shows with an example how to combine Managed C++, Managed DirectX and Windows Forms.

Windows Mobile DirectDraw Game Example

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Recreated an old game as a simple demonstration of DirectDraw.

Windows Virtual Machine screen saver

by Squirrel Twirler

A Windows version of a cool Linux screen saver.

Winduino: A Tool to Prototype Arduino Projects on the PC

by honey the codewitch

Run and develop Arduino code, including a display, on PC using this Windows PC shim and emulator.

Working with Stream Buffer engine - TIME SHIFT on Windows XP Service Pack 1

by BeCapture

The new generation of capture device - MPEG2 capture that does time shift.

WPF Parent Window Shading Using Pixel Shaders

by Fredrik Bornander

This article discusses using Pixel Shaders to shade the main window when a dialog is showing.

Wrapper class for playing video with the VMR9

by Guitool

Class for playing and mixing video files using DirectX9 Video Mixing Renderer.

Write a Screensaver that Actually Works

by Rei Miyasaka

A base class for managing screensaver initialization, timing, preview view, and multiple monitor support, the proper way.

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 1 - Windows Media Splitter example.

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic task which are requre to solve for developing your own DirectShow Splitter filters.

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 2 - AVI File Source example

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic tasks for implementing your own File Source DirectShow filters.

Xbox 360 Controller Input in C++ with XInput

by Minalien

A small tutorial on how to use XInput (requires the DX SDK) to handle input from an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows.

XML Writer for MP3 Tags, with XSD Validation Using LINQ to XML

by rspercy65

Creates MP3 tag XML files and validates them

XNA & Beyond: The Path to VS 2008

by Pedro Güida

The article shows how to embed a XNA-based game into a WinForms control with ease. Also, it explains how to integrate an XNA GS project into VS2008 (this IDE is not currently supported by XNA GS), and in turn, to be able to use WPF with your XNA-based creation.

XNA Alpha Textures

by Tiberiu Boros

This shows how to create and combine transparent sprites in C# XNA

XNA: A Beginner's Introduction

by Marc Clifton

Getting started with XNA, Blender, and 3D modeling