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2024 November

• VS 2022 Update 12

2024 October

• Windows SDK for Windows 11, Version 24H2

2024 August

• VS 2022 Update 11

2024 May

• VS 2022 Update 10

2024 February

• VS 2022 Update 9

2023 November

• VS 2022 Update 8

2023 August

• VS 2022 Update 7

2023 May

• VS 2022 Update 6

2023 March

• Vcpkg now supports targeting Xbox

2023 February

• VS 2022 Update 5

2023 January

• Windows 8.x now out of support

2022 November

• VS 2022 Update 4

2022 September

• Windows SDK for Windows 11, Version 22H2

2022 August

• VS 2022 Update 3
• vcpkg and GitHub Update

2022 June

• DirectXMath 3.17

2022 May

• DirectX and UWP on Xbox Series X|S
• VS 2022 Update 2

2022 March

• Advanced Format drives and Async I/O

2022 February

• VS 2022 Update 1

2021 November

• Visual Studio 2022

2021 October

• DirectX Tool Kit Vertex Skinning Update
• Windows SDK for Windows 11

2021 September

• Latest news on DirectX Tool Kit

2021 August

• VS 2019 Update 11

2021 July

• DirectXMath AVX and AVX2 - A Coda

2021 May

• VS 2019 Update 10
• DirectXMath 3.16

2021 April

• GameStack Live 2021
• D3DX_DXGIFormatConvert.inl - Back from the dead

2021 March

• VS 2019 Update 9
• Legacy D3DX on NuGet

2021 January

• Where is the DirectX SDK (2021 Edition)?
• DirectXTex, DirectXMesh and UVAtlas now support Linux

2020 December

• The Many Faces of D3DX12

2020 November

• VS 2019 Update 8
• The Care and Feeding of Modern Swap Chains (part 3)
• The Care and Feeding of Modern Swap Chains (part 2)
• The Care and Feeding of Modern Swap Chains (part 1)

2020 August

• VS 2019 Update 7

2020 July

• DirectX Caps Viewer Update

2020 June

• Modern C++ Bitmask types

2020 May

• VS 2019 Update 6
• Windows 10 May 2020 Update SDK
• DirectXTK for Audio updates and a Direct3D 9 footnote

2020 March

• GDC without the GDC
• VS 2019 Update 5
• DirectXMath 3.14

2020 February

• GitHub 2020

2019 December

• VS 2019 Update 4
• Twilight for Windows 7

2019 October

• Windows 10 November 2019 Update

2019 September

• VS 2019 Update 3

2019 July

• VS 2019 Update 2

2019 May

• VS 2019 Update 1
• Windows 10 May 2019 Update SDK

2019 April

• Visual Studio 2019

2019 March

• Welcome to GitHub Pages

2018 December

• DirectXMath - ARM64

2018 November

• VS 2017 (15.9 update)

2018 October

• DirectXMath 3.13
• Windows 10 October 2018 Update SDK

2018 August

• VS 2017 (15.8 update)

2018 May

• VS 2017 (15.7 update)
• Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK

2018 April

• GitHub, NuGet, and VSTS

2018 March

• VS 2017 (15.6 update)

2018 February

• DirectXMesh Update

2017 December

• DirectX and UWP on Xbox One
• VS 2017 (15.5 update)

2017 November

• CodePlex vs. GitHub

2017 October

• Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK

2017 August

• Visual Studio 2017 (15.3) update
• HDR Lighting and Displays

2017 June

• DirectXMath 3.11

2017 April

• A look back - Windows Vista
• DirectXMath 3.10
• Windows 10 Creators Update SDK

2017 March

• Visual Studio 2017

2017 February

• DirectX Tool Kit and C++/WinRT
• DirectXTex and DirectXMesh now support Direct3D 12

2016 September

• Getting Started with Direct3D 12

2016 August

• Anatomy of Direct3D 12 Create Device
• DirectXMath 3.09
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK

2016 July

• DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 12

2016 June

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

2016 March

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

2015 December

• Direct3D Game Visual Studio templates (Redux)
• DirectXMath 3.08

2015 November

• Windows 10 SDK (November 2015)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

2015 October

• Known Issues - XAudio 2.7

2015 August

• DirectX Tool Kit - Keyboard and Mouse support
• Where is the DirectX SDK (2015 Edition)?

2015 July

• Windows 10 SDK RTM
• DXGI Debug Device
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 5

2015 June

• DirectXMath - AVX2

2015 May

• Samples Content Exporter

2015 April

• DirectXMath 3.07
• GitHub

2015 March

• Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview
• The Zombie DirectX SDK
• GDC 2015

2015 January

• Direct3D Win32 Game Visual Studio template

2014 December

• Known Issues - DirectXMath 3.06
• Understanding Game Time Revisited

2014 November

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
• UVAtlas - Return of the Isochart

2014 October

• DirectX SDK Tools Catalog
• Windows 10 Technical Preview

2014 September

• DirectX Tool Kit - Now with GamePads

2014 August

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

2014 July

• CodePlex July 2014 Refresh

2014 June

• DirectXMesh

2014 May

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

2014 April

• Windows 8.1 Update
• Book Recommendations
• BUILD 2014

2014 March

• GDC 2014

2014 February

• Anatomy of Direct3D 11 Create Device

2014 January

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 1

2013 December

• DirectX Tool Kit for Audio

2013 November

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 4

2013 October

• CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh
• DirectXMath 3.06
• Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 SDK RTM are now available
• A Brief History of Windows SDKs

2013 September

• DirectX SDK Samples Catalog
• DXUT for Win32 Desktop Update
• Manifest Madness
• Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate

2013 August

• Living without D3DX
• DirectXTex and Effects 11 Update

2013 July

• Where is the DirectX SDK (2013 Edition)?

2013 June

• BUILD 2013 Conference
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
• DirectXTex Update
• Game Developer Conference 2013

2013 April

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2

2013 March

• Known Issues - DirectXMath 3.03

2013 February

• DirectX 11.1 and Windows 7 Update

2013 January

• DirectXTK Update
• Game Rating Systems and Windows 7

2012 November

• Direct3D SDK Debug Layer Tricks
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1
• Windows Imaging Component and Windows 8
• DirectX 11.1 and Windows 7
• BUILD 2012 Conference

2012 October

• Effects for Direct3D 11 Update

2012 September

• Dual-use Coding Techniques for Games, part 3
• Dual-use Coding Techniques for Games, part 2
• Dual-use Coding Techniques for Games, part 1
• DirectXMath - F16C and FMA
• DirectXMath - AVX
• DirectXMath - SSE4.1 and SSE4.2
• DirectXMath - SSE3 and SSSE3
• DirectXMath - SSE, SSE2, and ARM-NEON

2012 August

• DirectX SDKs of a certain age
• Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8.0 SDK RTM are now available

2012 July

• Spherical Harmonics Math

2012 June

• XNA Math Version 2.05 - Smoothing the transition to DirectXMath
• Direct3D Feature Levels
• DirectXTK and DirectXTex now on Codeplex

2012 May

• Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
• Windows 8.x and GDFs
• DirectX SDK Install Helpers
• Learning XAudio2
• HLSL, FXC, and D3DCompile
• Direct3D 11 Textures and Block Compression
• XINPUT and XAudio2

2012 April

• XDSP.H - Digital Signal Processing helper functions
• XINPUT and Windows 8
• Samples Content Exporter Update
• Where's DXERR.LIB?
• XAudio2 and Windows 8

2012 March

• Game Developer Conference 2012
• Introducing DirectXMath
• Desktop Games on Windows 8.x
• Where is the DirectX SDK?
• DirectXTK

2012 February

• Visual Studio 11 Beta

2011 December

• Known Issue - DirectX SDK (June 2010) Setup and the S1023 error
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

2011 November

• Gamefest 2011 Presentations Posted
• Windows Networking

2011 October

• TiledResources11
• DirectXTex

2011 July

• Getting Started with Direct3D 11

2011 June

• Kinect for Windows SDK Beta
• BC6HBC7EncoderDecoder Sample Update

2011 May

• Game Developer Conference 2011 Presentations Posted
• Visual C++ Runtime Update

2011 April

• DXSETUP Update

2011 March

• Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
• HLSL Compiler support for Symbolic Derivatives

2011 February

• XNA Math Version 2.04
• Windows 7 Service Pack 1

2011 January

• Known Issues in XNAMath v2.03
• Known Issue - TexconvEx

2010 December

• Windows x64
• DirectX and .NET

2010 November

• DXWEBSETUP Update
• Known Issue - D3D11InstallHelper sample

2010 October

• June 2010 HLSL Compiler Issue with Tessellation
• Goodbye to an old friend...

2010 September

• Not So Direct Setup

2010 August

• Direct3D 11 Multithreading
• Who moved my Windows Media Cheese?

2010 July

• Known Issue - Direct3D 11 UpdateSubresource and Deferred Contexts
• Direct3D 11 Tessellation
• DDSWithoutD3DX Sample Update
• DirectCompute

2010 June

• Games for Windows Update
• Whither DirectDraw?
• Gamefest 2010 Presentations Posted
• DDS Update and 10:10:10:2 Problems
• Windows SDK 7.1
• DirectX 11 Hardware Vendor Differences
• Announcement - DirectX SDK (June 2010) is live

2010 April

• What's up with D3DCompiler_xx.DLL?
• Object Naming
• What's Coming in the June 2010 DirectX SDK
• Visual Studio 2010 shipped!

2010 March

• Game Developer Conference 2010

2010 February

• What's in a version number?
• DirectX SDK (February 2010) is live
• The DDS File Format Lives

2010 January

• Direct3D 11 on Windows Vista with WSUS
• Gamefest 2010
• A little love for XNAMath...
• Welcome