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CodePlex July 2014 Refresh

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Originally posted to Chuck Walbourn's Blog on MSDN,

In addition to the release of DirectXMesh, I’ve also updated the other CodePlex projects with July 2014 releases.

DirectX Tool Kit

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=248929

The July 2014 release includes some minor fixes to DirectXTK for Audio and some updates related to the latest Xbox One XDK.

The many versions of DirectXTK Simple Sample have been updated on MSDN Code Gallery.

  • SimpleSample - A Win32 desktop sample (no audio)
  • SimpleSample - A Win32 desktop sample that uses XAudio 2.8 (Windows 8.x)
  • SimpleSample - A Win32 desktop sample that uses XAudio 2.7 (Windows Vista or later) from the legacy DirectX SDK
  • SimpleSample - A Windows Store app sample for Windows 8
  • SimpelSample - A Windows Store app sample for Windows 8.1
  • SimpleSample - A Windows phone 8 sample
  • SimpleSample - A Win32 desktop sample that demonstrates DirectXTK in combination with DXUT.

Update: DirectX Tool Kit is also hosted on GitHub along with the latest versions of the samples.

Related: DirectXTK (March 2012), DirectXTK Update (Jan 2013), CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh, DirectX Tool Kit for Audio

DirectXTex

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=248926<

The July 2014 release fixes some bugs in texconv command-line tool and addresses some customer requests, as well as including some updates for the latest Xbox One XDK.

Update: DirectXTex is also hosted on GitHub

Related: DirectXTex (October 2011), DirectXTex Update (June 2013), DirectXTex and Effects 11 Update (August 2013), CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh

Effects for Direct3D 11

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=271568

The July 2014 release (11.10) is a minor update with some code review feedback.

Update: Effects 11 is also hosted on GitHub

Related: Effects for Direct3D 11 Update (October 2012), DirectXTex and Effects 11 Update (August 2013), CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh

Samples: The sample package for this version of Effects was refreshed along with a new sample (a port of the Direct3D 10 Instancing10 sample), as well as publishing of the “Effects” tutorials series Tutorial11 - 14 on MSDN Code Gallery.

DXUT for Direct3D 11

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=320437

The July 2014 release (11.06) has a number of bug fixes for device enumeration, the change device (F2) dialogs, and numerous other code review feedback changes.

Update: DXUT11 is also hosted on GitHub

Related: DXUT for Win32 Desktop Update (September 2013), CodePlex VS 2013 Refresh

Samples: The samples based on this version of DXUT posted on MSDN Code Gallery were also updated.