DirectX SDK Samples Catalog

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Originally posted to Chuck Walbourn's Blog on MSDN, Sep 20, 2013

Microsoft has moved away from providing samples in SDKs for a number of reasons, but primarily to reduce the size of the standalone downloads and to minimize the size of the SDKs when included in other products (such as the Windows SDK being included with Visual Studio). ~~The MSDN Code Gallery provides an online repository for samples, including both official Microsoft samples as well as community contributions.~~. Here’s a list of the samples from the legacy DirectX SDK (June 2010) and their locations online if available.

Update: As of the Windows 10 SDK, official Windows samples are hosted on GitHub: Windows-universal-samples, Windows-classic-samples, Windows-driver-samples. You can also use this website to search Microsoft official samples.

These republished legacy DirectX SDK samples are now found on GitHub as MSDN Code Gallery has been retired. DirectX 12 samples have their own repo, and also this one which hosts samples on DirectX and game development.

Direct3D 11 Tutorials	Tutorial01 - 07 Direct3D Tutorial Win32 Sample Tutorial08-10 Tutorial11-14
AdaptiveTessellationCS40 FluidCS11 HDRToneMappingCS11 NBodyGravityCS11 OIT11	DirectCompute Graphics Win32 Samples
BasicCompute11 ComputeShaderSort11	DirectCompute Basic Win32 Samples
BasicHLSL11 EmptyProject11 SimpleSample11	Basic DXUT Win32 Samples
BasicHLSL11FX DynamicShaderLinkageFX11 FixedFuncEMU Instancing10	Effects 11 Win32 Samples These samples make use of the Effects 11 (FX11) library.
BC6HBC7EncoderDecoder11	BC6H/BC7 DirectCompute Encoder Tool (Win32) Note this functionality is also present in the DirectXTex.
CascadedShadowMaps11 VarianceShadows11	Direct3D Shadow Win32 Samples
DDSWithoutD3DX DDSWithoutD3DX11	An updated version of this sample is posted here. The DDSTextureLoader is available in both DirectX Tool Kit (DX11 / DX12) and DirectXTex. There are versions for Direct3D 12, Direct3D 11, and Direct3D 9.
DynamicShaderLinkage11 / DynamicShaderLinkageFX11	Dynamic Shader Linkage Win32 Sample
MultithreadedRendering11	Direct3D Multithreaded Rendering Win32 Sample
SimpleBezier11 SubD11	Direct3D Tessellation Win32 Samples
UVAtlas	UVAtlas
Misc Collision	DirectXMath Win32 Sample
ContentExporter	Samples Content Exporter Update
CoreDetection	Core Detection Sample (Win32)
D3D11InstallHelper	Direct3D 11 Install Helper (Win32)
FirewallInstallHelper	Windows Firewall Install Helper (Win32)
GameuxInstallHelper	Gameux Install Helper (Win32)
VideoMemory	DirectX Video Memory (Win32)
XInput SimpleController RumbleController XInputGame	XInput Samples (Win32) XInput 1.4 is supported on Windows 8.x and Windows 10. XInput 9.1.0 is in all versions of Windows since Windows Vista. See XINPUT and Windows 8 for more information.
XAudio2 XAudio2BasicSound XAudio2BasicStream XAudio2Sound3D XAudio2CustomAPO	XAudio2 Samples (Win32) XAudio 2.8 is supported on Windows 8.x or Windows 10. Windows 10 includes XAudio 2.9 and is available through XAudio2Redist on Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.x as well. See XAudio2 and Windows 8 for more information. DirectXTK for Audio is also a sample of XAudio2 usage, and is demonstrated in the DirectX Tool Kit Simple Samples.
DirectInput Customformat FFConst Joystick	DirectInput Samples (Win32) Keyboard and Mouse samples are not included as use of DirectInput for these scenarios is not recommended. See this blog post.
Direct3D 9 AntiAlias - Text3D	The Direct3D 9 samples require D3DX9, and therefore make use of the Microsoft.DXSDK.D3DX NuGet package. They can be found on GitHub.
Direct3D 10 10BitScanout10 - TransparencyAA10.1	The Direct3D 10 samples require D3DX10, and therefore make use of the Microsoft.DXSDK.D3DX NuGet package. They can be found on GitHub.
DirectSound AdjustSound - VoiceManagement	The DirectX SDK (November 2007) release was the last time the DirectSound samples were shipped. They can be found on GitHub.

Windows 7.1 SDK Samples

DirectShow

A list of Windows 7.x SDK DirectShow samples is available on Microsoft Docs.

Note: You can find them on GitHub.

Windows Imaging Component

WIC Progressive Decode Win32 Sample
WIC Animated GIF Win32 Sample
WIC and Direct2D Image Viewer Win32 Sample

You can find them on GitHub.

The Windows 7.1A SDK is integrated with VS 2012 - VS 2019 as part of the v1xx_xp Platform Toolset, but does not include the samples. The easiest place to get these legacy samples now is on GitHub.

AMD Samples

These samples shipped in the DirectX SDK (June 2010) and were contributed by AMD.

DepthOfField10.1
HDAO10.1
TransparencyAA10.1

ContactHardeningShadows11
DecalTessellation11
DetailTessellation11
PNTriangles11

This samples make use of D3DX10/D3DX11 and therefore require the use of the Microsoft.DXSDK.D3DX NuGet package. These are included on GitHub.

Retired Samples

DirectDraw	The DirectX SDK 8.1 was the last to contain the DirectDraw samples.
DirectMusic DirectPlay	DirectX 9.0b (Summer 2003) was the last release of the DirectMusic or DirectPlay samples.
Managed DirectX 1.1	The DirectX SDK (August 2006) release was the last time the C# samples for legacy Managed DirectX 1.1 were shipped
XACT	The DirectX SDK (June 2010) contains the last release of XACT and related samples. Note that the DirectX Tool Kit for Audio includes a `XWBTool` command-line utility for creating/using XACT-style wave banks for both in-memory playback and streaming.

Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK blog

Windows 7.1 SDK Samples

AMD Samples

Retired Samples