17 October 2005, 00:26 in

October 2005 DirectX SDK

I meant to post this a while ago, but here goes anyway… Microsoft has released the latest October 2005 DirectX SDK. It is available for download from the MSDN DirectX Developer Centre.

According to the description, new features include XInput, an API that allows applications to receive input from the Xbox 360 controller for Windows, and XACT (beta), an audio design tool and associated API, and it is the first DirectX SDK with features designed to take advantage of the 2.0 Common Language Runtime in Managed DirectX.

I’ve been playing around with Managed DirectX. I noticed that there is now only a single DLL that needs to be referenced which includes the various APIs such as DirectX, DirectInput, DirectSound, etc (previously each had its own DLL). I also found that several interface changes have been made to the API. For example, some method names and property names have changed, some class structures slightly readjusted, and so on. Result: a large number of compiler errors in my Pong project. :(

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