
Direct3D enables developers to attach arbitrary data to objects in D3D code using the SetPrivateData API for application-specific usage. The June 2010 version of PIX supports naming for most resource objects in Direct3D (D3D). However, Visual Studio 2005 will no longer be supported. The DirectX SDK will continue to support Visual Studio 2008 as well.

The June 2010 DirectX SDK includes support for Visual Studio 2010. However, Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) that supported on Windows 7 and Windows Vista only. Except Windows XP users cannot install DirectX 11.This DirectX SDK release contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, documentation, and runtime debug files for 圆4 and x86 platforms. This technical preview allows developers to evaluate the API and write simple applications, with some of the more advanced functionality possible on properly configured machines.ĭirectWrite provides support for high-quality text rendering, resolution-independent outline fonts, and full Unicode text and layout support, and much, much more.ĭXGI 1.1 builds on DXGI 1.0 and will be available on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Direct2D API is designed to interoperate well with Direct3D and GDI.

This DirectX11 release contains the following new Direct features and tools:ĭirect2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. Good news is, it is not only available as Technical Preview but also as DirectX End-User Runtimes. “This version of the Windows 7/Direct3D 11 Technical Preview ships as part of the DirectX SDK and contains the following new features, tools, and documentation: Technical Preview of Direct2D Technical Preview of DirectWrite Technical Preview of DXGI 1.1,” the Redmond company informed.Īs Windows 7/Direct3D 11 Technical Preview is part of DirectX SDK and contains Technical Preview of Direct2D, DirectWrite, DXGI 1.1. After making DirectX 10 available for windows Vista, Microsoft has released DirectX 11 with Direct3D 11 available for download as technical preview for public testing.

DirectX 11, the next generation of Windows DirectX graphic technology will be implement on Windows 7 with support wide varieties of Windows games and graphic display devices.
