DirectX learning

DirectX History

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1. DirectX in Wiki. it is a collections for these APIs: Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. Current version of DirectX is 12.
   support in .net Framework. start from 2002, Known API is "Manged DirectX"(MDX for short), then MDX 2.0 in 2006. Then Microsoft present XNA Framework(Similar but not idential to MDX). now no Microsoft product including the latest XNA releases provides DirectX 10 suport for the .net framwork.
   Now we have third-party libraries to approach to DirectX like:
   1.1 SlimDX: an open source library for DirectX programming on the .NET Framework
   1.2 SharpDX: elivering the full DirectX API for .NET on all Windows platforms, allowing the development of high performance game, 2D and 3D graphics rendering as well as real-time sound applications
   1.3 DirectShow.net for the DirectShow subset