There are many version numbers in Windows, and many different ways to obtain and use them. The plethora of ways to get versioning information, and the many different kinds of components involved, has typically resulted in lots of rope for developers to...

The DirectX SDK (February 2010) release is live on Microsoft downloads . See that page for full release notes. This release contains: Improvements to PIX particularly for Direct3D 11 support a minor update to XNAMath v2.02 including some notable...

For anyone doing work with DirectX, you've likely run into texture data being stored as a .DDS file. This format has it roots in the misty dark ages of DirectX history and in fact "DDS" stands for "DirectDraw Surface". The format is largely just a binary...