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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2015


C++ and DirectX are being promoted by Microsoft as the primary way to build high-performance games in Windows 10.

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Developers looking for the spiritual (if not outright) successor to the popular XNA Framework are encouraged to check out MonoGame, an open source implementation of XNA at http://www.monogame.net/.

As a DirectX developer, you will be pleased to know that there is no longer a separate DirectX download required for Windows 10. The DirectX SDK is now incorporated into the Windows SDK, and the DirectX runtime is built into the Windows 10 operating system. For older versions of Windows, the current requirement to download a separate SDK and runtime remains in place.

Windows 10 includes two major versions of DirectX—DirectX 11.x representing the latest evolution of a higher-level API, and the new DirectX 12, which is a lower-level API providing much greater control in an effort to provide greater performance. When designing a project, you...