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Supports VisualStudio 2010. Blog post about this release is here.

Supports Visual Studio 2008. Blog post about this release is here.

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How often do you derive a class and re-create all of the base constructors? This is not an uncommon task, let's take a custom exception class for example: public class MyException: Exception { } If you right click on Exception and pick Go to Definition from the context menu you'll see that the Exception class has four constructors: public ...

I have an IPTV provided by biggest national IPTV/IS provider. The current service is poor at best. We have FTTH (the slowest is 20Mb - that's awesome) but really lousy (~4Mb at best) MPEG2(!) encoded streams. The most obvious consequence of such encoding is pixelation when there is a faster change on the picture and poor quality in general. To ...

In a week or so I've created two HLSL effects in two different .fx files. While they were really simple and straightforward, one of them failed to load at runtime in my managed DirectX 3D application (yet both worked in NVidia FX Composer). Why would one fail while another is working? The error information was really non existent (i.e. ''there was ...

Did you ever try to play a video inside your DirectX application, or a newer XNA Game Studio? One could assume that this is a trivial task, right? WPF lets you play it, heck, even Silverlight has no problems playing video - it is a matter of setting a bunch of properties on a proper object and voila. So, XNA (same goes for DirectX) shouldn't ...