The History of Managed DirectX
The first public release of Managed DirectX happened on December 20, 2002, with the release of DirectX 9; however, the project had been in development for quite some time. Late in the development cycle for DirectX 8.1, while I was working on DirectX for Visual Basic, I started playing with the first beta of Visual Studio.NET and the .NET runtime, and it was obvious to me that this was the future of development. I began working on a prototype of “DirectX.NET,” which would eventually become Managed DirectX, during this time.
From the beginning, Managed DirectX was designed to be just as powerful as the “core” API, with little to no overhead. In the past, Visual Basic users of DirectX lacked the ability to develop ...
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