Microsoft DirectX SDK (November 2007) Released
Saturday, October 27 2007 - directx, game-development
Microsoft have just Released the DirectX SDK (November 2007 Release).
Included in this release is a small note that as of March 2008 the DirectX SDK will support Visual Studio 2008, and will drop support for Visual Studio 2003.
The one thing that you will find is that several components of the SDK have been removed.
The DirectX SDK No Longer Contains...
The DirectX SDK no longer contains the following components:
- Direct3D8 and all of the earlier versions
- Direct3D RM
- DirectAnimation
- DirectMusic
- DirectInput7 and all of the earlier versions
- DirectPlay
- DirectPlayVoice
- DirectX8-era HRESULT conversion routines
- Managed DirectX samples and documentation
Developers wanting to use these components will need to download the August 2007 DirectX SDK, available from MSDN.
The REDIST and Web DXSetup have not been affected by these removals.
Here are the Direct Links to the Downloads...
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