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Welcome to the first entry of the Managed DirectX 9 Tutorial. This tutorial is aimed at people who haven't done any 3D programming so far and would like to see some results in the shortest possible time. To this end, C# is an ideal programming language. C# is a relatively easy language, so anyone who has some basic programming experience should be able to start right away. Even more, this tutorial is written in such a way that anyone who has any programming experience should be able to understand and complete it.
The required software to start writing your own DirectX 9 code :
A C# programming environment. Popular is Visual Studio .NET, but you can also download the free evaluation version of Borland C# Builder. Recently, Microsoft has released a free version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express, which you can download here: (link)
The .NET framework. (free) (link)
And of course the DirectX9 SDK. (free) (link)
With all this software installed, you can start a new C# Application. To do this in Visual Studio, click the File menu and select New. As project type, we of course need Visual C#. Now on the right, you can select Windows Application. Fill in the name, and hit the OK button!
Now you should see a small empty form. To switch to the code, find Program.cs at the right of your screen. Right click on it and select View code. Next, you should add a reference to Microsoft.DirectX and to Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D. This is how you do it: in Visual Studio, go to the Project menu, and select ‘Add reference…’. In the list that comes up, pick Microsoft.DirectX and Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D. Be sure NOT to select DirectX version 2.0. Also add the following lines to you using-block, so your program can use the referenced libraries:
using Microsoft.DirectX;
using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D;
Compiling this will already give you an empty form. Now we want to change the size and the title of it. To do this, simply find the InitializeComponent() method and change the size to (500,500) and the title (= this.Text) to "DirectX Tutorial" or whatever you like.
Next we are going to change the Main() method a bit:
static void Main()
{
using (WinForm our_directx_form = new WinForm())
{
Application.Run(our_directx_form);
}
}
You are now ready to start programming with DirectX! Compiling this code should give you a small form.
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After each chapter I will list the whole code so far, so this is what you should have by now :
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.DirectX;
using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D;
namespace DirectX_Tutorial
{
public class WinForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
private Device device;
private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;
public WinForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
protected override void Dispose (bool disposing)
{
if (disposing)
{
if (components != null)
{
components.Dispose();
}
}
base.Dispose(disposing);
}
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(500,500);
this.Text = "DirectX Tutorial";
}
static void Main()
{
using (WinForm our_dx_form = new WinForm())
{
Application.Run(our_dx_form);
}
}
}
}
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