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Announcing the DirectX 12 Agility SDK!

Jacques van Rhyn April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

We’re excited to unveil the DirectX 12 Agility SDK, an update that will allow devs to adopt the newest DirectX 12 graphics features faster than ever before. With the Agility SDK, developers can now add the newest DirectX 12 features to their games, and gamers can play games with these features without having to upgrade their OS...

DirectX Developer Blog

Getting Started with the Agility SDK

Jacques van Rhyn April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

This guide is intended for developers who want to get started developing games that use the Agility SDK. It covers: Be sure to also see our Announcement blog, Downloads Page, Game Stack Live talk and spec. What is the Agility SDK and how does it work? The DirectX team used to rely solely on Windows 10 OS ...

DirectX Developer Blog

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our atomic variant discriminator

Raymond Chen April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

Don't look unless you know it's safe.

The Old New Thing

Loop alignment in .NET 6

Kunal Pathak April 19, 2021 Apr 19, 2021 04/19/21

Loop alignment in .NET 6

.NET Blog

Visual Studio 2022

Amanda Silver April 19, 2021 Apr 19, 2021 04/19/21

All of our product development begins and ends with you—whether you posted on Developer Community, filled out a survey, sent us feedback, or took part in a customer study, thank you for helping to continue to steer the product roadmap for Visual Studio. I have exciting news—the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 will be released ...

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Visual Studio Blog

AzureFunBytes Episode 36 - Intro to Chaos Engineering with Ana Margarita Medina!

Jay Gordon April 19, 2021 Apr 19, 2021 04/19/21

This week I welcomed [Ana Margarita Medina][2], Senior Chaos Engineer and Developer Advocate from [Gremlin][3] to discuss [Chaos Engineering on Azure][4]. I have been really lucky to become friends with Ana over the last few years, she's so dedicated to helping this Chaos community!

Azure DevOps Blog

C++ coroutines: Allowing the awaiter to be destroyed while suspended

Raymond Chen April 19, 2021 Apr 19, 2021 04/19/21

We were already there.

The Old New Thing

Understanding Indirect ToF Depth Sensing

Oliver April 16, 2021 Apr 16, 2021 04/16/21

Now that you’ve had a chance to read the Intro to Indirect Time-of-Flight (ToF) post, let’s dig a little deeper into the mechanics behind the Microsoft implementation of time-of-flight depth sensing, as well as a couple functional advantages it presents. How does “Indirect” ToF work? To recap, “time-of-flight” refers to emitting ...

Azure Depth Platform

Servicing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 Linux kernel

Craig Loewen April 16, 2021 Apr 16, 2021 04/16/21

Note: This blog post is co-authored by the awesome WSL dev Pierre Boulay. Thanks Pierre! 😊 We’ve just shipped the 5.10.16.3 WSL 2 Linux kernel version to Windows Insiders which brings exciting new changes: Support for the LUKS disk encryption, and some long-awaited bug fixes. We’d like to seize this opportunity to highlight these ...