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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3

March 26, 2013 Mar 26, 2013 03/26/13

Roberto Sonnino - MSFT

As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D dice roller that allows you to roll a 6-sided die by tapping or clicking it. In the process of rolling a number, the die will jump and...

Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit – Now for Windows Phone 8

February 13, 2013 Feb 13, 2013 02/13/13

Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]

Last year, I decided I finally wanted to take the plunge into DirectX development. I'd done a little bit of OpenGL programming several years ago, but no graphics development since then. I bought a few DirectX books, worked through several online tutorials, and tried out the Visual Studio project templates and graphics asset tools, but wasn't ...

The Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast

May 7, 2012 May 7, 2012 05/7/12

Visual CPP Team

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we announced the Metro style apps with C++ event. Since we announced the camp, there were a lot of requests for a live webcast. Thanks to Jaime who just posted on this blog, the event will be broadcasted live!Quoting Jaime:Event sold out within a few days, and we got a lot of requests for it to be ...

Building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ Windows camp

April 24, 2012 Apr 24, 2012 04/24/12

Visual CPP Team

Hello all,We’re hosting a one day, free technical event in Redmond on May 18, 2012 intended for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 with C++. Details: Location: Redmond WA, Microsoft campus, bldg 92. Date: May 18th, 2012 Time: 9 AM to 5 PM for sessions, Q&A and a small social event ...

Developing Windows Applications in C++ (Articles Series)

July 25, 2011 Jul 25, 2011 07/25/11

Visual CPP Team

(image) We got just published “Developing Windows Applications in C++”, an article series created by C++ Most Valuable Professional Kate Gregory. This material is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn how to write Windows applications. It won’t teach you C++, or how to use Windows as an end user. But if you know C...