GNU coding styles and standards
Reference standards Don’t in any circumstances refer to Unix source code for or during your...
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Category: Tutorials
Direct3D Retained mode sample
Over here I’ll shove in some basics, like coordinate systems, world and object coordinate systems, etc. For now I’ll assume you’re at least a little familiar with 3D programming. Blah blah blah, differences between immediate and retained mode, etc etc.
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DirectX Programming: A Sample for Microsoft DirectDraw
This is a very simple DirectDraw sample using Microsoft DirectX under Visual C++.
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Palettes, Gaming Concepts & Double Buffering in DirectX
Screen modes come in several flavours, based on how many bits are used to store the color of each pixel on the screen. Naturally, the more bits you use per pixel, the more colours you can display at once; but there is more data to move into graphics memory to update the screen.
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Direct X and its Components
One of the main purposes of DirectX is to provide a standard way of accessing many different proprietary hardware devices. DirectX is comprised of application programming interfaces (APIs) that are grouped into two classes: The DirectX Foundation layer and The DirectX Media layer. These APIs enable programs to directly access many of your computer”s hardware devices.
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Exception Handling in C# Applications
In C#, an exception is a runtime error or unexpected behavior that occurs during the execution of...
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Transitioning from C to C++: A Quick Guide for Novice Programmers
As we begin the study of C++ and object oriented programming, a few comments are in order to help you get started. Since the field of object oriented programming is probably new to you, you will find that there is a significant amount of new terminology for you to grasp. This is true of any new endeavor and you should be warned not to be intimidated by all of the new concepts.
Read MoreWorking with Namespaces in C#
Every application begins with a namespace in C# .NET that has the same name as the project. Of course, you can change the namespace to anything you like in order to maintain compatibility with other projects. For example we declared namespace Mycplus.CSharpBasics while taking an Overview of C#. We can write the whole application with in one namespace or we can declare multiple namespaces as needed in our project. The general syntax of declaring a namespace is
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