I've finished the translation of the presentation that Diego and I did last November in the first Madrid Codecamp. Diego already posted the official url where you could download the ppt, but it was in spanish... and I said before that I will upload it to this blog when translated, but due to work overload and other activities at the usergroup it was completely impossible to me. So as I promised (here you have it, Dennis) here you can download the contents we created:

Introduction to Managed DirectX with C# 2.0 - Slides
Demoscene-style demo with source code
DirectX demos used during the presentation

So... enjoy them, and remember you will need the DirectX SDK to run and compile the samples.

It's getting closer to the CodeCamp day... I've received a couple of mails asking about more info, everything is getting closed now, so here is the info you asked for. The sessions & agenda will be:

Saturday - November, 19th

11:00 Welcome to the El Escorial camping
11:30 Graphic design applied to software. Windows Presentation Foundation.
13:00 Open source software as an alternative to commercial software

13:30 Lunch time

15:00 Windows Security: Rootkits
16:30 Building Shareware applications

17:00 Break

17:30 Geo Applications. GPS applied to software applications
19:00 Development for TabletPC and Mobile devices
20:30 Entrepreneurs. Steps to start a business solution.

21:00 The Last Supper

22:30 Game and Graphics development with Managed Direct X and C# 2.0

Sunday - November, 20th

9:30 Breakfast

10:30 Presentation of the brand new XBOX 360
11:30 Free time activities: Ginkana, Xbox, Football, Tennis, Arc, etc..
14:00 Retorn to Madrid downtown

If you would like to attend we still have some free space and beds... Contact me through the contact form of my blog and I'll send you the registration link. You have to act as fast as possible, because we have to close all the bungalows before this week.

Just remember everything is included, even round-trip buses from Madrid downtown to the camping at El Escorial... so enjoy a full weekend with us and 200 more of your closer mates.

The DirectX SDK Update October 2005 has been released. The main new feature is it native support for the .NET 2.0 CLR; eventhough I've already been playing with Visual C# Express and the August Update of DirectX and they seemed to feel comfortable one with each other.

I'll install this new release, and migrate my actual code for the Madrid Code Camp DirectX session to use this new release. Obviously I'll be providing the DirectX team the feedback they ask for; they deserve it for their hard work. I don't expect to have too much changes in my existing code, it's quite easy and simple yet.

Btw, I created a new category in my blog to support all the upcoming DirectX posts.

[via ZMan and Tom Miller]