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DirectX 8 and VB.NET Development [Paperback]

Keith Sink (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (6 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0672322250
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672322259
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 381,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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DirectX 8 and Visual Basic Development fills an unmet need in the marketplace as the first book to explain how to use Visual Basic .NET and DirectX 8 to create sophisticated multi-media applications. Topics include networked games, 3D multimedia applications, enable Force Feedback joystick devices in their own applications, multimedia applications that allow for multiple user input devices, and multimedia applications that use music and sound. Real world examples explain how to use these tools effectively, professionally, and quickly.

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marketplace as the first book to explain how to use VB.NET and DirectX 8 to create sophisticated multi- media applications. Topics include networked games, 3D multimedia applications, enable Force Feedback joystick devices in their own applications, multimedia applications that allow for multiple user input devices, and multimedia applications that use music and sound. Real world examples explain how to use these tools effectively, professionally, and quickly.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This book is written very well and a pleasure to read if you want to learn about basic 3D Concepts such as Rendering Piplines, 3D Object and World Space, Co-ordinate systems, how to set a direct 3d game up using VB 6.

Its a good book... But completely useless to me because there is very little VB.NET stuff in it.

Let me explain:- I bought this book because the boiler plate from the publisher states that this book contains code for programming Direct X in VB.NET. It doesn't. It is fundamentally a direct X and VB 6 book with the occasional bit of 'equivalent code in VB.NET' sections added at the end. Unfortunately, the publisher site hasn't got any of these .net examples on their web site either and the most significant chapters on directx graphics don't have any .net stuff at all.

Useless to me as I already know a lot of the general 3S concepts.

This is a good book if you want to write in VB 6 and have only a basic understanding of 3D work. If you want it for .Net then my advice is to stay away.

I am a little anoyed about the publishers references to .Net as this is quite clearly just a big cashing in exercise.
Tim

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This by far the best book on the subject I have read. It is clear, well-written, interesting and easy to understand. It provides everything a budding multimedia programmer/game developer needs if they are using visual basic and in a well thought out manner.

It also explains everything you do and why you do it, unlike so many other books on DirectX programming. A valuable resource and organised in such a way so that it can be used as a reference once you have learnt from it.

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If you're even interested in this subject area then whether you should have this book isn't really up for debate. There's so little written on it that anything with any sort of concrete info specific to directx and VB should be grabbed with both hands, and that definitely includes this book.

It gives good coverage of the various objects and does explain the basics pretty well of how stuff hangs together.

What it doesn't really do is give much by way of examples or inspiration of how you might combine these objects to create the truly stunning things you actually *can* create with them once you get your head round the subject.

Nonetheless if this is a subject you're working in it's definitely a good reference book to have so don't hesitate.
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