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December 8, 2021
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Today we are excited to announce the release of HLSL 2021! HLSL 2021 brings an assortment of new language features that we think will make shader authoring in HLSL more familiar and productive. Enabling HLSL 2021 is as easy as passing the `-HV 2021`, and you can immediately start enjoying all the new language features like...
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
Introduction In the last blog post, we introduced the cross platform open-source .NET Core Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Linux-Android tooling. Recently, we just released version 1.2 adding Perfetto support, which we will cover here. Perfetto is Google’s open-source tracing ecosystem covering Linux kernel tracing (and user-mode) and ...
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
We are excited to announce a public preview of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) 1.14 - with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online experiences.
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
We’re pleased to announce that we’re releasing our first Agility SDK preview today, Agility SDK version 1.700.10-preview! Head to Agility SDK Downloads to grab it. Agility SDK version 1.700.10-preview contains support for the following features: This is our first preview version of the Agility SDK, meaning that your ...
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
Introduction Today DirectX 12 provides APIs to support GPU acceleration for several video applications such as Video Decoding, Video Processing and Motion estimation as detailed in Direct3D 12 Video Overview. We are happy to announce that D3D12 has added a new Video Encode feature to the existing video API families, with a new set of ...
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
Good news for developers frustrated by confusing and inefficient D3D12 resource barriers, Enhanced Barriers are coming soon to D3D12, and are available now for experimental preview. Enhanced Barriers are a new set of D3D12 API’s that give developers independent control over GPU work synchronization, texture layout transitions, and cache ...
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
The recent Visual Studio 2022 Launch event was jam-packed with content, and that included updates on extensibility! Check out the VS 2022 Launch videos on extensibility that you may have missed!
December 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
12/8/21
As long as the wrapper can call it, you can implement it any way you like.
December 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
12/7/21
Introducing the Microsoft Performance Tools for Linux & Android
December 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
12/7/21
The .NET website is now available in languages other than English. Check it out!
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