• 10x times faster and smaller than default System Serialization and Xml Serialization.
• Supports for all primitive types, array/List<T>/Dictionary of primitive types, custom data via (struct or class) and array/List/Dictionary of custom data.
• Optimized binary format, data serialized to the strict minimum.
• Should be compatible with Win8/WinRT, Desktop.
• Not reflection based serializer, but fully compile time serializer.
• Format could be readback from C/C++.

The driver type is required when calling or D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain.

For an overview of the capabilities of each feature level, see Overview For Each Feature Level.

For information about limitations creating nonhardware-type devices on certain feature levels, see Limitations Creating WARP and Reference Devices.

Use the method and a value from to bind a primitive topology to the input-assembler stage. Use the method to retrieve the primitive topology for the input-assembler stage.

The following diagram shows the various primitive types for a geometry shader object.

A -typed value is specified in the ViewDimension member of the structure or the Dimension member of the structure.

An is obtained by calling D3D10CreateBlob.

The ID3DBlob interface is type defined in the D3DCommon.h header file as a interface, which is fully defined in the D3DCommon.h header file. ID3DBlob is version neutral and can be used in code for any Direct3D version.

Blobs can be used as a data buffer, storing vertex, adjacency, and material information during mesh optimization and loading operations. Also, these objects are used to return object code and error messages in APIs that compile vertex, geometry and pixel shaders.

You can use shader macros in your shaders. The structure defines a single shader macro as shown in the following example:

  Shader_Macros[1] = { "zero", "0"  };	
            

The following shader or effect creation functions take an array of shader macros as an input parameter:

• D3D10CompileShader
• D3DX10CreateEffectFromFile
• D3DX10PreprocessShaderFromFile
• D3DX11CreateAsyncShaderPreprocessProcessor

The IAudioClient::Initialize and IAudioClient::IsFormatSupported methods use the constants defined in the enumeration.

In shared mode, the client can share the audio endpoint device with clients that run in other user-mode processes. The audio engine always supports formats for client streams that match the engine's mix format. In addition, the audio engine might support another format if the Windows audio service can insert system effects into the client stream to convert the client format to the mix format.

In exclusive mode, the Windows audio service attempts to establish a connection in which the client has exclusive access to the audio endpoint device. In this mode, the audio engine inserts no system effects into the local stream to aid in the creation of the connection point. Either the audio device can handle the specified format directly or the method fails.

For more information about shared-mode and exclusive-mode streams, see User-Mode Audio Components.

When a client opens a session by assigning the first stream to the session (by calling the IAudioClient::Initialize method), the initial session state is inactive. The session state changes from inactive to active when a stream in the session begins running (because the client has called the IAudioClient::Start method). The session changes from active to inactive when the client stops the last running stream in the session (by calling the IAudioClient::Stop method). The session state changes to expired when the client destroys the last stream in the session by releasing all references to the stream object.

The system volume-control program, Sndvol, displays volume controls for both active and inactive sessions. Sndvol stops displaying the volume control for a session when the session state changes to expired. For more information about Sndvol, see Audio Sessions.

The IAudioSessionControl::GetState and IAudioSessionEvents::OnStateChanged methods use the constants defined in the AudioSessionState enumeration.

For more information about session states, see Audio Sessions.