DirectX 9.0 for Managed Code (its out already) (Score 5, Informative)

DirectX 9.0 for Managed Code
(its out already)

With DirectX 9.0, developers can take advantage of DirectX multimedia functionality and hardware acceleration while using managed code. Managed DirectX enables access to most of the original unmanaged DirectX functionality. The following are the managed code languages supported by DirectX 9.0 and documented in the software development kit (SDK).

Microsoft Visual C#(TM)
Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET
Microsoft Visual C++®
Microsoft JScript® .NET

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