Graphics at the Core of Windows 8

Microsoft Confidential 3

2D Graphics 3D

Graphics

Segoe UIFonts, Text

Analysis, Layout

Image & Video

Decoding

HTML5, CSS3,

XAML, Direct2D

Direct3D

Segoe UIHTML5, CSS3,

XAML

WinRT, HTML5, XAML,

Player Framework

auto p = make_shared<Circle>(42);

shared_ptr<Shape> shape = loadShape();

shape.get(); // get the raw pointer

for_each(begin(vw), end(vw),

[&](shared_ptr<Circle>& s) {

if( s && *s == *p ) cout << “Match!”;

} );

Synchronous?

• App stays responsive to many requests

• Takes advantage of more CPUs

• Operations can be canceled

then

then

task<int> t([]()

{

return fib(40);

});

task<int> t2 = t.then([](){ return anotherTask(); });

t2.get(); // blocking, will wait until t2 is done

Return types

must match

• Set of language extensions and libraries to allow direct consumption and authoring of Windows Runtime types• Strongly-typed system for Windows Runtime

• Automatically reference counted

• Exception-based

• Deep integration with STL

• Well defined binary contract across module boundaries

Key Bindings Feature Summary

Data Types Ref class Reference type

Value class Value type

Interface class Interface

Property Property with get/set

Event Delegate property with

add/remove/raise

Delegate Type-safe function pointer

Generic Type-safe generics

Allocation Ref new Reference-counted allocation

Pointer &

Reference

^ Strong pointer (“hat” or “handle”)

demo

Initialize

• Called on

application

launch

• Register

application

events here

SetWindow

• OS assigned

CoreWindow to

your app

• Register

window events

here

Load

• Parameter tells

us from where

the app was

launched

Run

• Put your

rendering loop

in here

• <5 seconds to

get here to

start handling

events

Uninitialize

• Rarely executed

• Usually left

empty

demo

Complex 2D/3D graphics, text

Image effects

ISwapChainBackgroundPanelNative

panelNative->SetSwapChain(m_swapChain.Get());

http://aka.ms/vs3dkit

demo

demo