microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed
Microsoft 32-bit development newsgroup.
The room for Managed DirectX — the .NET bindings over the DirectX multimedia and graphics APIs — where game and visualisation developers worked through the interop layer between managed code and a natively COM-based interface.
It sits in the win32.programmer branch alongside the native DirectX rooms; the branch’s other surviving page in this directory is the Win32 WMI group.
Reading microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed (coverage varies by group and era).
- Open in a newsreader:
news:microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.managed— the original site offered exactly this link, and it still works if your system has a newsreader registered for thenews:scheme. - Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.