Download DirectX Software Development Kit from Official Microsoft Download Center

• This DirectX SDK release contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, documentation, and runtime debug files for x64 and x86 platforms. This release also include a public pre-release Direct3D 10.
  
  For additional information please see Microsoft DirectX Developer Center along with reviewing the Readme for last-minute updates.

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• • Using Managed DirectX ( MDX ) requires both Visual Studio .NET and the .NET framework for development. To run MDX .NET applications, you must install the .NET Framework.