* Shows how to use DirectX from C# - the new language for the .NET platform. This makes DirectX both easier and safer to use, and makes this book unique from among every other DirectX book available. * Focuses on programmers using DirectX instead of trying to teach DirectX. * DirectX is becoming the premier platform for game/3D high performance graphics on Windows.
.. filled with rather dated listings of elementary 3d game engine code; worth anything if you are looking to get familiar with vocabulary, very basics and happen to see it collecting dust at someones shelf, otherwise skip (albeit I don't know alternative, yet)