XNA, Managed DirectX and Game Programming

Good bye Managed DirectX 2 (MDX2)

"The MDX 2.0 beta libraries will cease to function after October 5th, 2006.  That's 15 days from now.", David Weller...

David Weller has made a post today which details the furtue of Managed DirectX 2.0. Thos who are currently using the system and have products that they plan to release that use the MDX2 system really need to read this post. Note that the Managed DirectX 2.0 system is and allways has been only a beta release and should not be used for systems or applications that are planned for production.

Options Moving Forward... from Davids Blog post,

1. Revert your MDX 2.0 dependencies back to MDX 1.1.  This is by-far the easiest approach, and the MDX 1.1 libraries aren't going to "disappear" for a long time.  In addition, they work just fine with the .NET 2.0 runtime (many people thought that you needed to migrate to MDX 2.0 in order to run in the .NET 2.0 runtime, but that was nowhere near the truth).
2. Migrate your application to the XNA Framework, using the handy migration guide published by Rick Hoskinson (Caveat: It's aimed at MDX 1.1, so there's some jiggling you have to do)

For those that are going to start converting their code please remember that you can always ask questions in the XNA Forums on the MSDN Site, The guys there are more then willing to help.