Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Starting with the Resource Class

The Resource class is relatively small, and is the base class for all resources in Direct3D, so it may be a good idea to start this section with a list of each method, and what it's intended to be used for. You will never actually create or use the Resource class itself, since it is an abstract class, but you may find yourself using these methods on your other resource classes. See Table 8.1 for the methods on the resource class:

Table 8.1. Resource Class Methods and Properties

PROPERTY OR METHOD	DESCRIPTION
Device	Read-only property that will return the device this resource was created with.
Type	Read-only property that returns the type of resource this is. Valid return values for this property are in the ResourceType ...