Further Information

For the latest about Microsoft DirectX, see the MSDN DirectX  Web site. This site contains DirectX downloads, the latest DirectX documentation, the "Driving DirectX" column, links to the DirectX newsgroups, and more.

See Further Information on 3-D Graphics for a list of suggested references on three-dimensional computer graphics and Microsoft Direct3D.

You can find more information about sound and music discussed throughout the DirectX documentation, as well as information about Microsoft Windows programming in general, in the following sources.

• Begault, Durand R. 3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia. Academic Press, 1994.
• Dodge, Charles, and Thomas A. Jerse. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. Second ed. Schirmer Books, 1997.
• Kientzle, Tim. A Programmer's Guide to Sound. Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1998.

Additional sources for the concepts and terms associated with Component Object Model (COM) can be found in the following sources:

• Brockschmidt, Kraig. Inside OLE 2. Second ed. Microsoft Press, 1995.
• Rogerson, Dale E. Inside COM. Microsoft Press, 1997.