Questions about Updating SDK. Visual C++ (.NET)

You shouldn't. But I can't say with 100% sure. You should update the SDK anyway.

thanks for the answer. Do SDK affects game graphics also?

I don't think so. I think these changes on the SDK are more on the features like compilers debugger etc...
And you shouldn't use them embedded on your application. Only for debbug purposes. So you should be fine

I see so if i update my DirectX9 codes to DirectX11 is it the one who handles graphics enhancements?

No, the driver handle those changes(If I got what u mean).

D3D 9 and D3D 11 has several differences and upgrading a D3D9 to D3D11 program will require more and less of work. Updating the SDK doesn't make your program to use D3D 11 automatically. The D3D11 API has several differences and you should look into it before starting to work with it.

However, you should be able to use the D3D9 interfaces with the newest SDK too.

Cheers!

thanks for the answer Such1 and kauna, now im just wondering how can i improve the game graphics smoothness. I have really no idea where it should update or something.

You mean you want to improve the FPS of your game? You have several ways to do that. But it depends a lot on what kind of game you have.
And on how much do you need to improve. Definetely DirectX 11 is faster than 9, but it is not as compatible.

now im just wondering how can i improve the game graphics smoothness

This is rather huge question in the sense that there are lots of things that affect performance.

There are several guide lines for typical scenarios such as:
- reduce drawcalls, state changes, shader changes, texture changes etc
- to reduce drawcalls you may and should use instancing

- if you are CPU bound (ie. you can't feed enough data/draw calls to your GPU) you'll have to look where to optimize your CPU usage

Cheers!

As others have said, this is a huge area for discussion.

There is no magic bullet that you can apply and suddenly get improved performance with reasonably little effort involved; your example of updating to a newer SDK will be much more likely to bring you bugfixes instead. Upgrading to a newer D3D version is going to involve a huge porting effort, and if you do a naive port you're going to end up putting in a LOT of work only to end up slower.

You're going to need to get your hands dirty for this.

What you have to do is get a known good profiler, profile your application, determine it's bottlenecks, and target optimizations at those areas. That on it's own is a big enough topic, but you can get some rough ballpark guesses if you've set things up to be reasonably modular; e.g. by commenting out your particle drawing calls and comparing times with and without particles you can get a feel for how much time you're spending in your particle system (this is just an example; things may be different in your own code). Do this for other subsystems of your renderer and you begin to get an idea of what the overall picture looks like. PIX is also a good tool for helping you know where time may be being wasted in a frame.

I'd also recommend that you read the MSDN article "Accurately Profiling Direct3D API Calls".

when you've done that, maybe come back with some more specific questions relating to individually identified bottlenecks and you'll be able to get better advice on how to tackle them.