From Sasha's blog comes news of an MSDN Canada chat entitled Developing Games and Tools Using Managed DirectX. Answering your questions will be DirectX authors Tom Miller, David Weller and Alexandre Lobao along with some other Microsofties

So mark your calendars for January 13, 2005 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Pacific time

The ZMan will unfortunately be working his real job so I will have to read the transcripts after the fact. Maybe they will give the web site a plug!