SharpDX
SharpDX is an open-source platform independent Managed DirectX API for the .NET. This new API is directly auto-generated from DirectX C++ SDK Headers and the generated code is purely written in C# without using any C++/CLI assemblies, while still being able to achieve comparable performance.
The API naming convention has been kept as much as possible similar to the well known SlimDX API, which is currently using C++/CLI assemblies.
Also, the aim of SharpDX is to provide, on top of the lower APIs (Direct3D11, DXGI, D3DCompiler...), a higher API level similar to XNA but using latest DirectX technology.
The version 1.0 is fully supporting the following low-level DirectX APIs:
- Direct3D 10.0, 10.1, 11
- DXGI 1.0, 1.1
- DirectInput
- DirectSound, XAudio 2, XAPO
- Direct2D, DirectWrite
- D3DCompiler
See also
- Microsoft XNA
- Managed DirectX
- DirectX
- SlimDX
External links
- SharpDX
- Article about SharpDX in Russian
- Developer blog: Alexandre Mutel