SharpDX is built with a custom tool called SharpGen able to generate automatically a .NET API directly from the DirectX SDK headers, thus allowing a tight mapping with the native API while taking advantages of the great strength of the .Net ecosystem.
SharpDX is fully supporting all Windows platforms including latest Windows 8 Metro and Windows Phone 8. Easily develop multimedia applications for desktop, WinRT and Windows Phone with the same API!
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SharpDX is a free and active open-source project that is delivering a full-featured Managed DirectX API that includes support for Direct3D9 & Ex, Direct3D10, Direct3D10.1, Direct3D11, Direct3D11.1 (Win8 only), DirectCompute, Direct2D1, Direct2D1.1 (Win8 only), DirectWrite, WIC, D3DCompiler, DXGI, DXGI 1.1, DXGI 1.2 (Win8 only), DirectSound 8, XAudio2, XAPO, XACT3, X3DAudio, DirectInput 8, XInput and RawInput.
SharpDX supports all Windows OS and .NET Framework, including development for the latest Windows 8 Metro and Windows Phone 8!
You can download binaries or build your own binaries directly from the sourcecode available from a git repository.
SharpDX is now coming with a documentation repository - under construction and a detailled Class Library Reference with a helpful cross referencing managed to unmanaged API.
A community section is opened for contributions, samples and tutorials, as well as a dedicated forum to discuss about SharpDX.
SharpDX is being used by several companies, indies developers to make games, advanced rendering or multimedia applications.
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SharpDX needs your vote for DllImport on WP8!
- SharpDX cannot provide a true "Portable Class Library" that would allow us to use the same SharpDX assemblies from .NET Desktop, .NET on WinRT and .NET on WP8, providing a much better experience when developing cross-platform DirectX application in .NET.
- Because current SharpDX assemblies for WP8 are compiled for x86 and ARM there is no "AnyCpu" support for SharpDX on WP8 Platform. This also means that all dependent project on SharpDX on WP8 are forced to be compiled and linked for x86 and ARM, which makes the build and debug experience extremelly laborious to handle (for example, switch between x86 and ARM when switching between real device phone and emulator... etc.)
In order to help SharpDX - and all projects using it - even if you are not interested in Windows Phone 8 development, It would be extremely helpful if you could vote for this issue to be resolved at connect feedback: Add DllImport support for .NET in Windows Phone 8
Thanks for your support!
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SharpDX needs your vote for SIMD for .NET
The lack of SIMD is forcing every projects to develop its own set of vector types (and calculations), making interop between them quite laborious and inefficient. The rise of mobile platforms is giving more reasons to have such a functionality backed in .NET.
If you love C#/.NET and all the cool stuffs around DirectX, please, please, vote for this to be resolved at connect feedback: Add Builtin SIMD support for .NET and talk about this issue around you!
Thanks for your support!
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