DX .NET, a fork of SharpDX, is free software allowing the development of high performance game, 2D and 3D graphics rendering as well as realtime sound application.
One of the assumptions of the fork was to cut it off from other libraries and add the generated C++ headers to the code, so that compilation is not dependent on any libraries. DX .NET uses only the capabilities of the .NET platform.
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| Name | Framework | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DXNET The core assembly providing infrastructure for all managed DirectX API. |
.NET 6 |  |
| DXNET.Animation Assembly providing DirectX - Animation managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.D3DCompiler Managed Direct3D Compiler API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Desktop Assembly providing APIs related to Desktop platform. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct2D1 Assembly provides managed API for DXNET.Direct2D1, DXNET.DirectWrite and DXNET.WIC. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct3D9 Assembly providing DirectX - Direct3D9 managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct3D10 Assembly providing DirectX - Direct3D10 and Direct3D10.1 managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct3D11 Assembly providing DirectX - Direct3D11, Direct3D11.1 and Effects11 managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct3D11.Effects Assembly providing DirectX - Effects11 managed API for Direct3D11. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Direct3D12 Assembly providing DirectX - Direct3D12 managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.DirectComposition Assembly providing DirectX - DirectComposition managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.DirectInput Assembly providing DirectX - DirectInput managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.DirectManipulation Assembly providing DirectX - DirectManipulation managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.DirectSound Assembly providing DirectX - DirectSound managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.DXGI Assembly providing DirectX - DXGI managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.Mathematics Assembly providing DirectX - Mathematics managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.MediaFoundation Assembly providing DirectX - MediaFoundation managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.RawInput Assembly providing DirectX - RawInput managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.XAudio2 Assembly providing DirectX - XAudio2, X3DAudio and XAPO managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
| DXNET.XInput Assembly providing DirectX - XInput managed API. |
.NET 6 | |
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In order to compile DX .NET, you need to install Visual Studio 2022 or newer with the following workloads and components:
- Windows 10 SDK Component
- C# Development Workload
- .NET Core Cross Platform Development Workload
- .NET Framework 4.6 & 4.8 Development Workload
- .NET 5.0 & 6.0 Development Workload
Use Visual Studio 2022 and invoke the .sln.
Visual Studio
DXNET is an Open Source project. You are entitled to download and use the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition to build, run or develop for DXNET. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license, this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user.
DX .NET is free and open source software licensed under MIT License. You can use it in private and commercial projects. Keep in mind that you must include a copy of the license in your project.