Vortice.Windows is a collection of Win32 and UWP libraries with bindings support for DXGI, WIC, DirectWrite, Direct2D, Direct3D11 and Direct3D12.

This project was born as SharpDX was recently inactive and the aim is to have .net standard 2.0 API and usage of modern stuff like Unsafe and SharpGen.Runtime.

Library development, contributions and bugfixes by:

• Amer Koleci

SharpDX bindings where used for some platforms to understand how mapping work using SharpGenTools.

In order to compile, you need to install Visual Studio 2017 or newer with the components:

• Visual C++ Toolset Component
• Windows 10 - 1809 SDK (10.0.17763.0) Component
• .NET Core SDK