NGraphics VS Win2D

NGraphics

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Win2D

• Alternative to SharpDX for 2D rendering?
  4 projects | /r/csharp | 18 Apr 2023

  For Windows only, Win2D!

• [WinUI] High level 2D rendering library
  4 projects | /r/csharp | 27 Mar 2023

  You're looking for Win2D: https://github.com/microsoft/Win2D. It's the official D2D WinRT wrapper, supports UWP and WinUI, has seamless interior with XAML, it's very easy to use and has extensive interop APIs (even more so once we ship the next release) that give you maximum control if needed. I recommend checking it out 🙂

• Easy-to-use 2D graphics libraries
  5 projects | /r/csharp | 7 Mar 2023
• WPF Begins its Long Goodbye
  9 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
• Wanting to create a GUI project, any help?
  1 project | /r/csharp | 23 Feb 2023

  Your easiest bet is likely to use Win2D within UWP or WinUI 3, then you could just throw a CanvasControl as the root of your UI and draw whatever you want on it, including setting individual pixels. Alternatively an easy way to do that could be to use a WriteableBitmap in WPF/UWP/WinUI 3 just drawn into a root Border or something, and then you can easily manipulate pixels there. Of course, that'd be slower and not CPU accelerated, but still viable depending on your exact use case.

• What library should I use to make basic 2D graphics which is simple to use and that is able to quickly draw a bunch of particles (circles) on the screen with updating positions every frame? (Not the best description ever. I explain it better in the post's text)
  4 projects | /r/csharp | 18 Feb 2023

  Alternatively you can also try Win2D, which is an official wrapper for D2D available for UWP and WinUI. You could use its CanvasAnimatedControl panel and then do your drawing from there, and just manually draw all your particles. The actual drawing would still be GPU accelerated, so it'd be relatively efficient (though less than using a custom shader, as you'd be queueing each particle from the CPU side).

• I've made a Video Editor for Windows 10, focused on Speed + Simplicity. Would you use it?
  2 projects | /r/software | 15 Feb 2021

  To make a long story short, it's a UWP app since I've used DirectX 11 for drawing on the screen. I use C#, and I needed win2d (https://github.com/microsoft/Win2D)

• What's the best way to develop something with GUI in C#?
  2 projects | /r/csharp | 25 Jan 2021

  Universal Windows Platform was introduced as the new hotness, but in my personal experience lacks a number of features from WPF I couldn't part with. It seems to have flopped a bit outside of applications developed by Microsoft. Projects that I though would bring features I really wanted (like win2d: GitHub - microsoft/Win2D) seem to have lost support. I'd hold off on this.