SharpDX VS WIC

Compare SharpDX vs WIC and see what are their differences.

WIC

A COM interop library for .NET that makes Windows Imaging Component (WIC) available to managed code. (by stakx)
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SharpDX WIC
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0.0 10.0
about 5 years ago almost 5 years ago
C# C#
Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Alexandre Mutel MIT License
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SharpDX

Posts with mentions or reviews of SharpDX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-09.
  • Seriously WTF C++?
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 9 Sep 2022
    There are quite a lot actually, even if we ignore engines and frameworks (though some of them are quite low level). Some of the biggest are Silk.NET, Vortice.Windows, SharpDX (the last one is dead but it still should work well).
  • What's the fastest way to get pixel data from a Bitmap?
    6 projects | /r/csharp | 29 Sep 2021
    In C#, that means you'll need something like Vortice.Windows or Silk.NET. If you just want WIC (and not a bunch of DirectX stuff, there's also a plain old WIC interop library. And if you don't mind a well-tested, yet end-of-life library, there's SharpDX.

WIC

Posts with mentions or reviews of WIC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-29.
  • What's the fastest way to get pixel data from a Bitmap?
    6 projects | /r/csharp | 29 Sep 2021
    In C#, that means you'll need something like Vortice.Windows or Silk.NET. If you just want WIC (and not a bunch of DirectX stuff, there's also a plain old WIC interop library. And if you don't mind a well-tested, yet end-of-life library, there's SharpDX.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SharpDX and WIC you can also consider the following projects:

Vortice.Windows - .NET bindings for Direct3D12, Direct3D11, WIC, Direct2D1, XInput, XAudio, X3DAudio, DXC, Direct3D9 and DirectInput.

terrafx.interop.windows - Interop bindings for Windows.

SlimDX - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/slimdx

DirectN - Direct interop Code for .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET 5+ : DXGI, WIC, DirectX 9 to 12, Direct2D, Direct Write, Direct Composition, Media Foundation, WASAPI, CodecAPI, GDI, Spatial Audio, DVD, Windows Media Player, UWP DXInterop, WinUI3, etc.

OpenCvSharp - OpenCV wrapper for .NET

Silk.NET - The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about.

TerraFX - A framework for developing multimedia-based applications.

Helix Toolkit - Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET.

ComputeSharp - A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀