C++/C# interop for Windows (desktop) applications using WinRT

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  • TextLayoutSampler

    Utility to display text via multiple Windows API's simultaneously (D2D, DWrite, GDI, GDI+).

  • All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

  • FontSetViewer

    Utility to display items in an IDWriteFontSet and browse their name strings and preview. (Windows GUI exe)

  • All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Onnx2Text

    Converts an ONNX ML model protobuf from/to text, or tensor from/to text/CSV/raw data. (Windows command line tool)

  • All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

  • LunaSvgSampleTest

    Small app to test LunaSvg and load/display SVG files

  • All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

  • BiNums

    Binary numbers - command line tool displays various numeric formats in binary and vice versa.

  • All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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