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LearnOpenGL
Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
A lot of people implement their GUI for graphical applications using OpenGL itself for rendering, using libraries such as Nuklear or Dear ImGui. Doing this means you can more easily style and hack your GUI, but it also might be somewhat slower and you won't get the native feel of WPF.
A lot of people implement their GUI for graphical applications using OpenGL itself for rendering, using libraries such as Nuklear or Dear ImGui. Doing this means you can more easily style and hack your GUI, but it also might be somewhat slower and you won't get the native feel of WPF.
Unfortunately Google just isn't bringing that much up for anything like GLAD for C#, just this .NET package and this old reddit thread which just says "OpenTK is all there really is".
Even in C++, you have to generate the right OpenGL headers for the GL version you want to use. I use GLAD, but sadly I don't see an option to use it for C# bindings. There isn't really any magic involved, though; OpenGL publishes machine-readable lists of C functions and symbols so just about any software can access the full power of OpenGL using those (assuming their video drivers are up to snuff). There is also a small bit of code needed to create the GL context but it's pretty simple.
You can also embed OpenGL into WPF via GLWpfControl (https://github.com/opentk/GLWpfControl) and keep all your actual controls in WPF if you want...
I recommend https://learnopengl.com/ as well if you want to learn C++ graphics programming with OpenGL. If you already know all the graphics concepts in C# this should not be that hard.