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Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration. It is available to C#, C++ and VB developers writing apps for the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). It utilizes the power of Direct2D, and integrates seamlessly with XAML and CoreWindow.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-09-05 · latest 2024-06-15

Mentions per year 5 mentions · busiest year 2015 (2)
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  1. There are*: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET , https://github.com/terrafx and https://github.com/microsoft/Win2D Now, I don't know (or care, to be fair) about the internal aspect of the culture on what is in vogue in various MSFT teams,…
  2. …does not maintain an up-to-date C#/.NET library for Direct2D. They do for Direct2D on UWP, https://github.com/Microsoft/Win2D
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    Win2D: new 2D drawing framework for Win 8.1/10
    story by AdeptusAquinas · 2015-05-01 · 1 comment
  4. …cheap, fully-featured engines such as Unity. Meanwhile, Win2D, by the creator of XNA, is on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/Win2D
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    Introducing Win2D – GPU accelerated 2D graphics programming in the WinRT
    story by cledet · 2014-09-05 · 0 comments