Installation

Starting with 3.0.0 version, SharpDX assemblies are compiled into two profiles:

• .NET 4.5+ for Desktop App.
• PCL .NET 4.6+ for Store Apps, CoreCLR or PCL libraries.

Note that depending on the compilation profile, some DirectX APIs are not available (see section Supported DirectX APIs per platform for more details)

Binary assemblies are distributed in two forms:

1. Nuget: Simply browse the SharpDX component you want to using the menu Manage Nuget Packages and nuget will resolve all the assembly dependencies automatically
   • Depending on the type of your project (Desktop, StoreApps, or PCL lib), Nuget will automatically select the correct version (.NET 4.5 or PCL .NET 4.6+)
   • Thanks to nuget, dependencies between assemblies are automatically resolved
2. Zip: Download the zip/self-extract SharpDX-SDK-x.y.z.exe archive attached to a each x.y.z release from the releases page. You need to add the correct assemblies and dependencies to your project manually. The archive contains
   • a Bin\Desktop folder with assemblies for .NET 4.5+ Desktop Apps
   • a Bin\StoreApp folder with assemblies for PCL .NET 4.6+

Supported DirectX APIs per platform

The following table described which DirectX API is accessible on each platform:

DirectX API	Desktop	Store - UWP - PCL
Direct3D9	Yes	-
Direct3D10.x	Yes1	-
Direct3D11.x	Yes	Yes
Direct3D12.x	Yes	Yes
D3DCompiler	Yes	Yes
Direct2D1.x	Yes	Yes
DirectWrite.x	Yes	Yes
DirectComposition	Yes	-
DirectManipulation	Yes	-
DXGI1.x	Yes	Yes
XAudio2	Yes	Yes
MediaFoundation	Yes	Yes*
DirectInput	Yes	-
DirectSound	Yes	-
RawInput	Yes	-
XInput	Yes	Yes
XAct3	Yes1	-
WIC	Yes	Yes

_{¹ Available only on previous 2.6.3 release}