Unmanaged DX in C#. Possible?
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Is it possible to use unmanaged DX calls (using P/Invoke or whatever) in C#?
I ask because I know some things can't be done in C# (such as installing certain global hooks).
SlimDX doesn't work for me, and I know that the managed DirectX library has been unsupported for a while in favor of the XNA library.
Thanks,
~FenixRoA
It's kind of a mess, but it's possible. Here are the details. The first link describes some COM stuff and how to deal with it in C++, and the second details how to deal with COM from C#.
MSDN :: Programming DirectX with COM
MSDN :: COM Interop Part 1: C# Client
That said, if you want to do most of your stuff in C#+XNA and some of the stuff you can't normally do in C++, you can make a C++/CLI DLL that your C# can use, far more easily than using DirectX COM from C#.
MSDN :: Programming DirectX with COM
MSDN :: COM Interop Part 1: C# Client
That said, if you want to do most of your stuff in C#+XNA and some of the stuff you can't normally do in C++, you can make a C++/CLI DLL that your C# can use, far more easily than using DirectX COM from C#.
Why exactly wouldn't SlimDX work for you? Its implimented with the same P/Invoke you'd be doing yourself, but its already written and quite complete. The guys behind it have already invested significant amounts of time (man-years, I'm sure) learning all the ins and outs of com inter-op, come up with a consistent API, and done all the grunt-work. Is there a real basis for your avoiding it, or is there some mis-assumption here?
Quote:Original post by FenixRoAI think this is the problem you should be solving, rather than trying to write your own wrapper (after all, SlimDX is just a wrapper around native DirectX as well). Why doesn't it work?
SlimDX doesn't work for me
Since SlimDX is doing what you want and it's open source, you can modify it to your liking or just take what you need from it. (Especially since it's MIT licensed.)
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