I'm currently going through Direct3D Rendering Cookbook, 2nd Edition and in the first chapter it's constructing an instance of SharpDX.DXGI.SwapChain1 and providing a number of parameters, as per the SharpDX source code here. Now, I've installed the latest from the SharpDX website, and am referencing the assemblies in the DirectX11_1-net40 folder, and I'm also running on Windows 8.1 with DirectX 11.2 (which my video card supports), and yet in my code, the only exposed constructor I have access to is SwapChain1(IntPtr nativePtr). There is absolutely no sign of the constructors I linked above in the SharpDX source on Github.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Screenshot of the code from my Kindle Reader:

Screenshot of me not being able to write the above code on my machine:

Well I have my answer. The folks at SharpDX actually haven't updated the main download for a while. I need the DirectX11_2 build of SharpDX, which I kind of have to do myself, it seems.

Using the latest dev package 2.5.1 from the home page, this should be in the folder DirectX11_2-net40 and constructors are available from the DXGI assembly there.

[Edit] You don't need to build yourself, there is a build 2.5.1 package build updated to the latest changes[/Edit]

Ahah, thanks, I couldn't get anything to build anyway. Loading the SharpDX solution into Visual Studio 2013 had a tonne of errors. References to methods, identifiers and so forth that did not exist anywhere in the entire code SharpDX base.