Silk.NET.Windowing 2.23.0

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Silk.NET is your one-stop-shop for high-speed .NET multimedia, graphics, and compute; providing bindings to popular low-level APIs such as OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX.

Use Silk.NET to spruce up applications with cross-platform 3D graphics, audio, compute and haptics!

Silk.NET works on any .NET Standard 2.0 compliant platform, including .NET 6.0, Xamarin, .NET Framework 4.6.1+, and .NET Core 2.0+.

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About This Package

This package contains Silk.NET's high-level, cross-platform windowing abstractions.

Features

Performance

Having poured lots of hours into examining generated C# code and its JIT assembly, you can count on us to deliver blazing fast bindings with negligible overhead induced by Silk.NET!

Up-to-date

With an efficient bindings regeneration mechanism, we are committed to ensuring our bindings reflect the latest specifications with frequent updates generated straight from the upstream sources.

High-level utilities

In addition to providing high-speed, direct, and transparent bindings, we provide high-level utilities and wrappers to maximise productivity in common workloads such as platform-agnostic abstractions around Windowing and Input, bringing your apps to a vast number of platforms without changing a single line!

Good-to-go

Silk.NET caters for anything you could need in swift development of multimedia, graphics, compute applications. Silk.NET is an all-in-one solution, complete with Graphics, Compute, Audio, Input, and Windowing.

Funding

Silk.NET requires significant effort to maintain, as such we greatly appreciate any financial support you are able to provide!

This helps ensure Silk.NET's long term viability, and to help support the developers who maintain Silk.NET in their free time. Kai is accepting GitHub Sponsorships.

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Licensing and governance

Silk.NET is distributed under the very permissive MIT/X11 license and all dependencies are distributed under MIT-compatible licenses.

Silk.NET is a .NET Foundation project, and has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

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Cube.Driver.Vulkan
The Vulkan package acts as a wrapper for Vulkan, utilizing Silk.Net for low-level binding. This package abstracts various functionalities, including an input system for mouse, keyboard, and gamepad, simplifying user interaction within the engine. Additionally, it includes a timer class for tracking game time, frames per second (FPS), and delta time, providing essential tools for performance monitoring and game loop management.
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Silk.NET.Windowing.Desktop
Silk.NET is a high-speed, advanced library, providing bindings to popular low-level APIs such as OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, GLFW, and Vulkan.
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Silk.NET Winter 2025 Update - Added missing GenerateBoundingBoxes flag in Assimp. (thanks @LittleCodingFox) - Added full coverage of AV1 and VP9 support in Vulkan Video bindings. - Updated to Direct3D 12 Agility SDK 1.618.5. - Updated to DirectStorage 1.3.0. - Updated to Windows SDK 10.26100. - Updated to Vulkan 1.4.336. - Updated to OpenXR 1.1.54. - Updated to Assimp 6.0.2. - Updated to MoltenVK 1.4.1. - Updated to OpenAL Soft 1.24.3. - Updated to latest ANGLE. - Updated to latest OpenGL specifications. - Updated to latest OpenCL specifications. - Updated to SDL 2.32.10 binaries. - Updated dependency versions, reducing the number of overrides required to satisfy vulnerability scans. - Removed manual `[RequiresLocationAttribute] in` in favour `ref readonly`. - Fixed UTF-8 string marshalling for a specific OpenGL ShaderSource overload. - Fixed erroneous mapping of the LeftDown joystick hat on the GLFW backend. (thanks @Spacelord-XaN) - Fixed string SilkMarshal methods not respecting the platform-native definition of wide characters. (thanks @Exanite) - Fixed PtrToStringArray ignoring encoding parameter. (thanks @Exanite) - Fixed Android native library duplication, resulting in Android build failures. - Fixed a marshalling exception when calling DelegateToPtr in some circumstances. (primarily NativeAOT, thanks @aquagoose) - Fixed UTF-8 characters not being accepted in OpenAL bindings. (thanks @Morilli) - Fixed native libraries not loading property on Pop!_OS. (thanks @WNP78) - Fixed inconsistencies and bugs across matrices of different sizes. (thanks @otac0n) - Fixed NullReferenceException in WGL. (thanks @Morilli) - Fixed unknown key names resulting in an ImGui extension crash. (thanks @Tweety-Lab) - Fixed a minor memory leak in GlfwPlatform/SdlPlatform IsApplicable checks. (thanks @Aragas) - Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements. The Silk.NET team are hard at work on 3.0, with 2.X updates continuing with the support of contributors and sponsors. Learn more at https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET

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