How To Crank Up simple WINAPI + OpenGL app window? ^_^

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How To Crank Up simple WINAPI + OpenGL app window? ^_^
How to get in WINAPI from C# ?

Posted 29-Jan-15 4:06am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-29T04:37:00

Windows API is already represented in .NET FCL by the library System.Windows.Forms:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

If something else is needed, it is done through P/Invoke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Invocation_Services[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vcmxspec/html/vcmg_PlatformInvocationServices.asp[^].

Using P/Invoke for direct access to OS is best avoided, because it can greatly compromise platform compatibility. In almost all cases, all you may need from the OS API is already included in .NET FCL in the most compatible way. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Class_Library[^].

OpenGL is wrapped, in particular, in 3rd-party open-source products OpenTK and SharpGL:
http://www.opentk.com[^],
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentk[^],
http://sharpgl.codeplex.com[^].

See also these CodeProject articles:
OpenGL in .NET - Getting Started[^],
SharpGL: A C# OpenGL Class Library[^].

—SA