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• Raptor commented  ·  March 2, 2013 11:30 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  DLL of DirectWrite is included in WP8 process. But why not provide us the API?

• Simon commented  ·  December 17, 2012 9:33 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes, please make direct2d and directwrite available, so we can develop apps for wp8

• Pete commented  ·  December 6, 2012 3:00 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Apparently D2D is there for native code ... http://kennykerr.ca/2012/12/01/windows-phone-and-direct2d/

• kotsoft commented  ·  December 4, 2012 1:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I too would like to see Direct2D on WP8. Lack of D2D caught me off guard as I had used it extensively in the Windows 8 version of my app and then I had to proceed to redo the entire interface. Eventually I settled on C#, XAML and C++ but that does not give me everything I need. I need high quality vector rendering including curves, and I also would like it to be immediate mode as I need to do per frame animation. I can do fast per frame animation in D3D, but it is overkill for what I need to do.

• Charles Humphrey commented  ·  November 28, 2012 6:52 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would greatly aid cross platform support, which MS seems to have lost a bit of focus on of late, but I understand it must be a tough task keeping all your ducks in a row :S

• RobertHF commented  ·  November 28, 2012 5:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I'm developing a WinRT component for use in a Windows Store app. The component is written in C++ and makes heavy use of both Direct3D and Direct2D. It would be great to be able to port it to Windows phone using the same graphics APIs.

• Pete commented  ·  November 28, 2012 5:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with Flavio's comment!

• Flavio commented  ·  November 28, 2012 4:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It doesn't make sense to have different APIs for the phone and tablet platforms. The iPad and iPhone have the 99% code and resources compatibility, and they are the market leaders, does Microsoft thinks it can do better than Apple by making developers wasting time running around changing APIs?

• Philippe Monteil commented  ·  November 1, 2012 10:00 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Thanks for your answer.

  I have noticed that it is now possible to inject DirectX produced surfaces in an XAML UI,
  and this is _very_ good news: :-)!

  I have already tested the connexion between WP8 and SharpDX and I really appreciate not to be forced to use C++ to exploit DirectX., a key resource for our developments.

  Knowing that you will keep improving the consistency between W8 and WP8, and probably add support for D3D to the latter, is also very positive.

• mithril commented  ·  October 30, 2012 1:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  WP8 has No low level APIs to create experiences like Word/Powerpoint/PDF readers/etc. This greatly limits what we ca do with the platform because not everybody wants to make RSS readers.

• Daniel commented  ·  August 6, 2012 2:17 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  IE10 on WP8 needs D2D, DirectWrite, WIC and MediaFoundation. This means that ALL of these technologies will be there already. PLEASE, make them also available to us developers!

• Anonymous commented  ·  July 26, 2012 8:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Why not ?

• Pete commented  ·  July 6, 2012 6:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  And also for DirectWrite ...

• Philippe Monteil commented  ·  June 27, 2012 5:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  also, please make sure that SharpDX can be adapted to WP8, so as to provide a complete and effective access to the graphics API from .Net.