找不到参考 Microsoft.DirectX

Question

I am VERY new to DirectX. I have made a small Kinect-based wpf application in C#, and I want to use DirectX APIs for working with 3D models and Kinect.

I have done a lot of search, but am still unable to find the reference to Microsoft.DirectX.

I right click references -> Add Reference. Then I browse to C:\\Windows\\Microsoft .NET\\ but there is no folder named DirectX or similar.

And that's why when I write

using Microsoft.DirectX;

it gives me an error

The type or namespace name 'DirectX' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft'(are you missing an assembly reference?)

Please explain to me where I can find the assembly reference and add it in the project??

I am using Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10, 64 bit

Answer 1

Assuming you are trying to use a .NET wrapper for DirectX, that namespace was available as part of DirectX 9.0 for Managed Code , which was abandoned by Microsoft around a decade ago in favor of XNA, which is also now abandoned. I forget whether XNA kept the Microsoft.DirectX namespace. There was also managed DirectX support on Windows Phone for a while. These days if you want a managed wrapper for DirectX on Windows desktop, your best bet is probably SharpDX , which is still under active development. (Be aware, though, that SharpDX doesn't use the same class structure as Managed DirectX or XNA, so whatever documentation you have that's referencing Microsoft.DirectX probably won't be much use to you when working with SharpDX.)