Support c#

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Gubka

Hello Adam! We are interesting in Ultralight. When are you planning to add support c#? Will it be this year? Thank you,

Adam

Yes! I have started work on the bindings however exposing the API to C# is not exactly simple because we currently require a GPU context to render all geometry-- for example, C#/.NET allows some DirectX interop so it's possible to draw DirectX surfaces into XAML UI (I've already finished a Direct3D driver) however no such support exists in C#/Mono so another solution is needed.

The alternative is to do what I did previously in Awesomium-- render Views directly to a pixel-buffer on the CPU and pass a platform-agnostic BGRA pixel-buffer to C# (offers most flexibility, works even offscreen and headless. Just lose ability to use GPU hardware).

I'm currently working with SwiftShader (translates OpenGL ES calls / shader code to parallel CPU code) to see if I can accomplish this.

JimHoux

Does this issue have any affect on the potential for Unity support since Unity uses its own C# runtime?

Also, is there any progress? Its pretty cool that you're trying to support Mono. If you get the solution you're describing working, I suppose you could use Ultralight on pretty much every single platform with a C# application...including mobile devices? You'd just need to provide a platform-specific window for context and then display the Ultralight pixel buffer in it, correct?

I know a lot of people are flat-out sick of flakiness (and Microsoft's attitude) with WPF and UWP, and they are wondering why even use platform-specific tools anyway if they can find something else.