Rendering with Direct3D - Direct3D Rendering - page 41

How to do it…

Here, we will walk through the steps necessary to work with the sample rendering framework.

1. Add a reference to Common.csproj within your Direct3D application project.
2. In addition to the SharpDX References we added to our project in the Building a
Direct3D 11 application with C# and SharpDX recipe in Chapter 1 , Getting Started
with Direct3D , we will now also include .\External\bin\SharpDX.Direct2D1.
dll for supporting 2D text rendering. References to System.Drawing and
System.Windows.Forms are also required for desktop applications.
3. Create a new class file that will house a descendent of the
D3DApplicationDesktop class. Let's call this new class D3DApp . The following
code snippet shows the class declaration and the required using directives:
using System;
...
using System.Windows.Forms;

// SharpDX namespaces
using SharpDX;
using SharpDX.DXGI;
using SharpDX.Direct3D11;

using Common;

// Resolve class name conflicts by explicitly stating
// which class they refer to:
using Buffer = SharpDX.Direct3D11.Buffer;
...
public class D3DApp : D3DApplicationDesktop
{
public PrimitivesApp(System.Windows.Forms.Form window)
: base(window)
{ }
...
}

4. Apart from the constructor shown previously, our D3DApp class must also implement

the public void Run() method for the abstract D3DApplicationDesktop
class. This will typically contain the main application message loop and rendering
loop like the following code snippet:
public override void Run()
{