Features

Win2D is work in progress and is evolving rapidly. The main things we have implemented so far are:

• Primitive drawing functions (line, rect, circle, etc.)
• Solid color, image, and gradient brushes
• Stroke styles (dotted, dashed)
• Text drawing and layouts
• Bitmap loading, drawing, and saving
• Render to texture
• Draw and manipulate arbitrarily complex geometric shapes (union, intersect, compute point on path, etc.)
• Image processing effects (blur, color adjustments, blend, etc.)
• Opacity masks
• Use layers to modify opacity or clip a group of drawing operations
• Draw to a surface image source or swapchain (hosted inside XAML or CoreWindow)
• XAML canvas control for simple initialization
• XAML animated control provides game loop programming model
• Vector and matrix math library
• NuGet packages make it easy to add Win2D to your project
• API reference documentation
• Interop to and from underlying native types (mix & match Win2D with native D2D)

Check out the product backlog to see what we plan to work on next.