v0.0.2 - Initial Public Preview

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Zenith.NET v0.0.2 - Initial Public Preview 🎉

We're excited to announce the first public preview of Zenith.NET — a modern, cross-platform graphics and compute library for .NET!

✨ Highlights

• Unified GPU API — A backend-agnostic abstraction layer for GPU programming
• Multiple Graphics Backends — DirectX12 and Vulkan support (Metal planned)
• UI Framework Integrations — Seamless integration with popular .NET UI frameworks
• AOT Compatible — Full support for Native AOT compilation

📦 Packages

Core

Package	Description
Zenith.NET	Core graphics abstraction library

Backends

Package	Description	Status
Zenith.NET.DirectX12	DirectX12 backend implementation	✅
Zenith.NET.Metal	Metal backend implementation	🚧 planned
Zenith.NET.Vulkan	Vulkan backend implementation	✅

Extensions

Package	Description	Status
Zenith.NET.Extensions.ImageSharp	ImageSharp texture loading extension	✅
Zenith.NET.Extensions.ImGui	Dear ImGui integration	✅
Zenith.NET.Extensions.Skia	SkiaSharp integration	🚧 planned
Zenith.NET.Extensions.Slang	Slang shader compiler extension	✅

Views

Package	Description
Zenith.NET.Views	Shared UI view abstractions
Zenith.NET.Views.Avalonia	Avalonia UI integration
Zenith.NET.Views.Maui	.NET MAUI integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WinForms	Windows Forms integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WinUI	WinUI 3 / Uno Platform integration
Zenith.NET.Views.WPF	WPF integration

🖥️ Supported Platforms

Framework	DirectX12	Vulkan
Avalonia	✅	✅
MAUI	✅	✅
WinForms	✅	✅
WinUI	✅	✅
WinUI (Uno)	✅	✅
WPF	✅	✅

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10.0 or later

🚧 Coming Soon

• Metal backend (macOS / iOS)
• SkiaSharp integration

⚠️ Note

This is an early preview release. APIs may change in future versions.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/qian-o/Zenith.NET/commits/v0.0.2

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