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Current stable version of SharpDX is 2.4.2.

SharpDX binaries are directly available from SharpDX google code download page or from nuget packages.

SharpDX is now bundled into 2 separate packages, for all platforms and .NET Framework:

A Binary only package, SharpDX-Bin-2.4.2.exe that contains only binaries necessary to developed with SharpDX.
A Full package, SharpDX-Full-2.4.2.exe that contains binaries, full documentation and all samples.
Or via Nuget Packages, providing binaries for .NET 2.0-4.0 and WinRT, with debugging information and source code stepping.

The content of the archive is structured like this:

| Bin
|  | Standard-net20    : Standard Binaries for Windows Desktop
|  |                     API up to DirectX11.0 (compatible with DirectX June 2010 runtime)
|  |                     Supporting .NET Framework 2.0 to 4.5+ and Mono 2.10+
|  | Signed-net20      : Standard Signed Binaries
|  |
|  | Standard-net40    : Standard Binaries for Windows Desktop
|  |                     API up to DirectX11.0 (compatible with DirectX June 2010 runtime)
|  |                     Supporting .NET Framework 4.0 to 4.5+ and Mono 2.10+
|  | Signed-net40      : Standard Signed Binaries
|  |
|  | Standard-winrt    : Standard Binaries for Windows 8 Modern/WINRT
|  |                     Providing only DirectX11.1 API
|  |                     Supporting .NET Framework 4.5Core
|  | Signed-winrt      : Standard Signed Binaries for Windows 8 Modern/WINRT
|  |                     Providing only DirectX11.1 API
|  |                     Supporting .NET Framework 4.5Core
|  |
|  | Win8Desktop-net40 : Windows 8 Desktop Binaries 
|  |                     Providing only DirectX11.1 API
|  |                     Supporting .NET Framework 4.0 to 4.5+ and Mono 2.10+
|
| Documentation : Full generated documentation with a comprehensive Class Library Reference
|               
| Samples       : More than 40 C# samples for Desktop application and 10 samples for Windows 8 Metro Application.

Note: Windows 8 Metro samples are only accessible from Visual Studio 2012 running on Windows 8 RTM.

Runtime Requirements

.NET Framework installed (depending on your application requirements 2.0 to 4.5)
For desktop, the DirectX June 2010 Redistributable Runtime. Note that when some API (for example Direct3D11 without using D3DX functions) don't require any DirectX runtime installed.
For Windows 8 Metro, the DirectX11.1 runtime is already part of the OS.

Source building

You can also build directly from the sources.

Get a local copy of the sharpdx repository with this command:
```
git clone https://code.google.com/p/sharpdx/
```
.NET 3.5 Framework is required to build SharpDX (This is for example not installed by default on Windows 8)
Download and install the DirectX SDK June 2010. SharpDX build is expecting the DXSDK_DIR environment variable to point to the DirectX SDK directory. This variable is setup automatically when installing the DirectX SDK.
Download and install Microsoft Windows 7.1 SDK to compile Net20/Net40 release under Windows 8 / Visual Studio 2012
To build SharpDX for Windows Desktop or Windows RT, open the solution SharpDX.sln and select the target you want to build:
1. Net20Debug/Net20Release: To build the standard desktop SharpDX for .NET 2.0
2. Net40Debug/Net40Release: To build the standard desktop SharpDX for .NET 4.0
3. Win8Debug/Win8Release: To Build SharpDX for Windows 8 Metro (Requires Visual Studio 2012)
4. Direct3D11_1Debug/Direct3D11_1Release: To Build SharpDX for Windows 7/8 Desktop (Requires Visual Studio 2012)
To build SharpDX for Windows Phone 8, select SHarpDXWP8.sln solution

Requirements

Visual Studio 2010 (Express editions are not supported).
Visual Studio 2012 RTM, only required if you are trying to compile SharpDX for Windows 8 Metro
DirectX SDK June 2010
Microsoft Windows 7.1 SDK to compile Net20/Net40 release under Windows 8 / Visual Studio 2012

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