Drawing library for C#

Question

Will someone please point me the way to the best 2D drawing library that can be used in C#? I started to look into System.Drawing.Drawing2D but then I read that I should use DirectX for best performance. I've found the DirectX SDK but it is version 9. Isn't version 11 the latest? I'm attempting to create a somewhat simple 2D application for a PC. The only thing that makes it complicated is that I'm needed to draw a large number of simple moving objects (~100,000) on a 2D map. So, I'm betting performance is important.

Answer 1

You can use SharpDX, which actually provides wrappers for Direct2D. This will provide access to the "best" (or at least most current) hardware accelerated 2D drawing API for Microsoft platforms.