Mastering Dear ImGui in C#

A guide to creating fast, modern, and flexible cross platform GUI applications using Dear ImGui in C#.

Whether you're a beginner looking to get started with ImGui or a developer in search of a new GUI library to learn, this book covers everything you need to create intuitive, dynamic, and pleasant user interfaces.

What’s Inside:

• Getting Started with ImGui.NET: Step-by-step instructions for setting up ImGui in your C# projects, including configuring rendering backends like DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan.
• Interactive Widgets: Learn to use essential ImGui widgets, such as buttons, sliders, checkboxes, input fields, and combo boxes, to create functional and responsive UIs.
• Layouts & Customization: Master window layouts, child windows, docking, and styling to make your application both visually appealing and highly usable.
• Advanced Techniques: Explore advanced ImGui concepts like drag-and-drop functionality, custom drawing with the Draw List API, tooltips, and event handling.
• Real-World Applications: Build interactive applications, including a simple notepad app, to see ImGui in action with practical examples.

Why This Book?

• Comprehensive & Detailed: This book covers both the fundamentals and advanced topics, making it suitable for all skill levels.
• Code Snippets & Pictures: Learn how to integrate ImGui into your projects with clear examples and code snippets followed by images.
• ImGui API Coverage: Dive deep into the ImGui API, exploring all the key functions and how to use them in your C# applications.

This book suits you if:

• You want to make C# GUI applications using an easy and quick to learn graphical user interface.
• You want to learn a lightweight, fast, debloated and cross-platform C# GUI library.
• You want to expand your Dear ImGui knowledge.

Whether you're building complex tools or simple UIs for your projects, this book is the ultimate guide to mastering Dear ImGui in C#.

If you come from the original C++ version and just want to learn the dear imgui API and features, most of the examples here can easily be understood and converted from the C# variant.

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