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Welcome and thanks for using the Open Toolkit library!

This manual will guide you through the necessary steps to develop a project with OpenTK. You will learn how to setup a new project, how to successfully use the tools provided by OpenTK and, finally, how to distribute your project to your end-users. You will also find information on writing performing code and maintaining cross-platform compatibility.

This manual is written in a way that allows skipping from section to section as needed, so feel free to do that; or you can read it sequentially from start to end, if you prefer. Keep in mind that you may add a comment at any point - we always try to improve the manual and high-quality feedback will help not only you but future OpenTK users, too. You can also browse the OpenTK API reference; additionally, the forum contains a lot of example code for various problems.

It is our hope that the time invested reading this book will be paid back in full. So let's get started!

• Table of Contents
• Chapter 0: Learn OpenTK in 15'
• Chapter 1: Installation
• Chapter 2: Introduction to OpenTK
• Chapter 3: OpenTK.Math
• Chapter 4: OpenTK.Graphics (OpenGL and ES)
• Chapter 5: OpenTK.Audio (OpenAL)
• Chapter 6: OpenTK.Compute (OpenCL)
• Chapter 7: OpenTK.Input
• Chapter 8: Advanced Topics
• Chapter 9: Hacking OpenTK
• Appendix 1: Frequently asked questions
• Appendix 2: Function Reference @ jeske.github.io
• Appendix 3: The project database
• Appendix 4: Links
• Appendix 5: Translations

This manual is released as Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA). You may reproduce it and creative derivative works for non-commercial purposes: (a) you provide a link to the original; (b) you distribute your derivative work under an identical license.