1## Microsoft Windows 2 3### Developing a .Net Framework application 4To develop a .Net Framework application that uses LibCecSharp: 5* download the latest binary version from [our website](http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/Downloads) 6* add a reference to LibCecSharp.dll for the target architecture (x86/amd64). It's installed to `C:\Program Files (x86)\Pulse-Eight\USB-CEC Adapter\netfx` by default 7* the minimum .Net Framework version required for LibCecSharp is 4.0 8 9An example implementation can be found on [Github](https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/cec-dotnet/tree/master/src/CecSharpTester/netfx/). 10 11### Developing a .Net Core application 12To develop a .Net Core application that uses LibCecSharp: 13* download the latest binary version from [our website](http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/Downloads) 14* add a reference to LibCecSharpCore.dll for the target architecture (x86/amd64). It's installed to `C:\Program Files (x86)\Pulse-Eight\USB-CEC Adapter\netcore` by default 15* the minimum .Net Core version required for LibCecSharpCore is 3.1 16 17An example implementation can be found on [Github](https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/cec-dotnet/tree/master/src/CecSharpTester/netcore/). 18 19### Prerequisites 20To compile libCEC on Windows, you'll need the following dependencies: 21* [p8-platform](https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/platform) 2.0 or later 22* [cmake 3.12 or newer](http://www.cmake.org/) 23* [Visual Studio 2019 (v16) or newer](https://www.visualstudio.com/), with the following options selected: Universal Windows Platform development, Desktop development with C++, .NET Core cross platform development 24* [.Net Core 3.1](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1) 25* To create an installer, you'll need [Nullsoft's NSIS](http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) 26* You also need two versions of Python to build an installer: [Python 2.7.13 for x86](https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13.msi), required by the EventGhost plugin and [Python 3.6 or newer for x64](https://www.python.org/) 27 28### Visual Studio 29The build scripts have been configured for building with Visual Studio 2019. To use another version Visual Studio, pass the verion number as parameter: `windows\visual-studio.cmd 2019` 30 31### Compilation 32To only compile libCEC, follow these instructions: 33* `git submodule update --init --recursive` 34* run `windows\build-all.cmd` to build libCEC and LibCecSharp 35 36To develop for libCEC in Visual Studio: 37* `git submodule update --init --recursive` 38* run `windows\visual-studio.cmd` 39 40To build an installer on Windows: 41* `git submodule update --init --recursive` 42* run `windows\create-installer.cmd` 43* the installer is stored as `build\libCEC-VERSION.exe` 44