Running TiXL from an IDE

But why?

Although you can use most of TiXL's features in the standalone release versions, you might to run it from an IDE because:

• It allows to create your own C# ops, including hot code reloading and debugging.
• You can use and test the latest features on the Main Branch.
• Setting it up is easy
• In most scenarios, performances will be similar
• You can contribute your changes as Pull Requests (PR) back to the community.
• You can build your own release builds.

An overview

TiXL consists of a dazzling number of projects (csproj), of which you will only need very few:

• Editor/ - is the main user interface.
• Player/ -
• Core/ - Functionality shared between Editor and Player
• Operators/Lib/ - Primary operators
• Operators/TypeOperators/ - Examples
• Operators/Examples/ - Examples

To develop new operators you do not need to know any of these details, but you should read...

• How TiXL works
• Basic Concepts
• Writing c# Ops

Also read:

• Operator Conventions for a checklist before contributing ops.
• Developing Advanced C# Operators
• CodingConventions
• Building an Image Mosaic Effect with TiXL