Composition native interoperation with DirectX and Direct2D

The Windows.UI.Composition API provides the ICompositorInterop, ICompositionDrawingSurfaceInterop, and ICompositionGraphicsDeviceInterop native interoperation interfaces allowing content to be moved directly into the compositor.

Native interoperation is structured around surface objects that are backed by DirectX textures. The surfaces are created from a factory object called CompositionGraphicsDevice. This object is backed by an underlying Direct2D or Direct3D device object, which it uses to allocate video memory for surfaces. The composition API never creates the underlying DirectX device. It is the responsibility of the application to create one and pass it to the CompositionGraphicsDevice object. An application may create more than one CompositionGraphicsDevice object at a time, and it may use the same DirectX device as the rendering device for multiple CompositionGraphicsDevice objects.

Creating a surface

Each CompositionGraphicsDevice serves as a surface factory. Each surface is created with an initial size (which may be 0,0), but no valid pixels. A surface in its initial state may be immediately consumed in a visual tree, for example, via a CompositionSurfaceBrush and a SpriteVisual, but in its initial state the surface has no effect on screen output. It is, for all purposes, entirely transparent, even if the specified alpha mode is “opaque”.

Occasionally, DirectX devices may be rendered unusable. This may happen, amongst other reasons, if the application passes invalid arguments to certain DirectX APIs, or if the graphics adapter is reset by the system, or if the driver is updated. Direct3D has an API that an application may use to discover, asynchronously, if the device is lost for any reason. When a DirectX device is lost, the application must discard it, create a new one, and pass it to any CompositionGraphicsDevice objects previously associated with the bad DirectX device.

Loading pixels into a surface

To load pixels into the surface, the application must call the BeginDraw method, which returns a DirectX interface representing a texture or Direct2D context, depending on what the application requests. The application must then render or upload pixels into that texture. When the application is done, it must call the EndDraw method. Only at that point are the new pixels available for composition, but they still don't show up on screen until the next time all changes to the visual tree are committed. If the visual tree is committed before EndDraw is called, then the update that is in progress is not visible on screen and the surface continues to display the contents it had prior to BeginDraw. When EndDraw is called, the texture or Direct2D context pointer returned by BeginDraw is invalidated. An application should never cache that pointer beyond the EndDraw call.

The application may only call BeginDraw on one surface at a time, for any given CompositionGraphicsDevice. After calling BeginDraw, the application must call EndDraw on that surface before calling BeginDraw on another. As the API is agile, the application is responsible for synchronizing these calls if it wishes to perform rendering from multiple worker threads. If an application wants to interrupt rendering one surface and switch to another temporarily, the application may use the SuspendDraw method. This allows another BeginDraw to succeed, but does not make the first surface update available for on-screen composition. This allows the application to perform multiple updates in a transactional manner. Once a surface is suspended, the application may continue the update by calling the ResumeDraw method, or it may declare that the update is done by calling EndDraw. This means only one surface can be actively updated at a time for any given CompositionGraphicsDevice. Each graphics device keeps this state independently of the others, so an application may render to two surfaces simultaneously if they belong to different graphics devices. However, this precludes the video memory for those two surfaces from being pooled together and, as such, is less memory efficient.

The BeginDraw, SuspendDraw, ResumeDraw and EndDraw methods return failures if the application performs an incorrect operation (such as passing invalid arguments, or calling BeginDraw on a surface before calling EndDraw on another). These types of failures represent application bugs and, as such, the expectation is that they are handled with a fail fast. BeginDraw may also return a failure if the underlying DirectX device is lost. This failure is not fatal as the application can recreate its DirectX device and try again. As such, the application is expected to handle device loss by simply skipping rendering. If BeginDraw fails for any reason, the application should also not call EndDraw, as the begin never succeeded in the first place.

Scrolling

For performance reasons, when an application calls BeginDraw the contents of the returned texture are not guaranteed to be the previous contents of the surface. The application must assume that the contents are random and, as such, the application must ensure that all pixels are touched, either by clearing the surface before rendering or by drawing enough opaque contents to cover the entire updated rectangle. This, combined with the fact that the texture pointer is only valid between BeginDraw and EndDraw calls, makes it impossible for the application to copy previous contents out of the surface. For this reason, we offer a Scroll method, which allows the application to perform a same-surface pixel copy.

C++/WinRT usage example

The following code example illustrates an interoperation scenario. The example combines types from the Windows Runtime-based surface area of Windows Composition, together with types from the interop headers, and code that renders text using the COM-based DirectWrite and Direct2D APIs. The example uses BeginDraw and EndDraw to make it seamless to interoperate between these technologies. The example uses DirectWrite to lay out the text, and then it uses Direct2D to render it. The composition graphics device accepts the Direct2D device directly at initialization time. This allows BeginDraw to return an ID2D1DeviceContext interface pointer, which is considerably more efficient than having the application create a Direct2D context to wrap a returned ID3D11Texture2D interface at each drawing operation.

To try out the C++/WinRT code example below, first create a new Core App (C++/WinRT) project in Visual Studio (for requirements, see Visual Studio support for C++/WinRT). Replace the contents of your pch.h and App.cpp source code files with the code listings below, then build and run. The application renders the string "Hello, World!" in black text on a transparent background.

// pch.h
#pragma once
#include <windows.h>
#include <D2d1_1.h>
#include <D3d11_4.h>
#include <Dwrite.h>
#include <Windows.Graphics.DirectX.Direct3D11.interop.h>
#include <Windows.ui.composition.interop.h>
#include <unknwn.h>

#include <winrt/Windows.ApplicationModel.Core.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.Foundation.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.Graphics.DirectX.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.Graphics.DirectX.Direct3D11.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.UI.Composition.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.UI.Core.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.UI.Input.h>

// App.cpp
//*********************************************************
//
// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
// This code is licensed under the MIT License (MIT).
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, 
// INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 
// IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, 
// DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, 
// TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH 
// THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
//
//*********************************************************

#include "pch.h"

using namespace winrt;
using namespace winrt::Windows::ApplicationModel::Core;
using namespace winrt::Windows::Foundation;
using namespace winrt::Windows::Foundation::Numerics;
using namespace winrt::Windows::Graphics::DirectX;
using namespace winrt::Windows::Graphics::DirectX::Direct3D11;
using namespace winrt::Windows::UI;
using namespace winrt::Windows::UI::Composition;
using namespace winrt::Windows::UI::Core;

namespace abi
{
    using namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation;
    using namespace ABI::Windows::Graphics::DirectX;
    using namespace ABI::Windows::UI::Composition;
}

// An app-provided helper to render lines of text.
struct SampleText
{
    SampleText(winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextLayout> const& text, CompositionGraphicsDevice const& compositionGraphicsDevice) :
        m_text(text),
        m_compositionGraphicsDevice(compositionGraphicsDevice)
    {
        // Create the surface just big enough to hold the formatted text block.
        DWRITE_TEXT_METRICS metrics;
        winrt::check_hresult(m_text->GetMetrics(&metrics));
        winrt::Windows::Foundation::Size surfaceSize{ metrics.width, metrics.height };

        CompositionDrawingSurface drawingSurface{ m_compositionGraphicsDevice.CreateDrawingSurface(
            surfaceSize,
            DirectXPixelFormat::B8G8R8A8UIntNormalized,
            DirectXAlphaMode::Premultiplied) };

        // Cache the interop pointer, since that's what we always use.
        m_drawingSurfaceInterop = drawingSurface.as<abi::ICompositionDrawingSurfaceInterop>();

        // Draw the text
        DrawText();

        // If the rendering device is lost, the application will recreate and replace it. We then
        // own redrawing our pixels.
        m_deviceReplacedEventToken = m_compositionGraphicsDevice.RenderingDeviceReplaced(
            [this](CompositionGraphicsDevice const&, RenderingDeviceReplacedEventArgs const&)
            {
                // Draw the text again.
                DrawText();
                return S_OK;
            });
    }

    ~SampleText()
    {
        m_compositionGraphicsDevice.RenderingDeviceReplaced(m_deviceReplacedEventToken);
    }

    // Return the underlying surface to the caller.
    auto Surface()
    {
        // To the caller, the fact that we have a drawing surface is an implementation detail.
        // Return the base interface instead.
        return m_drawingSurfaceInterop.as<ICompositionSurface>();
    }

private:
    // The text to draw.
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextLayout> m_text;

    // The composition surface that we use in the visual tree.
    winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositionDrawingSurfaceInterop> m_drawingSurfaceInterop;

    // The device that owns the surface.
    CompositionGraphicsDevice m_compositionGraphicsDevice{ nullptr };
    //winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositionGraphicsDevice> m_compositionGraphicsDevice2;

    // For managing our event notifier.
    winrt::event_token m_deviceReplacedEventToken;

    // We may detect device loss on BeginDraw calls. This helper handles this condition or other
    // errors.
    bool CheckForDeviceRemoved(HRESULT hr)
    {
        if (hr == S_OK)
        {
            // Everything is fine: go ahead and draw.
            return true;
        }

        if (hr == DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED)
        {
            // We can't draw at this time, but this failure is recoverable. Just skip drawing for
            // now. We will be asked to draw again once the Direct3D device is recreated.
            return false;
        }

        // Any other error is unexpected and, therefore, fatal.
        winrt::check_hresult(hr);
        return true;
    }

    // Renders the text into our composition surface
    void DrawText()
    {
        // Begin our update of the surface pixels. If this is our first update, we are required
        // to specify the entire surface, which nullptr is shorthand for (but, as it works out,
        // any time we make an update we touch the entire surface, so we always pass nullptr).
        winrt::com_ptr<::ID2D1DeviceContext> d2dDeviceContext;
        POINT offset;
        if (CheckForDeviceRemoved(m_drawingSurfaceInterop->BeginDraw(nullptr,
            __uuidof(ID2D1DeviceContext), d2dDeviceContext.put_void(), &offset)))
        {
            d2dDeviceContext->Clear(D2D1::ColorF(D2D1::ColorF::Black, 0.f));

            // Create a solid color brush for the text. A more sophisticated application might want
            // to cache and reuse a brush across all text elements instead, taking care to recreate
            // it in the event of device removed.
            winrt::com_ptr<::ID2D1SolidColorBrush> brush;
            winrt::check_hresult(d2dDeviceContext->CreateSolidColorBrush(
                D2D1::ColorF(D2D1::ColorF::Black, 1.0f), brush.put()));

            // Draw the line of text at the specified offset, which corresponds to the top-left
            // corner of our drawing surface. Notice we don't call BeginDraw on the D2D device
            // context; this has already been done for us by the composition API.
            d2dDeviceContext->DrawTextLayout(D2D1::Point2F((float)offset.x, (float)offset.y), m_text.get(),
                brush.get());

            // Our update is done. EndDraw never indicates rendering device removed, so any
            // failure here is unexpected and, therefore, fatal.
            winrt::check_hresult(m_drawingSurfaceInterop->EndDraw());
        }
    }
};

struct DeviceLostEventArgs
{
    DeviceLostEventArgs(IDirect3DDevice const& device) : m_device(device) {}
    IDirect3DDevice Device() { return m_device; }
    static DeviceLostEventArgs Create(IDirect3DDevice const& device) { return DeviceLostEventArgs{ device }; }

private:
    IDirect3DDevice m_device;
};

struct DeviceLostHelper
{
    DeviceLostHelper() = default;

    ~DeviceLostHelper()
    {
        StopWatchingCurrentDevice();
        m_onDeviceLostHandler = nullptr;
    }

    IDirect3DDevice CurrentlyWatchedDevice() { return m_device; }

    void WatchDevice(winrt::com_ptr<::IDXGIDevice> const& dxgiDevice)
    {
        // If we're currently listening to a device, then stop.
        StopWatchingCurrentDevice();

        // Set the current device to the new device.
        m_device = nullptr;
        winrt::check_hresult(::CreateDirect3D11DeviceFromDXGIDevice(dxgiDevice.get(), reinterpret_cast<::IInspectable**>(winrt::put_abi(m_device))));

        // Get the DXGI Device.
        m_dxgiDevice = dxgiDevice;

        // QI For the ID3D11Device4 interface.
        winrt::com_ptr<::ID3D11Device4> d3dDevice{ m_dxgiDevice.as<::ID3D11Device4>() };

        // Create a wait struct.
        m_onDeviceLostHandler = nullptr;
        m_onDeviceLostHandler = ::CreateThreadpoolWait(DeviceLostHelper::OnDeviceLost, (PVOID)this, nullptr);

        // Create a handle and a cookie.
        m_eventHandle.attach(::CreateEvent(nullptr, false, false, nullptr));
        winrt::check_bool(bool{ m_eventHandle });
        m_cookie = 0;

        // Register for device lost.
        ::SetThreadpoolWait(m_onDeviceLostHandler, m_eventHandle.get(), nullptr);
        winrt::check_hresult(d3dDevice->RegisterDeviceRemovedEvent(m_eventHandle.get(), &m_cookie));
    }

    void StopWatchingCurrentDevice()
    {
        if (m_dxgiDevice)
        {
            // QI For the ID3D11Device4 interface.
            auto d3dDevice{ m_dxgiDevice.as<::ID3D11Device4>() };

            // Unregister from the device lost event.
            ::CloseThreadpoolWait(m_onDeviceLostHandler);
            d3dDevice->UnregisterDeviceRemoved(m_cookie);

            // Clear member variables.
            m_onDeviceLostHandler = nullptr;
            m_eventHandle.close();
            m_cookie = 0;
            m_device = nullptr;
        }
    }

    void DeviceLost(winrt::delegate<DeviceLostHelper const*, DeviceLostEventArgs const&> const& handler)
    {
        m_deviceLost = handler;
    }

    winrt::delegate<DeviceLostHelper const*, DeviceLostEventArgs const&> m_deviceLost;

private:
    void RaiseDeviceLostEvent(IDirect3DDevice const& oldDevice)
    {
        m_deviceLost(this, DeviceLostEventArgs::Create(oldDevice));
    }

    static void CALLBACK OnDeviceLost(PTP_CALLBACK_INSTANCE /* instance */, PVOID context, PTP_WAIT /* wait */, TP_WAIT_RESULT /* waitResult */)
    {
        auto deviceLostHelper = reinterpret_cast<DeviceLostHelper*>(context);
        auto oldDevice = deviceLostHelper->m_device;
        deviceLostHelper->StopWatchingCurrentDevice();
        deviceLostHelper->RaiseDeviceLostEvent(oldDevice);
    }

private:
    IDirect3DDevice m_device;
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDXGIDevice> m_dxgiDevice;
    PTP_WAIT m_onDeviceLostHandler{ nullptr };
    winrt::handle m_eventHandle;
    DWORD m_cookie{ 0 };
};

struct SampleApp : implements<SampleApp, IFrameworkViewSource, IFrameworkView>
{
    IFrameworkView CreateView()
    {
        return *this;
    }

    void Initialize(CoreApplicationView const&)
    {
    }

    // Run once when the application starts up
    void Initialize()
    {
        // Create a Direct2D device.
        CreateDirect2DDevice();

        // To create a composition graphics device, we need to QI for another interface
        winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositorInterop> compositorInterop{ m_compositor.as<abi::ICompositorInterop>() };

        // Create a graphics device backed by our D3D device
        winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositionGraphicsDevice> compositionGraphicsDeviceIface;
        winrt::check_hresult(compositorInterop->CreateGraphicsDevice(
            m_d2dDevice.get(),
            compositionGraphicsDeviceIface.put()));
        m_compositionGraphicsDevice = compositionGraphicsDeviceIface.as<CompositionGraphicsDevice>();
    }

    void Load(hstring const&)
    {
    }

    void Uninitialize()
    {
    }

    void Run()
    {
        CoreWindow window = CoreWindow::GetForCurrentThread();
        window.Activate();

        CoreDispatcher dispatcher = window.Dispatcher();
        dispatcher.ProcessEvents(CoreProcessEventsOption::ProcessUntilQuit);
    }

    void SetWindow(CoreWindow const& window)
    {
        m_compositor = Compositor{};
        m_target = m_compositor.CreateTargetForCurrentView();
        ContainerVisual root = m_compositor.CreateContainerVisual();
        m_target.Root(root);

        Initialize();

        winrt::check_hresult(
            ::DWriteCreateFactory(
                DWRITE_FACTORY_TYPE_SHARED,
                __uuidof(m_dWriteFactory),
                reinterpret_cast<::IUnknown**>(m_dWriteFactory.put())
            )
        );

        winrt::check_hresult(
            m_dWriteFactory->CreateTextFormat(
                L"Segoe UI",
                nullptr,
                DWRITE_FONT_WEIGHT_REGULAR,
                DWRITE_FONT_STYLE_NORMAL,
                DWRITE_FONT_STRETCH_NORMAL,
                36.f,
                L"en-US",
                m_textFormat.put()
            )
        );

        Rect windowBounds{ window.Bounds() };
        std::wstring text{ L"Hello, World!" };

        winrt::check_hresult(
            m_dWriteFactory->CreateTextLayout(
                text.c_str(),
                (uint32_t)text.size(),
                m_textFormat.get(),
                windowBounds.Width,
                windowBounds.Height,
                m_textLayout.put()
            )
        );

        Visual textVisual{ CreateVisualFromTextLayout(m_textLayout) };
        textVisual.Size({ windowBounds.Width, windowBounds.Height });
        root.Children().InsertAtTop(textVisual);
    }

    // Called when Direct3D signals the device lost event.
    void OnDirect3DDeviceLost(DeviceLostHelper const* /* sender */, DeviceLostEventArgs const& /* args */)
    {
        // Create a new Direct2D device.
        CreateDirect2DDevice();

        // Restore our composition graphics device to good health.
        winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositionGraphicsDeviceInterop> compositionGraphicsDeviceInterop{ m_compositionGraphicsDevice.as<abi::ICompositionGraphicsDeviceInterop>() };
        winrt::check_hresult(compositionGraphicsDeviceInterop->SetRenderingDevice(m_d2dDevice.get()));
    }

    // Create a surface that is asynchronously filled with an image
    ICompositionSurface CreateSurfaceFromTextLayout(winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextLayout> const& text)
    {
        // Create our wrapper object that will handle downloading and decoding the image (assume
        // throwing new here).
        SampleText textSurface{ text, m_compositionGraphicsDevice };

        // The caller is only interested in the underlying surface.
        return textSurface.Surface();
    }

    // Create a visual that holds an image.
    Visual CreateVisualFromTextLayout(winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextLayout> const& text)
    {
        // Create a sprite visual
        SpriteVisual spriteVisual{ m_compositor.CreateSpriteVisual() };

        // The sprite visual needs a brush to hold the image.
        CompositionSurfaceBrush surfaceBrush{
            m_compositor.CreateSurfaceBrush(CreateSurfaceFromTextLayout(text))
        };

        // Associate the brush with the visual.
        CompositionBrush brush{ surfaceBrush.as<CompositionBrush>() };
        spriteVisual.Brush(brush);

        // Return the visual to the caller as an IVisual.
        return spriteVisual;
    }

private:
    CompositionTarget m_target{ nullptr };
    Compositor m_compositor{ nullptr };
    winrt::com_ptr<::ID2D1Device> m_d2dDevice;
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDXGIDevice> m_dxgiDevice;
    //winrt::com_ptr<abi::ICompositionGraphicsDevice> m_compositionGraphicsDevice;
    CompositionGraphicsDevice m_compositionGraphicsDevice{ nullptr };
    std::vector<SampleText> m_textSurfaces;
    DeviceLostHelper m_deviceLostHelper;
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteFactory> m_dWriteFactory;
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextFormat> m_textFormat;
    winrt::com_ptr<::IDWriteTextLayout> m_textLayout;


    // This helper creates a Direct2D device, and registers for a device loss
    // notification on the underlying Direct3D device. When that notification is
    // raised, the OnDirect3DDeviceLost method is called.
    void CreateDirect2DDevice()
    {
        uint32_t createDeviceFlags = D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_BGRA_SUPPORT;

        // Array with DirectX hardware feature levels in order of preference.
        D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL featureLevels[] =
        {
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_1,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_0,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_3,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_2,
            D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_1
        };

        // Create the Direct3D 11 API device object and a corresponding context.
        winrt::com_ptr<::ID3D11Device> d3DDevice;
        winrt::com_ptr<::ID3D11DeviceContext> d3DImmediateContext;
        D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL d3dFeatureLevel{ D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_1 };

        winrt::check_hresult(
            ::D3D11CreateDevice(
                nullptr, // Default adapter.
                D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_HARDWARE,
                0, // Not asking for a software driver, so not passing a module to one.
                createDeviceFlags, // Set debug and Direct2D compatibility flags.
                featureLevels,
                ARRAYSIZE(featureLevels),
                D3D11_SDK_VERSION,
                d3DDevice.put(),
                &d3dFeatureLevel,
                d3DImmediateContext.put()
            )
        );

        // Initialize Direct2D resources.
        D2D1_FACTORY_OPTIONS d2d1FactoryOptions{ D2D1_DEBUG_LEVEL_NONE };

        // Initialize the Direct2D Factory.
        winrt::com_ptr<::ID2D1Factory1> d2D1Factory;
        winrt::check_hresult(
            ::D2D1CreateFactory(
                D2D1_FACTORY_TYPE_SINGLE_THREADED,
                __uuidof(d2D1Factory),
                &d2d1FactoryOptions,
                d2D1Factory.put_void()
            )
        );

        // Create the Direct2D device object.
        // Obtain the underlying DXGI device of the Direct3D device.
        m_dxgiDevice = d3DDevice.as<::IDXGIDevice>();

        m_d2dDevice = nullptr;
        winrt::check_hresult(
            d2D1Factory->CreateDevice(m_dxgiDevice.get(), m_d2dDevice.put())
        );

        m_deviceLostHelper.WatchDevice(m_dxgiDevice);
        m_deviceLostHelper.DeviceLost({ this, &SampleApp::OnDirect3DDeviceLost });
    }
};

int __stdcall wWinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, PWSTR, int)
{
    CoreApplication::Run(winrt::make<SampleApp>());
}

C++/CX usage example

Note

This code example exists to help you maintain your C++/CX application. But we recommend that you use C++/WinRT for new applications. C++/WinRT is an entirely standard modern C++17 language projection for Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs, implemented as a header-file-based library, and designed to provide you with first-class access to the modern Windows API.

The C++/CX code example below omits the DirectWrite and Direct2D parts of the example.

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Copyright (C) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#include "stdafx.h"

using namespace Microsoft::WRL;
using namespace Windows::Foundation;
using namespace Windows::Graphics::DirectX;
using namespace Windows::UI::Composition;

// This is an app-provided helper to render lines of text
class SampleText
{
private:
    // The text to draw
    ComPtr<IDWriteTextLayout> _text;

    // The composition surface that we use in the visual tree
    ComPtr<ICompositionDrawingSurfaceInterop> _drawingSurfaceInterop;

    // The device that owns the surface
    ComPtr<ICompositionGraphicsDevice> _compositionGraphicsDevice;

    // For managing our event notifier
    EventRegistrationToken _deviceReplacedEventToken;

public:
    SampleText(IDWriteTextLayout* text, ICompositionGraphicsDevice* compositionGraphicsDevice) :
        _text(text),
        _compositionGraphicsDevice(compositionGraphicsDevice)
    {
        // Create the surface just big enough to hold the formatted text block.
        DWRITE_TEXT_METRICS metrics;
        FailFastOnFailure(text->GetMetrics(&metrics));
        Windows::Foundation::Size surfaceSize = { metrics.width, metrics.height };
        ComPtr<ICompositionDrawingSurface> drawingSurface;
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositionGraphicsDevice->CreateDrawingSurface(
            surfaceSize,
            DirectXPixelFormat::DirectXPixelFormat_B8G8R8A8UIntNormalized,
            DirectXAlphaMode::DirectXAlphaMode_Ignore,
            &drawingSurface));

        // Cache the interop pointer, since that's what we always use.
        FailFastOnFailure(drawingSurface.As(&_drawingSurfaceInterop));

        // Draw the text
        DrawText();

        // If the rendering device is lost, the application will recreate and replace it. We then
        // own redrawing our pixels.
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositionGraphicsDevice->add_RenderingDeviceReplaced(
            Callback<RenderingDeviceReplacedEventHandler>([this](
                ICompositionGraphicsDevice* source, IRenderingDeviceReplacedEventArgs* args)
                -> HRESULT
            {
                // Draw the text again
                DrawText();
                return S_OK;
            }).Get(),
            &_deviceReplacedEventToken));
    }

    ~SampleText()
    {
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositionGraphicsDevice->remove_RenderingDeviceReplaced(
            _deviceReplacedEventToken));
    }

    // Return the underlying surface to the caller
    ComPtr<ICompositionSurface> get_Surface()
    {
        // To the caller, the fact that we have a drawing surface is an implementation detail.
        // Return the base interface instead
        ComPtr<ICompositionSurface> surface;
        FailFastOnFailure(_drawingSurfaceInterop.As(&surface));
        return surface;
    }

private:
    // We may detect device loss on BeginDraw calls. This helper handles this condition or other
    // errors.
    bool CheckForDeviceRemoved(HRESULT hr)
    {
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            // Everything is fine -- go ahead and draw
            return true;
        }
        else if (hr == DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED)
        {
            // We can't draw at this time, but this failure is recoverable. Just skip drawing for
            // now. We will be asked to draw again once the Direct3D device is recreated
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            // Any other error is unexpected and, therefore, fatal
            FailFast();
        }
    }

    // Renders the text into our composition surface
    void DrawText()
    {
        // Begin our update of the surface pixels. If this is our first update, we are required
        // to specify the entire surface, which nullptr is shorthand for (but, as it works out,
        // any time we make an update we touch the entire surface, so we always pass nullptr).
        ComPtr<ID2D1DeviceContext> d2dDeviceContext;
        POINT offset;
        if (CheckForDeviceRemoved(_drawingSurfaceInterop->BeginDraw(nullptr,
            __uuidof(ID2D1DeviceContext), &d2dDeviceContext, &offset)))
        {
            // Create a solid color brush for the text. A more sophisticated application might want
            // to cache and reuse a brush across all text elements instead, taking care to recreate
            // it in the event of device removed.
            ComPtr<ID2D1SolidColorBrush> brush;
            FailFastOnFailure(d2dDeviceContext->CreateSolidColorBrush(
                D2D1::ColorF(D2D1::ColorF::Black, 1.0f), &brush));

            // Draw the line of text at the specified offset, which corresponds to the top-left
            // corner of our drawing surface. Notice we don't call BeginDraw on the D2D device
            // context; this has already been done for us by the composition API.
            d2dDeviceContext->DrawTextLayout(D2D1::Point2F(offset.x, offset.y), _text.Get(),
                brush.Get());

            // Our update is done. EndDraw never indicates rendering device removed, so any
            // failure here is unexpected and, therefore, fatal.
            FailFastOnFailure(_drawingSurfaceInterop->EndDraw());
        }
    }
};

class SampleApp
{
    ComPtr<ICompositor> _compositor;
    ComPtr<ID2D1Device> _d2dDevice;
    ComPtr<ICompositionGraphicsDevice> _compositionGraphicsDevice;
    std::vector<ComPtr<SampleText>> _textSurfaces;

public:
    // Run once when the application starts up
    void Initialize(ICompositor* compositor)
    {
        // Cache the compositor (created outside of this method)
        _compositor = compositor;

        // Create a Direct2D device (helper implementation not shown here)
        FailFastOnFailure(CreateDirect2DDevice(&_d2dDevice));

        // To create a composition graphics device, we need to QI for another interface
        ComPtr<ICompositorInterop> compositorInterop;
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositor.As(&compositorInterop));

        // Create a graphics device backed by our D3D device
        FailFastOnFailure(compositorInterop->CreateGraphicsDevice(
            _d2dDevice.Get(),
            &_compositionGraphicsDevice));
    }

    // Called when Direct3D signals the device lost event
    void OnDirect3DDeviceLost()
    {
        // Create a new device
        FailFastOnFailure(CreateDirect2DDevice(_d2dDevice.ReleaseAndGetAddressOf()));

        // Restore our composition graphics device to good health
        ComPtr<ICompositionGraphicsDeviceInterop> compositionGraphicsDeviceInterop;
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositionGraphicsDevice.As(&compositionGraphicsDeviceInterop));
        FailFastOnFailure(compositionGraphicsDeviceInterop->SetRenderingDevice(_d2dDevice.Get()));
    }

    // Create a surface that is asynchronously filled with an image
    ComPtr<ICompositionSurface> CreateSurfaceFromTextLayout(IDWriteTextLayout* text)
    {
        // Create our wrapper object that will handle downloading and decoding the image (assume
        // throwing new here)
        SampleText* textSurface = new SampleText(text, _compositionGraphicsDevice.Get());

        // Keep our image alive
        _textSurfaces.push_back(textSurface);

        // The caller is only interested in the underlying surface
        return textSurface->get_Surface();
    }

    // Create a visual that holds an image
    ComPtr<IVisual> CreateVisualFromTextLayout(IDWriteTextLayout* text)
    {
        // Create a sprite visual
        ComPtr<ISpriteVisual> spriteVisual;
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositor->CreateSpriteVisual(&spriteVisual));

        // The sprite visual needs a brush to hold the image
        ComPtr<ICompositionSurfaceBrush> surfaceBrush;
        FailFastOnFailure(_compositor->CreateSurfaceBrushWithSurface(
            CreateSurfaceFromTextLayout(text).Get(),
            &surfaceBrush));

        // Associate the brush with the visual
        ComPtr<ICompositionBrush> brush;
        FailFastOnFailure(surfaceBrush.As(&brush));
        FailFastOnFailure(spriteVisual->put_Brush(brush.Get()));

        // Return the visual to the caller as the base class
        ComPtr<IVisual> visual;
        FailFastOnFailure(spriteVisual.As(&visual));

        return visual;
    }

private:
    // This helper (implementation not shown here) creates a Direct2D device and registers
    // for a device loss notification on the underlying Direct3D device. When that notification is
    // raised, assume the OnDirect3DDeviceLost method is called.
    HRESULT CreateDirect2DDevice(ID2D1Device** ppDevice);
};