Not the same command set. Depending on what you're doing, you can just use the managed GDI+ implementation on windows forms to draw images, rects, text, etc. It allow you to draw it scaled, rotated, tinted, etc. It also alows a good level of poligons manipulation, gradients, etc etc BUT it is not hardware accelerated and not as fast as BlitzMax. If you need it to animate, it's out of the box.
then, there's the simple directmedial layer ( http://www.libsdl.org/ ) , that has C# bindings and it is compatible with both windows .net and mono. It provides hardware acceleration and a very good support for hardware accelerated 2D graphics., with support for animation, etc. It works very differently from BlitzMax but it is not very complicated, just a different approach, and it is fast and quite reliable.
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