Regarding Visualization capabilities in VB.Net

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Hi All
I am working for a EE Department. We are in the process of
developing some application that requires 3D visualization
and other display routines. Can anyone clarify that if
thats possible.

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I am working for a EE Department. We are in the process of
developing some application that requires 3D visualization
and other display routines. Can anyone clarify that if
thats possible.
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You can use GDI+ or managed DirectX, or managed OpenGL.

GDI+ is standard in the Framework install. See System.Drawing namespace.
It is great for 2D visualization

Managed DirectX is a separate SDK download from Microsoft. It is great for
3D visualization on Windows.

get the DirectX SDK here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d97f320-9dfd-
4e7a-b947-3a037ccf84af&languageid=f49e8428-7071-4979-8a67-3cffcb0c2524
&displaylang=en


A .NET Managed version of OpenGL can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/csgl/

OpenGl is best for platform portability. Keep in mind the framework will
be available via Mono on the Linux platform. So if you need to support
more than windows in a 3D visualization use OpenGL.

Michael Lang, MCSD
 
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