Thursday, November 06, 2014

As a freelance, my publications will now be published on the new site I designed and developed entirely : http://technodesign.solutions

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Perspective : 3D printing for WPF

3D printing is a burgeoning technology that produces real objects from 3D models.

These 3D models are usually done manually using a CAD software. The communication between the computer and the 3D printer is usually done by file, the STL (STereoLithography) format being the most common.

WPF allows you to make 3D models. Perspective is a library that facilitates 3D development with WPF. The impression of 3D models from WPF and Perspective has an advantage compared to manual operation of CAD software: programming enables building dynamic models.

So I expanded the Perspective library with an export functionality of 3D models in STL file. 3D printing tests were conducted at Cambridge (England), with the help of the makespace community, that I thank for its help, especially Kim Spence-Jones, Nicholas Johnson and the Brice family ;)

Read the details in my new article.


Wednesday, July 17, 2013

C++/CX inheritance introduction

C++/CX is an extension of C++ language designed to use the Windows Runtime (WinRT) to build Windows Store applications, or reusable components for the different supported languages: JavaScript, NET (C#, VB.NET, etc.) and C++.

WinRT is a native API that uses a simplified version of the COM technology. This technology is based on interfaces, and does not support by default class inheritance, except for XAML classes. Therefore, this feature applies to C++/CX language in which we should favor the use of interfaces, except for some XAML use cases.

Read the details in my new article.