For the coding conventions, I can recommend you to read this article. Obviously you don't need to stick 100% to that, but especially as long as you following the naming conventions you will improve the quality of your code tremendously.

Thank you for the link, i will have a look at that article !

I really appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Matthias

Nice attempt.

Just use this in the Post-build...

that's a lot better I'll change it in the manual for the next release!

Could you provide a sample that uses the engine with a windows form project.
I think the main reason we all want a C# wrapper is to be able to use other .NET controls as well.

So how would you render the engine into a .NET form? Maybe you can pass a HWND handle or something.

Look in the EngVar, there are some IntPtr like hwnd, hwndparent, hwndtarget and pRectTarget (which points to some RECT struct afaik) - they should do the trick i think. I'm sorry but i didn't work with windows forms yet and thus can't provide you with any help reagrding this topic at the moment.

hi i'm trying to get a basic app running. I do all the steps in the manual and i use code straight out of the manual.

I run my program, WED pops up and it says "acknex.dll" so i know the DLL is copied correctly. Then the engine pops up but says...

"(name of program).vshost.exe damaged"

... and it just crashes. I checked my post build and I have set it to the the correct .exe, why is it using the .vhost.exe one?

Maybe i'm missing something.

EDIT > I can run the program if i manually go into the project folder and start the .exe. Just wondered why this isnt automated when i press F5.

a7.EngVar.d3d_lockable is read-only. To allow rendering into a target window this needs to be set to 1. I can try and add a set clause, but i haven't worked with unsafe code really.

hi about the problem with vshost.exe it looks like you haven't disabled the "Visual studio hosting process" you can disable it under project proberties, debug -> "Enable the Visual studio hosting process".
If you disable the visual studio hosting process it should work fine afaik.

only the Var object for a7.EngVar.d3d_lockable is read-only. You can still set it's value ->
a7.EngVar.d3d_lockable.IntValue = 1;
sets the value of d3d_lockable to 1.
I hope this helps, if you still got problems don't hesitate to post !

cheers,
Matthias

P.S.: I'm currently creating a new version of the wrapper, where names may and will differ from the current version, so only use this version for testing ^^

Awesome work, thanks

Tried to run on a 64bit system resulted in a BadImageFormatException
If anyone else is experiencing this problem here is how to solve it:

Set a new platform type in the configuration manager,
Build menu -> Configuration Manager -> Platform -> new -> new platform x86