The Windows Presentation Foundation community is growing because WPF
facilitates the development of better graphical user interfaces and graphical
applications. But WPF's tri-dimensional resources are not developed compared
to DirectX's capabilities and existing hardware potential. This article will
explain how to develop panels to make it easier to lay out tri-dimensional
figures in a Viewport3D.
The Bi-dimensional Hierarchy
In WPF the bi-dimensional world is hierarchically organized as shown in
Figure 1. The type Visual is the base class of any element that can be shown
in WPF, while its descendant UIElement defines the elements that can interact
with the users through keyboard, mouse, and stylus events. FrameworkElement
is the unique implementation of UIElement right ... (more)
The forthcoming .NET 2.0 Framework will introduce new important features. One
of those features is genericity. Genericity is not really a new concept. It
has been included in some previous languages as ADA, C++, Eiffel, and in the
mathematical model of abstract data types (ADT). However, the C# 2.0 notation
for genericity (see the first entry in the References section), the
integration o... (more)