Graphical Interfaces for C#
A new environment called .NET was recently introduced to wide public. However, this environment does not contain libraries for advanced graphical output. Therefore it is necessary to make such libraries available to .NET. This paper describes our implementation of graphical library interfaces. The implementation allows cooperation of graphical interfaces with .NET. We have dealt with interfaces of libraries such as OpenGL, DirectX, and Visualization Toolkit (also known as VTK). A short description of libraries is included as well as a short introduction to .NET environment. We also present results, advantages, and disadvantages of our implementation. This paper contains neither comparison of the graphical libraries nor comparison of .NET environment and other environments.
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Controlling the PIC-IO board from your PC
PIC-IO from Olimex is a small but powerful development board who let you control 4 optoisolated input and 4 relay outputs (220V,10A) with this features is possible to turn on and off almost any electronic device at home.
This board is almost a discrete PLC module and it has a serial port RS232 that allow you to communicate with a PC. The signals from de input channels can be analyzed by the PIC and this one could generate a output.
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