[Insight-users] Existence of an ITK .net-assembly

[Dan Mueller]

Hi Hendrik,

There are (or potentially will be) a number of options for using ITK 
with CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) aka. dot net, aka C#, aka. 
managed C++:

1. At the moment, you can use use ITK with C++/CLI (an "extension" to 
the C++ standard produced by Microsoft). This option is only available 
for those machines running the CLR (eg. Windows). See the following 
insight-users email for more details: 
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2006-October/019652.html.

2. There is talk of moving WrapITK from CableSWIG to pure SWIG (SWIG as 
of version 1.3.18 supports C#). Currently WrapITK only supports Tcl, 
Java and Python, so obviously support for C# will also need to be added. 
I'm not sure if or when the move to pure SWIG will happen (Gaetan?), but 
if it does happen and the C# wrappers are added to WrapITK, I /suspect/ 
(this is just hunch, requiring further investigation) that the wrappers 
will execute on both CLR and Mono machines (ie. Windows, Linux, Solaris, 
Mac OS X, Unix). The same be achieved if CableSWIG was updated to a 
newer version of SWIG, again I'm not sure if this will or has already 
happened...?

3. There is talk that IronPython v1.1 (a Python implementation for the 
CLI: 
http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseName=1.1%20Alpha) 
will support the import of pre-compiled Python modules (ie. it could 
import the existing WrapITK Python wrappers). I'm not sure if this will 
happen or work, but something to keep your eye on maybe.

4. Off and on for a while now, before some of the above options where 
available/conceivable, I started creating some wrappers around common 
ITK objects using C++/CLI (note: these run on Windows only due to the 
dependency on the vcredist assemblies). I have used these wrappers in 
both C# and IronPython applications. If others are interested, I could 
probably make them available via the Insight Journal.

HTH

Cheers

Dan


Hendrik Belitz wrote:
> Hi my fellow insightful people,
>
> since there's a lot of .net/Mono development going on around me lately and I didn't find anything about that topic in the kitware wiki, I'll ask my question here. 
>
> Does anybody know of any kind of inofficial or third-party .net-assembly encapsulating at least a subset of the ITK classes?
>
> Regards
>  Hendrik
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