Silverlight supports COM objects? 3d of any kind?
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Hey guys, I've got a client with a 3d desktop application and a 3d ActiveX web browser plugin. They're asking about Silverlight - instead of an ActiveX control, could their browser plug-in be a Silverlight application? For this to be possible, Silverlight must support their existing 3d engine (a COM object) - is this possible? Can I write a Silverlight application that uses a 3rd party COM object to do 3d rendering?
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Hey guys, I've got a client with a 3d desktop application and a 3d ActiveX web browser plugin. They're asking about Silverlight - instead of an ActiveX control, could their browser plug-in be a Silverlight application? For this to be possible, Silverlight must support their existing 3d engine (a COM object) - is this possible? Can I write a Silverlight application that uses a 3rd party COM object to do 3d rendering?
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Judah Himango wrote:
is this possible? Can I write a Silverlight application that uses a 3rd party COM object to do 3d rendering?
No. but Silverlight beta will have build-in 3D support.. And it will be released around March. (maybe, with MIX08)
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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Judah Himango wrote:
is this possible? Can I write a Silverlight application that uses a 3rd party COM object to do 3d rendering?
No. but Silverlight beta will have build-in 3D support.. And it will be released around March. (maybe, with MIX08)
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
Interesting, thanks for the answer. I had heard several months back that Silverlight would not have WPF's 3d support. This has changed?
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Interesting, thanks for the answer. I had heard several months back that Silverlight would not have WPF's 3d support. This has changed?
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Judah Himango wrote:
Interesting, thanks for the answer. I had heard several months back that Silverlight would not have WPF's 3d support. This has changed?
Initially, I also heard that 3D won't be supported in Silverlight in order to make SL "cross-browsers". but I read it somewhere mentioned that we may get 3D with a few limitations in Silverlight since a lot of people request this feature... As I'm not from UX team, I can't say about this for sure. but for the time being, Silverlight need to have a lot of things (data-binding, controls, layout and etc) so 3D won't be on high priority. I think we might heard something about this in MIX08.. :)
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)