[Insight-users] integration with Windows WPF

[Dan Mueller]

Hi Rick,

There are a number of options, including:

1. ManagedITK
    http://code.google.com/p/manageditk/

2. SimpleITK C# wrappers
    http://itk.org/gitweb?p=SimpleITK.git;a=tree

3. Custom P/Invoke DLL wrapper around native C++

4. Wait for WrapITK to support C#

I have personally used the first three options, so can provide some
advice regarding the best choice.

Option 1 is the easiest option (you can simply download the pre-built
.NET assemblies), but unfortunately ManagedITK is no longer supported
(so using it in a long term project may not be the best idea).
Coverage is about 60% (see
http://manageditk.googlecode.com/files/coverage.txt)

Option 2 has medium difficulty (currently the pre-build .NET
assemblies are not available for download, so you need to build
SimpleITK from source). In addition to this, SimpleITK is still in
alpha/beta stage and does not provide all ITK functionality. Not sure
of the coverage, but it's probably around 40% at the moment.

Option 3 is the most difficult and time consuming option, but provides
the most flexibility. Coverage is -- in theory -- 100% (meaning you
can use anything and everything in ITK).

Option 4 requires patience until WrapITK supports C# (due around Nov
2011?). Coverage will probably be around 85%.

Please let the mailing list know if you need further information about
one or more of the options.

Cheers, Dan

On 31 August 2011 18:04, Rick Frank <rickf at fullspectrumsw.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting using ITK and need to integrate with Windows C# / WPF application for the UI.
>
> If anyone has any tips on best practices for this I'd appreciate the advice.
>
> One idea that came to mind was to just run ITK as a separate process and have some sort of communication with the WPF interface App
> via some method TBD.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Rick Frank
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