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Maya on .NET

For those of you who are already on the Maya Feedback Community forum (beta forum), it is probably not really new. But for all others, this is quite a big change - Maya will get a native .NET API for its Windows platform version. So I am proud to announce the Maya .NET API here. The Maya .NET API is a new technology that allows Maya plug-in developers to harness the full power of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. With the Maya... Read more →

Lost in classes

Both my class and Kevin's one at AU aren't yet full. If you haven't registered yet and going to AU, please give a stop to our classes, I promiss you'll not be disapointed. But for this you also need to register to these classes. There’s more detail on the class timing & description here: Using .NET Programming in Autodesk® Maya® Wednesday, Nov 28, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Kevin Vandecar, for the ADN M&E team will also be presenting in... Read more →

Enabling .Net in a Maya plug-in

Maya API is exposed in C++ or Python only. There is no .Net API, but in case someone needs to use a .Net assembly in his plug-in, here some code and instructions on how to proceed. #include #pragma comment(lib, "mscoree.lib") #include "mscorlib.tlh" //#include //#include //#import // "C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v1.1.4322\\mscorlib.tlb" // raw_interfaces_only rename( "ReportEvent", "reportEvent" ) ICLRMetaHost *pMetaHost =NULL ; ICLRRuntimeInfo *pRuntimeInfo =NULL ; ICorRuntimeHost *pCorRuntimeHost =NULL ; CComPtr spMyAssembly ; //- Call InitializeCLR() from initializePlugin() bool InitializeCLR (PCWSTR pszVersion... Read more →