Integrating CUDA and Windows Forms or WPF

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hi!

I need a GUI for my Cuda application. Currently I have a console application, which is fine for me, but not for others.

I am developing for Windows 7 using Visual Studio 2010 and Cuda 3.2 build customizations.

Can I simply create a GUI in Windows Forms / WPF and then just state an extern “C” funtion, that will be resolved to a function calling a Cuda kernel? I tried to do so just now and I had a lot of compilation errors, including some CLR stuff. Blah. After a quick googling I have an impression, that it isn’t as simple as it seemed.

I am waiting for your ideas and opinions

Kindest regards,
conicall

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Use WPF it is the new trend, I presume that you are using C# with NET.

So read this article :

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/rafaelwo/cuda-integration-with-C-Sharp/

The code is also given there in a ZIP file. It is the same old story of handling unmanaged DLLs in C# so be patient and learn the way. I do not know about CUDA.NET hopefully some time NVIDIA is going to buy it and provide it to the users of NET programming because they are increasing rapidly.

Cheers,

Alexander.

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Thank you very much! I followed the tutorial and I have just succeeded at calling a CUDA kernel from C# WPF application External Image

Thank you very much!