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Christopher Diggins

The 3ds Max SDK Blog | Christopher Diggins

The 3ds Max SDK blog is hosted by Christopher Diggins the documentation writer for the 3ds Max SDK. Christopher will be writing about various topics related to plug-in development for 3ds Max and using the 3ds Max SDK, with occasional gust-posts and interviews with 3ds Max experts. Before joining Autodesk in September 2008, Christopher was an SDK writer for Microsoft, and before that a freelance programmer and writer. Christopher has written numerous article for Doctor Dobbs Journal and the C++ Users Journal, and co-authored the C++ Cookbook from O'Reilly. Christopher is a programming language geek, and in his spare time likes to implement programming languages with cute names like "Cat" and "Heron".

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Working at the Speed of Thought

Tools and processes sometimes improve or hinder our productivity in hard to measure ways, by helping us get into the zone, or knocking us out of it.

Posted: Aug 05, 2009
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.NET Class Libraries, Strong Signing, and the Global Assembly Cache

Have you ever tried to write a .NET class library? If you are like me you may have struggled a bit with the global assembly cache and strong signing. This blog shares some of my problems.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009
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Views: 794
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Autodesk Developer Center Webpage Updates

The Autodesk.com developer center web pages have been udpated for 3ds Max and other M&E products.

Posted: Jul 16, 2009
Category: API
Comments: 3
Views: 1032
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Template Plug-in Projects for 3ds Max

I discovered a neat trick recently that allowed me to view all of the different kinds of C++ files generated by the 3ds Max SDK AppWizard, effectively providing me with a set of template plug-ins.

Posted: Jul 10, 2009
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Comments: 2
Views: 1035
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3ds Max SDK … using what library when

We are looking into better ways to document the 3ds Max SDK mapping of what API element goes with what library (.lib) file, so that you only link what you must with your plug-in. For now this excel sheet should help.

Posted: May 08, 2009
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Views: 1809
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Major SDK Documentation Update

I recently posted a new version of 3ds Max 2010 SDK at [url="http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax-sdk-docs"]http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax-sdk-docs[/url]. This is appropriate even if you haven't yet upgraded to 2010.

Posted: Apr 20, 2009
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Comments: 3
Views: 1128