Crazy Stupid: AForge .Net Visual Studio 2010 Setup Tutorial

AForge.NET is an open source C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence - image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, machine learning, robotics, etc (more).

Assuming that you installed visual studio.Lets start with setting environment for using AForge .Net in Visual Studio 2010.First we have to download the AForge .Net Framework.

Note : AForge .Net Framework most suitable for windows OS only.

After AForge .Net Framework is installed we will able to see the binaries here

C:\Program Files\AForge.NET\Framework\Release

The binaries are installed based upon the installation path you select.

Now launch you Visual Studio(I am demoing this with Visual Studio 2010).

Click File -> New -> Project

A New Project wizard appear select "Windows Form Application" and give name of our project as AForgeTutorial.

Now we will add AForge libraries to our project.To add AForge .Net References Right Click on the Reference folder in Solution Explorer and then click "Add Reference".

Now click the Browse tab and then Browse to the folder where we installed AForge .Net libraries are installed.Select the .dll files you want and the click ok.

In my next blog i am going to show how to get live feed from the web cam to do that we need .dll files like Aforge.dll, Aforge.Video, Aforge.Video.Direshow.dll.

Now you can see the selected .dll's are updated on the reference folder in Solution Explorer window.