helix upgrade

[marbelarrietaGlobant]

Purpose

• updates to helix 2.24.0
• recompiles shaders
• updates hlsl common classes that our shaders reference
• move visualization tests from /src to /test
• removes all net48 conditional code and references related to helix.

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• Changes to the API follow Semantic Versioning and are documented in the API Changes document.
• This PR modifies some build requirements and the readme is updated
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[sm6srw]

I see this failure on the 4.8 build: E:\Builds\Dynamo_master\Dynamo\src\DynamoCoreWpf\DynamoCoreWpf.csproj(1722,3): error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. The 'ItemGroup' start tag on line 134 position 4 does not match the end tag of 'Project'. Line 1722, position 3

[marbelarrietaGlobant]

I see this failure on the 4.8 build: E:\Builds\Dynamo_master\Dynamo\src\DynamoCoreWpf\DynamoCoreWpf.csproj(1722,3): error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. The 'ItemGroup' start tag on line 134 position 4 does not match the end tag of 'Project'. Line 1722, position 3

@sm6srw I can't replicate that, actually DynamoCoreWpf.csproj doesn't have a 1722 line. Can you please give me more details?

[sm6srw]

@marbelarrietaGlobant I have only seen it on one of the build machines. Can you resolve the conflicts and push again? Thanks!

[github-actions]

⚠️ [run-bin-diff] - Files Added/Deleted::4 new file(s) have been added
⚠️ [run-bin-diff-net60-windows] - Files Added/Deleted::5 new file(s) have been added and 2 file(s) have been deleted!
(Updated: 2023-07-27-19:44:15)

[sm6srw]

LGTM!

[pinzart90]

so we have 32 bit support here just because this code has been copy pasted right >?

[mjkkirschner]

yeah, I also asked about this class being removed here:
helix-toolkit/helix-toolkit#2004 ... so - not sure it will work.

you can give this blog post on a related tool a read if you are interested -
https://www.toptensoftware.com/blog/nvpatch-how-it-works/
though it seems we might be able to do something now that .net supports native external callers ...

anyway, that blog post and this method don't seem to work the same way so there must be more to it than an exported member in the pe file. I guess?

For the time being, I think this is safe enough even if it does not work - we'll just have to pay attention to reports of users needing to explicitly set hardware accel again for sandbox - like back in the dark ages 😉 )

[pinzart90]

one question about NVidia native binary import then LGTM