Gilles,
As to the books on programming AutoCAD using the .NET api, I haven't seen
any.
Not in bookshops, that is.
I'm afraid the days when you could buy books on (serious) programming and
actually learn it in them are over.
A title such as "Programming AutoCAD using .Net" doesn't have much chance of
becoming a commercial succes.
So it's highly probable it will not materialize.
Greetings.
"Gilles Plante" wrote in message
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Nemorarius,
I remember when I started programming AutoCAD R14 in VBA. The documentation
was also horrible. Coding simple things turned into a nightmare. Even today,
some of the examples in the AutoCAD documentation are buggy, or absent.
Internet came to the rescue, and books became available.
Regarding .Net, are there any good books helping programming AutoCAD using
.Net (I know, it is the $ 50,000 question...) ?
Gilles
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Hello Gilles,
I'm currently using VS2005 Standard Edition and COM Interop. That is, I'm
translating automation servers I've written in Delphi and some lisp code as
well.
I've also been tinkering with the .NET api for a while.
As to the first: I've never worked more comfortably with COM before.
As to the second: the stuff is awfully underdocumented not to say
undocumented. The only companion you have seems to be the Visual Studio
object browser. Unless you have additional information (which I don't) you
're going to lose a lot of time just figuring out things. After a while, I
couldn't help feeling like some guinea pig.
I'm not quite unexperienced. I've been progragramming rather a lot since
1979.
Still, this is my own and personal opinion. May very well be I'm just too
plain stupid for the .NET api
Just play around with it for a while... The best way to find out.
Greetings.