auto cad api using vb.net

[Anonymous]

Good Morning,

I am a vb.net developer with no knowledge of autocad (we are using 2014).   I was assigned a task to take window dimensions from our front end erp package and pass them into values in a drawing template, regenerate and save as dwg file.    All the examples i find are for including a vb.net dll inside autocad.  This is not what i want to do.  I want a standalone vb.net application (2010) that runs periodically, grabs new data processes thru autocad and sends a dwg to a network folder.   I am looking for somewhere to start.  Does anyone know were i can find some documentation that would be helpful. 

Second question,  for this type of project do i need to buy a running version of autocad just for vb.net to access and should it be a network version?. (obviously we already have copies for our drafters)

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks.

Dana Zimmerman