AutoCAD .NET Wizard Installed but no VB Plugin

[joel_harris]

I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express Desktop and then installed the AutoCAD 2015 .Net Wizard (for AutoCAD 2015 and Visual Studio 2012) hoping to go through the "My First Plug-In Training" for VB .NET.  Unfortunately, although there were no errors when installing the wizards from the ADN site, it didn't install the VB plugin (it installed only the Visual C# plug-in).  I tried what another user had done, which was save an existing sample VB project as a template and that worked as far as having the template goes but the AutoCAD .NET Wizard Configurator doesn't run.  Any ideas why the wizard install from here (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1911627) didn't work? Is it because of the fact that I have VS Studio 2013?

[Keith.Brown]

The github page for the wizards has an update that says it was for the missing VB Express wizard.  Not sure if it will fix your issue.

Also instead of the Desktop Express version you should probably download the Community Edition.  It will be the only edition that is available in the future and it is free and much more powerful than the express editions.  i.e.  It is almost identical to the professional version.

[joel_harris]

Keith,

Thanks for the help!  I went ahead and installed the Community version, which is nice because it allows me to manually set the project References and Debug settings.  This turned out to be important because when I installed the Github version of the AutoCAD .NET Wizards it uninstalled the C# Wizard that I had previously installed (but at least it did add the VB Wizard).  So I'm all set - thanks again!

[Anonymous]

Hi Keith Brown,

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@Keith.Brown wrote:

The github page for the wizards has an update that says it was for the missing VB Express wizard.  Not sure if it will fix your issue.

Also instead of the Desktop Express version you should probably download the Community Edition.  It will be the only edition that is available in the future and it is free and much more powerful than the express editions.  i.e.  It is almost identical to the professional version.

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I had AutoCAD 2015, Visual Basic Express 2013, ObjectARX, AutoCAD .Net Wizards for AutoCAD 2015-2016. The Plug-in for VIsual Basic wasn´t showing for AutoCAD but it was showing for C# . Then I uninstalled Visual Basic Express 2013 and installed Visual Basic Comunity 2013 (according to your recommendation). Right now, AutoCAD plug-in isn´t showing up for neither C# nor VB. What could be the possible reason(s)?

[Anonymous]

Change the target framework drop down at the top of the new project wizard to .net 4.5. It should show up then. Found this accidentally while trying to figure out the same problem.

[kerry_w_brown]

Joel,

Not too far off topic:

Do you have any associates who could provide the "My First Plug-In Training" in C#. ??

Regards,

Kerry

[_gile]

Hi Kerry,

I wrote a C# conversion of "My First Plug-in" codes here (and a F# conversion at TheSwamp)

[kerry_w_brown]

Hi gile,

Thanks,

Yes I know of both those excellent contributions. Unfortunately both are a little away from the traffic mainstream.

You may have guessed that  I don't need this for myself, I'd just like to see AutoDesk become an equal opportunity information provider. I've been suggesting for years that samples should be available in both languages. ( look at the ObjectARX .net samples for a perfect example).

Most of the serious help here is provided by people who code in C#, why  can't AutoDesk come to the party and provide correct samples in that language for beginners ... particularly for something touted as the starting place for .net programming.

Stay Well,

[Anonymous]

Ok. I've been somewhat stumped all day today.

I've installed VS2013 ULTIMATE. I am running Autocad 2016. 

I've tried several times to install the NET WIZARD 2016 from the github website. 

I keep getting the error come up that says:

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro....2015 or Visual Express Edition 2015 must be present on the target machine.

The installer was interrupted before Autocad 2016 .NET Wizards could be removed.

You need to restart the installer and try again.

[Anonymous]

I have the same problem. Would you able to resolve it?

Thank you

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I have resolved it. I needed to download the proper installation file.

ran the executable. Problem solved.