How to get user preferences (options) without COM api?

[ViktorCAD]

Anyone know if it is possible to get to profile preferences without COM api? So that I can read settings like what version to save the file as...

I noticed that preferences are only exposed in COM api, and I'd hate to bring COM api in just for this little thing, not that there's anything wrong with COM api, i just don't want to deal with another reference.

Thanks,

Viktor.

[Anonymous]

You can use COM objects without having to import the COM references,

but it's a bit more involved in C# (In VB, it works the same way it did in

VBA, declaring COM objects as 'Object' and using late binding).

In C# late binding requires calls to InvokeMember() on the object returned

by calling GetType() on a COM object.

There should be some examples here, and searching on 'InvokeMember'

should turn them up.

[ViktorCAD]

Thanks Tony, trying to do that now. I know in some cases with AutoCad if you don't reference the library you won't get the same results, as I found out some things like zoomextents don't work well with late binding, or maybe it was just me.

[Anonymous]

I very much doubt that late binding would have different results than

early binding, unless there is some discrepancy in the arguments passed,

whcih are not type-checked by the compiler as they are with early binding.