topic Re: Visual Studio Wizard in Civil 3D Customization Forum

Visual Studio Wizard

carlosrdrzalns — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:14:59 GMT

Hi,

I have been looking for Visual Studio Project Wizard for Civil 3D and I have been unable to find it. I have also searched for AutoCAD Wizard and I am unable to find them, even knowing that it exists, as it is shown in "My First AutoCAD Plug-In" session.

Is there any page with all Autodesk Product Wizard?

Regards

Re: Visual Studio Wizard

norman.yuan — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:25:27 GMT

AutoCAD .NET project wizard is certainly not a "must-have" to get started with AutoCAD .NET API programming, nor the "My First AutoCAD Plug-in" is suitable sample for beginner to learn, IMO.

This link would be good help:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/visual-studio-2019-install-autocad-customization/td-p/9988348

Re: Visual Studio Wizard

carlosrdrzalns — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:08:27 GMT

Thank you very much, at least I get the AutoCAD wizard from that post.

I am not really a beginner, not so fast from it, but neither beginner, but I get my computer formatted and I lost the Civil 3D template developed by my, and AutoCAD and Revit Wizard.

Re: Visual Studio Wizard

JamesMaeding — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:48:56 GMT

I've been doing .net progs for acad and bricscad for a while now and heavily recommend not using a wizard or template. The problem is if you need that, you are not up to speed enough on .net to maintain your tool.

The first thing you learn with .net is how to add references, and then a using statement (imports for vb.net...).

If you cannot do that from scratch, you will run into many problems as time goes on.

In particular, autocad programs will act funny now and then, as .net framework versions change.

Anyway, the fact is its so simple to add the acad references, and set using statements, you really must do it from scratch in the beginning.

Once you have that down, make a simple acad program with the stuff added, and do saveas on it for future, if you want to speed things up. That typically means a saveas on the solution first, and one on the project so its not looking to "template" project.

As you get more into things, you will need to add references to acad com, and other things so you must not get lost in that. Don't fall in the trap of mystery inner workings with .net wizards.

Re: Visual Studio Wizard

carlosrdrzalns — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:18:25 GMT

Thanks you very much for the recommendation, I will keep it in mind. I know that it is quite easy to add references and write using statement, I just was looking for a tool to speed things up as you said, but if both of you recommend me that hard not to use the wizard, the best I can do is to listen to the experts.

Again, thank you both very much,

Best Regards,