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C# programming reference

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:41:11 GMT

Hi all,

Is there a book or reference site like the autocad 2006 vba programmer's reference. For C# programming?

thank you and kind regards,

Tramyer

Re: C# programming reference

_gile — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:26:57 GMT

Hi,

From this page, you can get the ObjectARX Managed .NET Developer's Guide and the ObjectARX Managed .NET Reference Guide.

You should also download and install the ObjectARX SDK corresponding to the targetd AutoCAD version. The ObjectARX\docs folder contains the arxmgd.chm file (managed class reference guide).

Re: C# programming reference

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:16:37 GMT

Thanks a lot mate. Does this page contains some sample in C# coding?

thanks in advance

Re: C# programming reference

_gile — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:51:13 GMT

Yes it does and so does the ObjectARX 20XX\samples\dotNet folder.

Re: C# programming reference

TiStars — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:00:48 GMT

Hi Gilles,

Thank you very much for you links, but can you tell me how can I use "ObjectARX SDK" after install it ? I see nothing change.
should I just open chm files in "C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_ObjectARX_2018_Win_64_and_32_Bit\docs" for reference ?

Regards,

Re: C# programming reference

_gile — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:07:25 GMT

'Installing' ObjectARX SDK just extract the "ObjectARX 20XX" folder (typically in C:) which contains the docs sub-folder and some other ones.

Re: C# programming reference

TiStars — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 02:33:07 GMT

you are righ Gilles, but there is a "setup.exe" in "C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_ObjectARX_2018_Win_64_and_32_Bit\docs", and I run it. I noticed when I "setup" ObjectARX 2016 , a dialogue pop up asking me to choose VS2010/VS2013 （Maybe the version number is not right, i can't remember exactly）, but there is nothing pop up in ObjectARX_2018

Re: C# programming reference

TiStars — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 04:25:57 GMT

I guess "Setup.exe" is just a installer for VS project wizard? not for HELP files?

Re: C# programming reference

_gile — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:16:22 GMT

No, it has nothing to do with the project wizard.

This setup launches the 'ObjectARX Documentation.msi' installer to integrate the Managed .NET Reference Guide with Visual Studio.

Please read the Documentation > Managed .NET section of this page.

Re: C# programming reference

TiStars — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:43:39 GMT

Thanks Gilles, but what shall I do after "integrate the Managed .NET Reference Guide with Visual Studio", I press F1 on some class name which I want to know more info, but it guides me to Microsoft pages for C#.

Re: C# programming reference

_gile — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 06:34:11 GMT

I don't know. I didn't not install these extensons because I use Visual Studio 2017 for AutoCAD 2010 to 2018.

Re: C# programming reference

TiStars — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:14:58 GMT

Maybe no one knows, I am using VS 2017 as well. C3D API reference is good enough to search and locate what you need, and there are examples, excellent. but Managed API for ACAD? One can almost get nothing except a Function/Class name.

Cheers