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Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my computer

ganderson — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 07:12:30 GMT

I have installed Visual Studio Express and the ARX Wizard on my lap top with the hope of running the programs that I developed on my desktop away from the office. The installation seemed to be fine (I see the AutoCad C# plug in) and can compile my code, but when I do a NETLOAD in AutoCad, nothing happens. I noticed that when I start a project, I don't get a .csproj file, only a .csproj.user file. Can someone help me get this going?

Thanks,

~Vonnie

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

CADbloke — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:08:24 GMT

Use the https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx instead, it is basically the Pro version for free.

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

ganderson — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:34:13 GMT

This download is for Visual Studio, I thought we were supposed to run Visual Studio Express. Will this work with the AutoDesk Wizard?

Thanks for your help.

~Vonnie

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

CADbloke — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:33:07 GMT

Yes, it will work much better with Wizards etc than the Express versions. There is really no good reason to use Express any more when the Community version is so much better - and free (unless you area big business),

You don't really need the wizards - they just add a few references and set copylocal to false and add a class or 2.

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

ganderson — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:48:57 GMT

I've installed Visual Studio 2015 but don't see the Autodesk template or the C# plug in. Do I need to reinstall the ObjectARX stuff again?

Thanks,

~Vonnie

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

CADbloke — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:14:12 GMT

Yes but the wizards they've posted on Github are quite out of date - https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/AutoCAD-Net-Wizards and also, they tend to be slow in supporting the newest versions of Visual Studio.

The wizards at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=1911627&siteID=123112 only support up to Visual Studio 2013.

That's how they do things in this space ... s l o w l y.

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:42:21 GMT

Hey It seems like you have some knowledge on this,

I am fairly new to this. I have just downloaded the Microsoft Visual studio Community 2015, and then followed by downloading a direct link to the ObjectARX 2017 SDK. After that I proceeded to downloading and running the posted AutoCAD_2017_dotnet_wizard.zip file. I went through and downloaded everything. But when I go to Microsoft Visual Studio and go to the autodesk folder/tab it is empty. Is there any advice here?

Re: Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my comp

ganderson — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 05:50:14 GMT

Did you check to see if you have your zip file in the templates folder? By default, custom templates are located in: \My Documents\Visual Studio <Version>\Templates\ProjectTemplates\<Language>\, so you should see the .zip file there. If it isn't, you could try putting it there and see if it fixes your problem.

~G.