topic Re : AutoCAD 2015 and VB.NET in .NET Forum

AutoCAD 2015 and VB.NET

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:18:47 GMT

Having issues with the following line of code:

Dim ThisDrawing As AcadDocument = DocumentExtension.GetAcadDocument(Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument)

I have narrowed down the error to the following process:

DocumentExtension.GetAcadDocument()

Can anyone please advise on if they are having the same issues? and how they are getting around it?

I am using Visual Studio 2010, with 2013 dll's (accoremgd, acdbmgd, acmgd, Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop, and Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Commom)

with a target framework of .NET 4

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Lee

Re : AutoCAD 2015 and VB.NET

_gile — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:48:44 GMT

Hi,

As you're using COM*, I'm afraid you'd have to build a new assembly targeting AutoCAD 2015 libraries and Framework 4.5 which requires Visual Studio 2012.

Another way should be using late binding which avoid referencing the COM libraries.

* most plain .NET applications keep on working on A2015 without any change or need to to recompile.

Re : AutoCAD 2015 and VB.NET

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:24:13 GMT

how do you mean COM?

Re : AutoCAD 2015 and VB.NET

_gile — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:27:55 GMT

I mean the AutoCAD COM interop API referenced by Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop, and Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common.

The COM interface is version dependent

You can read this:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-BFFF308E-CC10-4C56-A81E-C15FB300EB70