topic Re: Autocad Map 2004 & VB.NET in .NET Forum

Autocad Map 2004 & VB.NET

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:29:21 GMT

Hi all,
Is it possible to code for AutoCAD Map 2004 using VB.NET? I have been coding in VBA for some months now and i am new to .NET. Could you give the names of the dll files i need to refer to my project in .NET? I searched around and all the help seems to be from version 2007 onwards.
Thank you

Re: Autocad Map 2004 & VB.NET

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:09:41 GMT

With VB.NET you can do two type of AcadMap programming: ObjectARX .NET
API/ObjectARX MAP .NET API and COM API. However, with Acad(MAP2004), you can
only do the latter. That is, you can either doing AutoCAD(MAP) automation
from external application, as you do with VB5/6, or use VB.NET to create
COM-able DLL and use it in conjunction with VBA code. In that sense, it is
basically the same as you do as with VBA.

This NG, is mainly for ObjectARX .NET API, (some regular poster/replier may
know ObjectARX MAP .NET API, also). If this is what you want to explore, you
need at least Acad(MAP) 2005, and AcadMAP 2006 is the first version that you
can really do something useful with .NET API.

"vbawinger" wrote in message news:5896800@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi all,
Is it possible to code for AutoCAD Map 2004 using VB.NET? I have been
coding in VBA for some months now and i am new to .NET. Could you give the
names of the dll files i need to refer to my project in .NET? I searched
around and all the help seems to be from version 2007 onwards.
Thank you

Re: Autocad Map 2004 & VB.NET

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:29 GMT

Hello Norman,
Thanks for this valuable piece of information. It looks like it would take at least six months before i would be able to touch Map 2005..Back to basics with VBA..
Have a nice day..