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How do I exit a Multiple Solution VB program?

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:32:04 GMT

I have a multiple solution VB 2005 program that uses the ActiveX/COM interface in AutoCAD 2007. Everything works as expected, except that I don't know how to gracefully exit the VB program after everything is finished. Here is a copy of the program that I am running:

>CommandMethod("Run", CommandFlags.Session)> _
Public Sub Run()
CreateDrawing()
ThisDrawing.Close
ThisDrawing.Application.Quit
' How do I exit the VB program after this?
End Sub

Can somebody please tell me what I need to do to gracefully exit the VB program after everything has finished? I tried Application.Exit, but that doesn't work.

Re: How do I exit a Multiple Solution VB program?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:16:35 GMT

What do you mean by 'exit' ?

Your solution is loaded into AutoCAD, and you
can't 'exit' it.

It will remaind loaded until AutoCAD shuts down.

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I have a multiple solution VB 2005 program that uses the ActiveX/COM interface in AutoCAD 2007. Everything works as expected, except that I don't know how to gracefully exit the VB program after everything is finished. Here is a copy of the program that I am running:

>CommandMethod("Run", CommandFlags.Session)> _
Public Sub Run()
CreateDrawing()
ThisDrawing.Close
ThisDrawing.Application.Quit
' How do I exit the VB program after this?
End Sub

Can somebody please tell me what I need to do to gracefully exit the VB program after everything has finished? I tried Application.Exit, but that doesn't work.

Re: How do I exit a Multiple Solution VB program?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:01:59 GMT

Thanks for your prompt reply. Perhaps what I should have asked is "How do I shut down AutoCAD without getting the following error:"

"Windows has triggered a breakpoint in acad.exe. This may be due to a corruption of the heap, and indicate a bug in acad.exe or any of the dlls it has loaded."

It would appear to me that I need to have something after

ThisDrawing.Application.Quit

so that AutoCAD shuts down without Windows flagging an error, but I don't know what. I tried application.exit, but that didn't work.

Re: How do I exit a Multiple Solution VB program?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:31:29 GMT

Tony:

Thanks for your help. I realize now what I was doing wrong. I was invoking AutoCAD from within Visual Studio, then I would quit AutoCAD, but Visual Studio was still in the picture. I guess what I was trying to find out is how to exit Visual Studio after exiting AutoCAD. Anyway, if I load the dll independently from Visual Studio everything works as expected, so that is what I'll do from now on.

Thanks again for your help.

Re: How do I exit a Multiple Solution VB program?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:56:45 GMT

Sorry, I haven't tried to quit AutoCAD from
an external client, so I have no idea why its
failing like that.

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Thanks for your prompt reply. Perhaps what I should have asked is "How do I shut down AutoCAD without getting the following error:"

"Windows has triggered a breakpoint in acad.exe. This may be due to a corruption of the heap, and indicate a bug in acad.exe or any of the dlls it has loaded."

It would appear to me that I need to have something after

ThisDrawing.Application.Quit

so that AutoCAD shuts down without Windows flagging an error, but I don't know what. I tried application.exit, but that didn't work.