Connect to a FDO via Plugin

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am developing a plugin in which the user logs on to a Oracle server.

When the login is accepted I would like to create and connect a FDO to the same database.

Is there a way to create a FDO connection via a VB.Net plugin?

/ Per

[norman.yuan]

When you say "plug-in", hopefully you mean DLL developed with AutoCAD .NET API. Yes, you can connect to FDO source, as long as the FDO provider is available in the computer. There are 2 ways to do that:

1. AutoCAD Map (since 2008/9) comes with "platform API" (or geospatial API) that deals with FDO (and more).

If you download AutoCAD Map ObjectARX SDK, you can find the API's documentation and sample code on how to connect AutoCAD with FDO data source and get FDO goemetries/data into AutoCAD Map.

You can also go to Autodesk's Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog and searcg for "FDO", which would bring you a few articles on this topic.

2. You can also bypass AutoCAD Map's platform API and directly use FDO API (AutoCAD installation get all FDO components installed).

In most cases, you'll go with 1.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

let me add some info's to Norman's suggestions:

You can download the ObjectARX kit for Map3D >>>there<<<

Within that you have samples that show's how to connect to source data (FDO) using API like the sample "Map Samples\Platform\BuildMap"

- alfred -

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I found a solution.

This is what I did.

Dim connManager As OSGeo.FDO.IConnectionManager = OSGeo.FDO.ClientServices.FeatureAccessManager.GetConnectionManager()
Dim conn As OSGeo.FDO.Connections.IConnection = connManager.CreateConnection("Autodesk.Oracle.3.9")
conn.ConnectionString = "Service=SRID;Username=USERNAME;Password=PASSWORD;Datastore=SCHEMA"
conn.Open()

.....

conn.Close()

Hope this helps someone!

// Per

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

thx for your feedback and for showing your code, great!

- alfred -

[fieldguy]

What reference is required for OSGeo.FDO.IConnectionManager?

[norman.yuan]

It is in assembly OSGeo.FDO.dll, which you can find with AutoCAD Map/Civil's installation location:

C:\...[AutoCAD201x]\Map\bin

To directly use FDO, you usually add references to:

OSGeo.FDO.dll

OSGeo.FDO.Common.dll

OSGeo.FDO.Geometry.dll

[fieldguy]

Perfect - thank you!