New VBA.Net??? What to learn?

[Anonymous]

There is a rumor floating around that VBA.Net is being replaced... already!!
Since I am about to delve into the world of VBA programming... should I
learn VBA, VBA.Net or whatever the new VBA is?

Shawn Daniel
NorthStar Engineering Group, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Hi Shawn,

It depends entirely on what your programming ambitions are?

For professional programmers, it's hard to go past the .NET environment and
code in your language of choice. VB and C# are the most popular.

For others, the learning task and almost non-existance of help files and
sample code make it seriously hard work in the AutoCAD environment.
Hopefully this will change with time.

If you simply want to do normal things without delving behind the scenes to
seriously manipulate the AutoCAD environment then VBA is a clear choice.

It still helps to have some understanding of Lisp, but I would not undertake
Civil 3D programming with Lisp and Peter Funk (the API manager for Civil 3D)
has recently strongly advised against it in these NGs.

If you want to ring me at CADApps, I can expand on this.

--
Regards


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

wrote in message news:5313138@discussion.autodesk.com...
There is a rumor floating around that VBA.Net is being replaced... already!!
Since I am about to delve into the world of VBA programming... should I
learn VBA, VBA.Net or whatever the new VBA is?

Shawn Daniel
NorthStar Engineering Group, Inc.

[Anonymous]

I would agree with Laurie's recommendation.

Learning VBA is a great stepping stone to using/learning vb.net in the future if you need that additional capability. There are differences between vba and vb.net, but VBA will give you a great programming base and allow you to do alot of customizing.

The replace ment for vba will still allow you to apply your visual basic knowledge you gain from VBA.

Check out the Autodesk University handouts, from the AU site, or from recent years on AUGI.com (login required, it's free to sign up) look under education.

And the discussion groups have a lot of samples and people willing to help you learn.

Good luck.