AutoCAD 2018 plugin development using Visual Studio 2017

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I found the following information from Autodesk Knowledge Network.
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If you are targeting AutoCAD 2017 or AutoCAD 2017-based programs, or AutoCAD 2018 or AutoCAD 2018-based programs, you should use:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6
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It is hard to buy Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 on market now, most available is Visual Studio 2017. The Visual Studio 2017 supports .NET Framework versions 4.7, 4.6.2, 4.6.1, 4.6, 4.5.2, and 3.5.

Can Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 be used to develop AutoCAD 2018 plugin using AutoCAD 2018 .NET API? Which release of Visual Studio 2017 should be used?

Thanks,

[BKSpurgeon]

get Visual Studio Community edition instead.

MSFT will do anything to get developers to develop on microsoft products, hence the cheapness

rgds

Ben

[BKSpurgeon]

https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15

[Anonymous]

Hi Ben, thank you for replying,

Do you confirm that Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 can be used for AutoCAD 2018 plugin development?

[_gile]

Hi

Visual Studio 2017 can be used for AutoCAD 2018 and all previous versions supporting .NET.

A good practice is to target the .NET Framework version corresponding to the one installed by the targeted AutoCAD version (4.6 for AutoCAD 2018).

[Juergen_Becker]

Hi,

I'm using VS 2015 to develop AutoCAD 2014-2017 and AutoCAD 2018 apps.

So it works.

Download the community version as mentioned above.

Regards Jürgen

[Oscar_ITzone]

Where can I find an update of this table correlating AutoCAD versions and .Net framework to target?

Thanks!

Oscar

[_gile]

You can also see this page from the documentation.

[Oscar_ITzone]

Thanks for the link!!