Problem Installing and running C-Sharp with Visual Studio Express on my computer

[ganderson]

I have installed Visual Studio Express and the ARX Wizard on my lap top with the hope of running the programs that I developed on my desktop away from the office. The installation seemed to be fine (I see the AutoCad C# plug in) and can compile my code, but when I do a NETLOAD in AutoCad, nothing happens. I noticed that when I start a project, I don't get a .csproj file, only a .csproj.user file. Can someone help me get this going?

         Thanks,

                  ~Vonnie

[CADbloke]

Use the https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx instead, it is basically the Pro version for free.

[ganderson]

This download is for Visual Studio, I thought we were supposed to run Visual Studio Express. Will this work with the AutoDesk Wizard?

             Thanks for your help.

                              ~Vonnie

[CADbloke]

Yes, it will work much better with Wizards etc than the Express versions. There is really no good reason to use Express any more when the Community version is so much better - and free (unless you area big business),

You don't really need the wizards - they just add a few references and set copylocal to false and add a class or 2.

[ganderson]

I've installed Visual Studio 2015 but don't see the Autodesk template or the C# plug in. Do I need to reinstall the ObjectARX stuff again?

         Thanks,

                    ~Vonnie

[CADbloke]

Yes but the wizards they've posted on Github are quite out of date - https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/AutoCAD-Net-Wizards and also, they tend to be slow in supporting the newest versions of Visual Studio.

The wizards at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=1911627&siteID=123112 only support up to Visual Studio 2013.

That's how they do things in this space ... s l o w l y.

[Anonymous]

Hey It seems like you have some knowledge on this,

I am fairly new to this. I have just downloaded the Microsoft Visual studio Community 2015, and then followed by downloading a direct link to the ObjectARX 2017 SDK. After that I proceeded to downloading and running the posted AutoCAD_2017_dotnet_wizard.zip file. I went through and downloaded everything. But when I go to Microsoft Visual Studio and go to the autodesk folder/tab it is empty. Is there any advice here?

[ganderson]

Did you check to see if you have your zip file in the templates folder? By default, custom templates are located in: \My Documents\Visual Studio <Version>\Templates\ProjectTemplates\<Language>\, so you should see the .zip file there. If it isn't, you could try putting it there and see if it fixes your problem.

              ~G.