I dabble with programming as a hobby. Most of my stuff is in Java, and is open source. However, I'm starting to play around with C# and development of tools for AutoCAD using the .NET API. I'm currently working my way through the AutoCAD .Net labs.
I noticed that there seems to be a lot of opportunity to condense code into some utility or helper classes. For example, there is a lot of method calls that take place to create a new Layer in a drawing. I wonder if that code couldn't be encapsulated in a Layer utility class with a method named createLayer that could then be used from client code.
These utility classes could be kept in a third party library and offered under an open source license. (This would be similar to tha Apache Jakarta Commons libraries for Java.)
Is there something similar to this already? I plan on writing some of these utility classes, and would be interested in contributing code under an open source license to such a library if it exists.
If one does not, perhaps we can set one up if there is enough interest.
Scott Huey
