Where Did Application.AcadApplication Go?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to write a method to zoom to the extents of a drawing in AutoCAD using C#.NET and the latest version of ObjectARX. I googled for an example of someone doing that and found this post which has the following method:

[CommandMethod("zoomExtentTest")]

public static void zoomExtentTest()

{

    //using InvokeMember to support .NET 3.5

    Object acadObject = Application.AcadApplication;

    acadObject.GetType().InvokeMember("ZoomExtents", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, acadObject, null);

}

When I tried to copy the code I got an error saying Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application has no defintion for AcadApplication so I'm guessing it got replaced with something else but I don't know where I'd find such a replacement or how I'd rewrite the above method to work with the current AutoCAD .NET API.

[Ed__Jobe · Accepted solution]

With the corrent 'using' statement, it should work.

using acApp = Autodesk.AutoCAD. ApplicationServices.Application;

I use acApp because if you reference System, you will end up with amibiguous references to 'Application'. So you need to change the following line to:

Object acadObject = acApp.AcadApplication;

Note that you could search for 'AcadApplication' in the Object Browser (Ctrl + W) to find references.

[Anonymous]

Figured out what happened, I was referencing

Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Core.Application

instead of

Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.

Thanks for your help!