calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

[Anonymous]

What is the vault name or procedure for getting an autoCAD drawing from the vault

example from the c drive I use:

g_acadDoc = m_AcadApp.Documents.Open("C:\VAULT_WIP\DWG\L324532.dwg")

What would you use instead of C:\ 

[Redmond.D]

You call DownloadFile, which gives you a byte array.  You can then save the array to any location on disk that you want.  See the VaultFileBrowser sample in the SDK for an example of a download.

[Anonymous]

Isn't there a way to map the database as a drive letter?  or server path?  It would be so much easier for programmers.

In other EMDS you can map the main vault as a drive letter i.e V:\

[Redmond.D]

Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.ExtensibilityTools.dll has some utilities to help with this.

There is a DownloadFile function which will download to the user's working folder location.