Overview
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Discover how to work with the AutoCAD .NET application program interface (API) and the Visual Basic .NET programming language to create a working plugin.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Visual Studio IDE overview
- Setting up your environment
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Create a project using the Autodesk wizard
- Understanding project properties
- Class overview
- Create a class
- Create a command routine
- Create a function
- Create a project manually
- Using conditions
- Working with strings
- Collections and loops
- How to use error trapping
- Working with AutoCAD application properties
- Working with the DocumentCollection
- Working with a document's properties
- Creating a new drawing
- Working with database properties
- Understanding ObjectIds
- Working with transactions
- Working with TableRecords
- Creating a line
- Getting a user-specified point
- Getting a user-specified distance
- Getting a user-selected entity
- Getting a selection set
- Using input keywords
- Creating a base class object
- Inheriting a base class object
- Using the shared keyword
- Introduction to WPF
- Create a window
- Binding data
- Bringing it all together
