AutoCad and .Net – I have to take the plunge out of VBA/Active X sadly

Active X and VBA (from Excel from example) are SOOOOO cheap to design and debug, but on a more corporate level, VBA is shunned by IT as “impossible to manage” … and, it can be but I am using git to manage everything and it works fine. Agreed though, all the cool people are using .NET so I will too. Here is a custom list of my own resources I used to re-aquaint myself. I did this once before and noticed that it would cost the customer much more to do .NET and they advised me that VBA would be just fine. Alas … I get paid to do what I am told. I will be using c# (the only thing cooler would be node … but that is there too:-))

• My First Plug-in Training
  • Download ObjectARX for your version of AutoCAD
  • Download and install the .NET Wizard
    • There is also a CHM reference and intellisense downloads for Visual Studio at this link
    • The .NET Wizards are WAAAAAY at the bottom (there are 2 kinds, we want the .NET one)
    • STOP HERE: Getting past these bullets was terrible… here is the solution: First, not sure if this will work in Community 2015 – but I had an old 2010 Ultimate installed – you ONLY SEE THE TEMPLATE IF YOU CHOOSE Framework >=4.0 (hint here and here)
  • You will get an email with a link to the Developer Center
  • Go to this guy’s blogs and put the 2015 xml help into 2014