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This post was queued up for Friday, but a technical issue (i.e. probably user error) prevented it from going out. So here we are on Sunday, instead, for another installment of Wayne Brill's AutoCAD .NET training DevTV series (to complement those from previous weeks). Today's session is focused on working with dictionaries and other types […]
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They've been at it again. Stephen and Fenton have recorded another informative DevCast, this time on the new simplified application loading mechanism in AutoCAD 2012, the Autoloader. I'll be following up with my own experience of using Autoloader, in due course, but this should be a great "getting started" resource.
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As promised, last week, today we're going to look at a technique pointed out to me by Viru Aithal for calling unexposed ObjectARX member functions via P/Invoke. It sometimes happens that ObjectARX (unmanaged C++) methods fail to get exposed immediately via .NET, which is currently the case for MLeader.Scale (both getting and setting this property). […]
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From time to time I listen to the .NET Rocks show – I don't get the chance to listen every week, but I do browse through the RSS items I get for the show episodes and find some time to put those I find of particular interest on in the background while I'm working on […]
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Here's an idea I've been playing around with for some time: say you want to capture geometry as code for pasting back into your application, how do you do it? For instance, sometimes you might want to model geometry using AutoCAD and then capture it as code for later generation at runtime. I have a […]
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In the last post we created a basic installer to deploy our product files and source into a user-specified location. In this post we'll look at the Registry-related activities that need to happen from our installer. One of the files we added to the install project was the RegDL executable. We're going to add some […]
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It's been a long time since I've dabbled with software deployment technology, which is absolutely fine by me (in my experience installation issues are some of the gnarliest to deal with, so – presumably like the majority of developers, with apologies to Install specialists – I prefer not having to care about them, myself). But […]
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I received this question by email from Chris Witt: I know you can load specific linetypes with vb.net, but is there a way to load *all* line types from a specified lin file with vb.net without having to name each one? This is an easy one, as the Database.LoadLineTypeFile() method supports wildcard characters in the […]
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This week I'm going to posting a few topics related to F#, as it feels as though I've been neglecting it, of late. And as this technology is going to hit the mainstream very soon – when Visual Studio 2010 ships – it seems all the more important to keep one's F# skills honed. We're […]
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I received a really intriguing question by email from Dave Wolfe on Friday afternoon: Due to your post on the topic, I wanted to improve my installation method for .Net modules. While examining the topic, I ran into a few concerns that shaped my development process. The game changer is that I couldn't find a […]