VB.NET Programming for AutoCAD Customization - Level 1 [Spiral-bound]

Jerry Winters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 2007

"VB.NET Programming for AutoCAD Customization - Level 1"is the perfect guide for individuals wanting to begin learning about AutoCAD/VB.NET programming. In addition to the book's content, the DVD that accompanies the book contains 4 hours of training to get the reader started understanding and writing programs in a hurry. In addition to the trainin content on the DVD, Code Snippets are provided for most of the code in this book as well as completed projects. Code Snippets allow the reader/student to insert code, avoiding the frustrating experience of typing it all in.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction and Installation
2. VB.NET Project Structure and Primer
3. Netload and Debug
4. Transactions
5. Block Tables and Block Table Records
6. Creating 2-D Entities
7. Blocks and Attributes
8. Layers, Linetypes, Layouts, and more
9. Cloning
10. Construction Geometry
11. Getting User Input
12. Selection Sets
13. Modifying Objects
14. VB.NET Code Essentials
15. VB.NET Graphical User Interface
16. Debugging in VB.NET
17. Extracting Block Information
18. Extracting Drawing Information
19. Extracting to Text Files
20. Extracting to XML Files
21. Extracting to Excel
22. Extracting to Databases
23. Extracting from DWGs
24. Distributing our Programs
25. Index

This is a Level 1 book. What does this mean? It means there is much more to learn after learning all this book has to offer. This book is for those with little to no AutoCAD / VB.NET programming experience.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jerry Winters is a well-known Author and Instructor teaching VBA and VB.NET programming for AutoCAD Customization. He is a top-rated instructor at Autodesk University (an annual event hosted by Autodesk) and has trained individuals from companies large and small.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 546 pages
• Publisher: VB CAD, Inc. (April 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892131102
• ISBN-13: 978-1892131102
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,355,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth its Weight in Gold, October 26, 2007

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Phil Kreiker - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VB.NET Programming for AutoCAD Customization - Level 1 (Spiral-bound)

If you're looking for truly useful information on customizing AutoCAD with VB.NET, this book is the only place to go.

The solid, clearly written example code shows you how to interface with the user, the AutoCAD database, and the VB.NET gui.

This book has a prominent place on my desk.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VB.Net Programming, February 8, 2008

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Kenneth R. Jolly "Ken Jolly" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VB.NET Programming for AutoCAD Customization - Level 1 (Spiral-bound)

The book is well written, has tons of code snippets and provides a template so you can use the Express version of Visual Studio to work with AutoCad references.

Met the author at AU, liked his teaching style and realized he is one of the people that actually knows his subject.

Never made the .Net upgrade from VB6.0 and as Autocad enters the 64 bit enviroment, realize it is the best programming enviroment to work with Autocad. This book specialises with the intricies of effectively programming AutoCad.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This books a life saver, February 8, 2008

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A. Proctor "aProctor" (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VB.NET Programming for AutoCAD Customization - Level 1 (Spiral-bound)

I'm a .net programmer with no autoCad experience. I was recently assigned a project that required autoCad customization with a future of being web-based.

I purchased this book hoping that it would give me the staples needed to understanding how .net works in conjunction with .net. Since purchasing this book, it's done that and more.

The author, Jerry Winters, does a great job of incorporating all the essential basics and more. He clearly explains how to set up .net so that it can communicate and have access to the api .net libraries for autoCad. He also provides a template that ... when installed, makes creating new projects a breeze.

I've been able to learn and now understand basic concepts such as how to call my .net sub from autoCad and how to create an interface that will allow the user to interact with the application.

I've also been able to create polylines and blocks with code. Jerry's book comes with a snippet for each segment he features in his book which allowed me to go through the book at a much faster pace and step through the code (debug mode) which really helped me to understand what was really going on. I've also been able to really use several of the snippets in my current project.

This book truly is a useful tool and I would recommend it to anyone.

R Proctor