.NET and AutoCAD managed assemblies

Hi,

We have here a project in .NET 2003 that needs to interact with AutoCAD
2005. On 1 developer machine AutoCAD is installed and the interaction is
working. But, on other developres computers without AutoCAD, which AutoCAD
assemblies I need to register in their GAC (and how ?) to get the .NET
project compiled ?? And then, can I add the references to AutoCAD assemblies
through COM tab, too ?
We cannot buy a copy of AutoCAD 2005 for each developer computer.

Thanks for any advice

 

Hi,

You can install the software on two computers and swap the licence between
them - or you net get a network licence and use it one at a time.

Check out subscribing to the Autodesk Developer's Network.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Thanks, but I'm looking for other solution, not to buy AutoCAD for each
station.
The other developers are not using AutoCAD, they just want to compile the
..NET solution. There is a way to acomplish this ?
We already have ADN for 5 users, but I just don't want to install it on each
machine.

Thnx

 

Just curious...

If you are an ADN member...
Why are you asking something like this on a 'public' forum?

Can't the ADN answer this for you?

Warren M

 

Their answer was to buy 100 licenses, one for each development computer. And
this is inacceptable if I want AutoCAD assemblies only for compiling in 97%,
and for testing and use in 3%. This is why I'm looking for a solution in
public forums, without luck 'till now. I think I'm not the only one with
this issue.
I'm still looking ...

 

I'm confused. If a developer does not have AutoCAD, why would he need
your AutoCAD projects? If this is simply about compiling during
downtime, you can always use NMAKE to build your projects from a
scheduled task.

 

We have a big .NET solution with 44 projects and only 1 project (with 1
developer involed in it) use AutoCAD (a small task to open a dwg file in
AutoCAD) :

AutoCAD2005.AcadApplication acadApp = null;

try

{

acadApp =
(AutoCAD2005.AcadApplication)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiv
eObject("AutoCAD.Application.16");

}

catch

{

try

{

acadApp = new AutoCAD2005.AcadApplicationClass();

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

Debug.Fail(ex.Message);

Trace.WriteLine(ex.Message);

// still cannot get autocad application

return;

}

}

acadApp.Visible = true;

// }

if (acadApp != null)

{

AutoCAD2005.AcadDocument acadDoc = acadApp.Documents.Open(fullPath,
Missing.Value, Missing.Value);

acadApp.ZoomAll();

if (printIt)

acadDoc.Plot.PlotToDevice(Missing.Value);

}

else

{

Trace.WriteLine("AutoCAD application could NOT be started. acadApp is null
!!??");

}

 

I'm following so far but here's where I get lost: why can't that one guy
compile the code and check in the resulting assembly?

 

Hi,

And not only that, but no client is going to be able to run this unless they
have an AutoCAD licence, so there seems liitle point in trying to do
anything on a computer without AutoCAD installed.

If you are an ADN member, as Warren said, you should be talking with them.

Go back to ADN and talk to them till you understand AutoCAD better.
Rephrase your questions so that your ask the right ones.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Thanks Frank. You put me back on the right way
My mistake was that I want to install AutoCAD assemblies in the GAC. I just
modify the Copy Local to true, setting in References for both acad dlls =>
dlls are in our bin folder of the C# project..
Now all the developers have references to local bin\dlls => compiling is
fine. Only ones with AutoCAD installed can open the dwg files.

Thank you all.

 

Can we do this legally? I thought an Acad version was needed on every
machine even to use the libraries.