"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 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.