The short answer is: YES Bricscad supports .NET

The question is a bit vague but here is my attempt at answering it:

1) .NET framework I suppose many of your developers compare this to what is available in AutoCAD. AutoCAD provides so-called .NET wrappers which expose their ARX in .NET libraries. Currently Bricscad does not (yet) include similar (BRX/ARX) .NET libraries or wrappers. BRX application have to be written in C++. When you create a Bricscad application under .NET (with visual studio or visual studio express) you include COM libraries into your .NET solution. Note that this approach is also widely used under AutoCAD development. As you know, both COM and .NET are of course Microsoft inventions. Microsoft has decided to promote .NET as a replacement of COM. Of course in order to be successful with the new .NET technology they had to offer bridges between both technologies.(see COM .NET interoperability) VBA (which is another Microsoft invention) is based on COM. When you create VBA in Bricscad (and in AutoCAD) you are still using 'older?' COM technology. Microsoft's replacement for VBA is VSTA. I believe Autodesk is currently evaluating whether or not to supply a VSTA-IDE as a replacement of the VBA-IDE. On AutoCAD 2010 VBA-IDE is no longer installed (and there is no VSTA-IDE included). Users who still wish to use VBA have to perform a separate registration/download/install process for this. See following link: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12729484&linkID=9240618 The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework available with several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library of coded solutions and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. You could say that .NET is Microsoft's version of Java (Java also runs on a virtual machine). An important notion in .NET is managed code: Managed code is computer program code that executes under the management of a virtual machine, unlike unmanaged code, which is executed directly by the computer's CPU. Currently when you create a .NET application for Bricscad a portion of it (namely the part that interfaces with Bricscad's automation) is unmanaged code. The benefits of managed code include programmer convenience and enhanced security guarantees. The specific term managed code is particularly pervasive in the Microsoft world. Microsoft's most common languages for creating managed code are C#, Visual Basic.NET and C++/CLI

2) Visual Studio (Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 2005 ,Visual Studio 2008) This is the replacement of previous Visual Studio 6.0. It is typically used when creating .NET code but the tool also includes the new and preferred C++ compiler. When creating BRX (ARX) application you will have to use this vs2005 compiler. However strictly speaking ARX applications build with this version of Visual Studio are NOT .Net applications. The generated code is purely unmanaged C++ which is executed directly by the computer's CPU.

Ferdinand Janssens

Wird .NET von Bricscad unterstützt