From the course: AutoCAD: Building Add-ins with C#
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IDE overview - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Building Add-ins with C#
IDE overview
- [Instructor] Before we really get into our AutoCAD plugin using C#.NET, it's good to know and take a look at where we're going to work, our environment. And so for most of our coding we're going to be using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 to write our code. Now most of the Visual Studio editions have a very similar interface. So if you don't have Community, you probably can navigate your way around as we discuss this user interface. Now for everything we're going to do in this introductory course, Visual Studio's Community edition, the free version, will accomplish the tasks we need. As we work through and we get more advanced with our code development, as you may start teaming up with others or you may be wanting to take advantage of other Microsoft subscription benefits, you may need the added functionality available in other versions of Visual Studio. Once you start Visual Studio you'll notice here that we have a start page. And everything in Visual Studio, all of the…
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