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Setting up your environment

Setting up your environment - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting up your environment

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- [Narrator] To begin our first project within Microsoft Visual Studio, our very first AutoCAD.net plugin project and we need to have the correct files that will reference that AutoCAD.net application programming interface or oftentimes, we'll see it abbreviated as API. That Application Programing Interface. Now, to build at that .net plugin and to take advantage of the .net API we need at least three required libraries. Libraries are going to have the extension .dll for the managed type work that we're going to do with the .net. That .dll actually stands Dynamic Link Library so oftentimes we refer to them as libraries or .dll files. Now you see the three that are required on the screen, AcCoreMgd, AcDbMgd, and AcMgd. Now the AC is short for AutoCAD. The Mgd stands for managed or .net API. Now we need those three to any type of development with the AutoCAD.net API in that plugin, but there are other optional reference libraries that we can reference and build and take advantage of…

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