Topic: Newbie Question: 'Application' is an ambiguous reference ..

[Atook]

Working through he .NET tutorials myself, I've come up with a couple questions. I'm using VS2010 and r2008:

The first regards ambiguous references, and the 'using' statements. In the attached image you can see an error showing up regarding the Application object. You can also see my using statements up at the top. In order to resolve the error, I just need to specify which Application object I'm using: i.e. Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application instead of Application. No problem, but it sure makes the code silly long. Am I missing something, or do I need to be so explicit?

Second Question: in the VS2010 IDE, is there a way to highlight brackets/parens so I can easily see the matching ones? Notepad++ does this and I love it.

[dgorsman]

You can assign namespace aliases e.g. Using acad_app = AutoDesk.AutoCAD.blahblah

[kaefer]

The first regards ambiguous references, and the 'using' statements.

Using Directive.

That may be useful for other parts of the Autodesk namespace too; AutoCAD's GraphicsInterface or the Aec libraries are a real treasure for such clashes.

[gile]

Hi,

You can use an alias for Autodesk.AutoCAD.Application.
Add this line after other 'using' expressions:

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using AcAp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.Application;Then, the alias AcAp (or any other non used name as AcadApp) can be used in the code instead of Autodesk.AutoCAD.Application:

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Editor ed = AcAp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;

[Atook]

Thanks guys, exactly what I was looking for.

[Jeff H]

You could also remove
using System.Windows.Forms
Not sure why you would need it unless it was the code behind a form.

[Atook]

You could also remove
using System.Windows.Forms
Not sure why you would need it unless it was the code behind a form.

Good point Jeff. This tutorial requires it though, as I'm adding a treeview form to a pallet.

[Jeff H]

Second Question: in the VS2010 IDE, is there a way to highlight brackets/parens so I can easily see the matching ones? Notepad++ does this and I love it.

You can use Devexpress http://devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/ or another addin and I think you can change this options but if you click right in front or behind a curly brace the matching one will highlight.