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mmason

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VS2012 or VS2010
« on: January 15, 2013, 10:07:31 AM »
I'm about to delve into the world of .NET and some of the programming will be for AutoCAD 2013 on Win7(64bit).  Does anyone have any insight on the use of VS2012 for programming AutoCAD 2013?  Must I use VS2010 for that or can I just target the correct framework adn go on down the road?

Any help would be appreciated!


WILL HATCH

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Re: VS2012 or VS2010
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2013, 10:26:51 AM »
I've run both and haven't had any issues with either.  I like the interface for VS11 a bit better than VS2010

huiz

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Re: VS2012 or VS2010
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2013, 10:27:48 AM »
You can use both. I use 2010  and with that I develop things for AutoCAD, Civil3D and Map3D 2011, 2012, 2013, and also for BricsCAD v12 and v13.

I don't need VS2012 for that.
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n.yuan

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Re: VS2012 or VS2010
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2013, 12:01:42 PM »
I like VS2010 than VS2012 for Acad programming. Then main reason is VS2012's float window behaves differently from VS2010. With VS 2010, you can drag a code window floating on the other monitor. Well, you can do it with VS2012 too). However, with VS2010, the foating window has its own focus. That is, if the floating code window is minimized, or coverd by other window (AutoCAD, for example), when you activate VS2010's main window and do something, midfying code, stepping code through in debugging...), the floating code window remains minmized or hidden behind other windows (AutoCAD), so you can use the 2 monitors to see different apps (VS and AutoCAD). While with VS2012, activeing VS main window also brings the floating code window on other screen on top, so both screen show VS windows, which is often not I want. That somewhat defeats the benefit of floating code window.

GUIDO ROOMS

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Re: VS2012 or VS2010
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 02:24:58 AM »
Ok guys. Thanks for the replies.
I've been able to test things out.
The only problem I encountered had to do with the .com api:
to use that, I had to reference other (type)libraries (higher version 18.1)
All else works fine.