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HasanCAD

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What is best editor for VB.NEt beginner?
« on: December 23, 2013, 10:35:05 AM »
I want to start learning VB.NET, So
- What is start point, ( How to start)?
- What is is best editor?

Thanks

Keith Brown

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Re: What is best editor for VB.NEt beginner?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2013, 12:28:17 PM »
I personally use Visual Studio Express 2012 Edition but there are others out there.  SharpDevelop comes to mind.
 
My First Plugin is a great place to start for AutoCAD programming in VB.NET.
 
If you need a basic understanding of VB.Net first then check out the Getting Started Link at the top of the .Net Forum.
 
Good Luck!
 
P.S.  If you haven't started to learn .Net at all then I would recommend C# vs VB.NET.  I only say this because there is more examples on the web for C# then VB.NET.  While it is easy to convert between languages, C# appears to be the predominate language and more closely resembles other languages that you might program with in the future.  Java comes to mind for example.
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HasanCAD

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Re: What is best editor for VB.NEt beginner?
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2013, 09:10:03 AM »
Thanx Keith for your valuable answer

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Re: What is best editor for VB.NEt beginner?
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2013, 10:10:20 AM »
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If you haven't started to learn .Net at all then I would recommend C# vs VB.NET
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By my side, while learning AutoCAD .NET, I don't think "My first Plugin" is the best tutorial to start with. It deals with the Overrule API which is far to be the simplest one. If you want to try this tutorial with C#, I tried a code conversion to C# here.
I'd rather start with: "AutoCAD 201X .Net Training" on this page.

Anyway, before comming into the AutoCAD .NET API, you'll have to learn the .NET basics...
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