Newbie in VB VS2010 and ACAD2011x64

[ramonvaldezz925989]

I'm a newbie in programming VB, but i made before some vbscripts (mainly coping&pasting&editing some examples i found on web). Now i want make a little stand-alone app with VB (VisualStudio2010) that can convert DXF to DWG (plus extras, like zoomextens, set insert units to meter, setbylayer, purgeall). So i started with a form and a simple button that can launch Autocad 2011 x64.

This is the (very) first point: i can't start Acad.

My configuration:

• Windows 7 64 bit
• Autodesk Civil 3D x64
• Microsoft VisualStudio 2010
• ObjectARX 2011 (downloaded and extracted on c:\)

This is what i made:

• New project - Framework 4.0 (i tried the 3.5 without success).

I added the following references:

• In c:/ObjectARX 2011/ObjectARX 2011/inc-x647: Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common.dll and Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.dll

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim oAcadApp As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication
        oAcadApp = CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application")
        oAcadApp.Visible = True
    End Sub
End Class

I receive these errors (sorry, my VS2010 is in italian):

"Impossible to create the ActiveX component"

"Eccezione first-chance di tipo 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' in mscorlib.dll
Eccezione first-chance di tipo 'System.Exception' in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll"

In Window's Task manager i can see the acad.exe process running, but not the software window.

Please help me start my journey!

[jason907238]

this might help you out....

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=122329

[avinash patil]

Dear Friend,

I have same problem during doing standalone application in AutoCAD 2015 with VS 2012. please help me on this.

Thanks,

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