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Introduction The information on this page was compiled from a series of posts on my blog in December, 2007 about the use of digital signatures in the CAD industry. Note that some information and links that were current as of the original writing may now be out of date. …
The Hot List Carl Bass munching on fast food in the food court, and spotted throughout the week yakking with average folks in the halls.Staggered classes reduced the lunchtime crush experienced at AU 2006.More ObjectARX programming classes this year. I’m pushing for creating a new “Developer” track for AU 2008.The Matt Murphy Head (peace be upon him).Meeting a lot of familiar faces and a few new ones!The Cold List …
The new Visual Studio 2008 has been released, and to celebrate, I’ve updated VC Build Hook. The updated utility allows you to use the new IDE while still building with older versions of the build tools. Why is this necessary? If you build your AutoCAD 2007/2008 ObjectARX application with the Visual C/C++ 9.0 tools, AutoCAD will display a warning message about an incompatible module when you try to load it. You can use VC Build Hook to target all previous AutoCAD versions from a single Visual Studio 2008 solution (if you have the correct version of Visual C/C++ installed alongside Visual Studio 2008). In my testing so far, existing Visual Studio 2005 projects build without problems in Visual Studio 2008 when VC Build Hook is installed and the new ‘BuildToolVersion’ property is set to the correct version.