Thoughts regarding a book for writing SolidWorks API using .Net

Bob,

As I mentioned before, "SW API for Dummies" would be a good format. I still have VB 6 and I suspect the biggest audience would be VB literate to some extent and COM literate very little.

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PS What is the ISDN for the previous book?

The previous two books (VB and VC++) were available privately from my website and later from Centare Group Ltd.

I am looking to pursue the formal process of checking into publishers for the new one if enough people are interested :)

Bob

Another good book format to look at: the "Teach yourself Visually" series. I have the PHP and HTML books. Very useful.

I'm about to make the leap to VB.NET. I have an app that is having problems with resources in its VB6 form. I was told that VB.Net will take care of the issues.

I guess one item to mention is that I am planning on making this a book that details the development process for SolidWorks add-in and standalone applications.

The other aspect is to compare how some of this was performed in Visual Basic 6.0 to provide a crossover for app developers going from VB6 to VB or C# .Net.

Thanks for the input :)

Bob Hanson

Did you track the kind of numbers you last book did?

I should be a good indicator.

I would be interested in it. Though I have already done a few .NET addins myself. It is always nice to know what you are doing the hard way.

Regards, Corey

Hey Bob,

Not to be discouraging, but I am actively looking for alternatives to .NET for programming SolidWorks add-ins. I'm semi VB literate at this point and if I'm going to learn a new programming idiom, I'm fairly certain I'm not at all interested in VB.NET and only coincidently interested in C# because of it's passing similarity to Java.

Unfortunately though, at this point there don't seem to be a lot of alternatives, particularly for inexpensive programming app's. Inertia is a difficult thing to resist.

Chris