Why no VBA support in 2010?

[AQucsaiJr]

I am new to the programing world and have been playing around designing LISP programs but I was recently given a VBA program and it looked very good. I just wanted to get some opinions because I found out AutoCAD 2010 no longer supports VBA by default, so why would they not support it? I liked the layout of the VBA program in the VBA editor that AutoCAD has, but is it worth taking the time to learn to use VBA or is there a better, more efficiant programing language for AutoCAD?

[ReMark]

This speaks for itself re: VBA Support in ACAD 2010.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=12900036&linkID=9240617

[AQucsaiJr]

So if I am reading this correctly, they are encouraging programmers to use VB .NET?

[AQucsaiJr]

This may be a dumb question but I was given a file with [.dvb] file type. What program is used to write a file type of this kind? I have Visual Basic Express and it does not seem to be able to open this type of file. Visual Basic Express saves file in [.vb], is this file type supported by AutoCAD?

[ReMark]

DVB is a file extension associated with Visual Basic.

[ReMark]

They said it plain as day:

"Autodesk is evaluating how long VBA will be supported in Autodesk products in the future. Though supported in the AutoCAD 2010-based products, it may or may not be supported in future releases. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that VB developers develop all new code using VB .NET."

[AQucsaiJr]

They said it plain as day:

"Autodesk is evaluating how long VBA will be supported in Autodesk products in the future. Though supported in the AutoCAD 2010-based products, it may or may not be supported in future releases. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that VB developers develop all new code using VB .NET."


Got that... So if I am planning on learning a programing language to use with AutoCAD, should I get a copy of Visual Basic, or just stick with the AutoLISP?

[ReMark]

You should also read Using Visual Basic Express to create an AutoCAD .NET addin. You can start with this link here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22visual+basic+express%22%2B%22save%22&start=10&sa=N

[AQucsaiJr]

Thanks ReMark... Ill have a look threw this document.