If you’re an ObjectARX programmer, you may still be using Visual Studio 2008 because you’ve been told that you must. It’s true that you need Visual Studio 2008 installed to compile native ObjectARX code, but with Daffodil you can do all your work in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.
Until now, the one thing that didn’t work in VS 2010 was the ObjectARX Wizard. I’m happy to report that the latest wizard seems to works fine in both VS 2008 and VS 2010. Thanks to Alexander Rivilis for revealing the secret URL:
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/objectarx_2012_wizards.zip
The people I work for have inflicted AutoCAD 2012 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit upon me. If I download ObjectARX for AutoCAD 2012 and buy a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition, will I be able to build ARX for my platform, or will I have to get Visual Studio 2010, or will I need both?
I either missed this comment or forgot to reply. For posterity, the answer is that you need both.