Hey there,

I just joined the modern ages and upgraded both my Solidworks from 2007 and Windows from XP to 7 64 bit.

Needless to say, my Custom Property manager XMLPropWorks doesn't work any longer.  I loaded up VP Pro and the executable version of XMLPropWorks still runs, but I cannot get the dll to load in SolidWorks.  I've recompiled it, but I think there is just too much cross platform stuff going on for this to ever be viable.

So if I've going to go through a bunch of debugging, I might as well join the modern age, right?  Looking around I dedcided to load up Visual Basic Express 2010 just for grins and chuckles.  Attempting to open the XMLPropWorks project files results in an error indicating "Data at the root level is invalid".

Looking at a VBE 2010 project file indicates a XML type of format has been adopted which the old VB project files bore no resemblance to.

So,  a whole plethora of question emerges

1) Can I build a 64 bit SolidWorks dll add-in in Visual Basic Express 2010?

2) If so is there a way to read these old files in VBE 2010?

3) If so, does it even make sense to do so?

4) Is VB.net the best migration path?  This app has a lot of code that I suspect will be broken in numerous ways upon successful loading.

5) Can someone point me to a good tutorial on creating Solidworks add-in in dotnet?

Thanks for now, I appreciate all the help.

chris