Starting with AutoCAD 2010 VBA is NOT shipped with the installation package anymore. For right now (and maybe a few years to come?) you are still able to download and install it separately into AutoCAD (see here). But on the long run that means that VBA will cease to exist in AutoCAD. For BricsCAD it is the same although they sill have it installed in their pro-version by default. They say that it will still be around for some years, but since they always try to imitate AutoCAD it is obvious where it all will lead to.
Therefore to anybody who contemplates learning VBA I would suggest not to do it. Instead I would recommend to either learn AutoLISP instead, which also has pretty good ActiveX/COM support, or else to jump onto the VB(.NET)- or the C#-train if you dare and think you are capable of it. It definitely is harder to learn but if you have the time and determination then it is not impossible - even "on your own". (For that I will offer some links in the AutoCAD .NET section.)
Nevertheless I posted some VBA tutorial links on the corresponding page for those who need it at all cost.
And for those who want to migrate their existing VBA code to VB.NET this post (JTB World) and this post (Through the Interface) might be of interest.
Therefore to anybody who contemplates learning VBA I would suggest not to do it. Instead I would recommend to either learn AutoLISP instead, which also has pretty good ActiveX/COM support, or else to jump onto the VB(.NET)- or the C#-train if you dare and think you are capable of it. It definitely is harder to learn but if you have the time and determination then it is not impossible - even "on your own". (For that I will offer some links in the AutoCAD .NET section.)
Nevertheless I posted some VBA tutorial links on the corresponding page for those who need it at all cost.
And for those who want to migrate their existing VBA code to VB.NET this post (JTB World) and this post (Through the Interface) might be of interest.
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