AutoCAD 2021 VS Code Update: for AutoCAD Expert’s Visual LISP

Book Description

With Version 2021, Autodesk announced its intention to remove the Visual LISP Integrated Development Environment (VLIDE) replacing it with the Visual Studio (VS) Code source editor. This is an open-source editor that can be used to develop programs in almost all known languages. This code editor features IntelliSense code completion, syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more. It also includes an interactive debugger, to step through source code, inspect variables, view call stacks, and execute commands in the console. And it has built-in support for Source Control Management by installing Git, a system for tracking changes in source code during software development.Having previously published the AutoCAD Expert’s Visual LISP book which is based on VLIDE and considering that most of its content from this book related to AutoLISP / Visual LISP programming will not change and that only the chapters dedicated to the development environment would have to be modified, I have decided to publish AutoCAD 2021 VS Code Update including all those changes that would be necessary to make to the original book’s text.As the situation above has not changed with the release of AutoCAD 2022, we now include in this Second Edition of the book, the few things added with the most recent version of the AutoCAD AutoLISP Extension. We are also expanding the information on the commands used in the management of Source Code Control.

中文：

书名：AutoCAD2021与代码更新：适用于AutoCADExpert的VisualLisp

在2021版中，Autodesk宣布打算删除Visual Lisp集成开发环境(VLIDE)，代之以Visual Studio(VS)代码源代码编辑器。这是一个开源的编辑器，可以用来开发几乎所有已知语言的程序。此代码编辑器具有智能感知代码完成、语法突出显示、括号匹配、自动缩进、框选择、代码片段等功能。它还包括一个交互式调试器，用于单步执行源代码、检查变量、查看调用堆栈以及在控制台中执行命令。它通过安装Git内置了对源代码管理的支持，Git是一种在软件开发过程中跟踪源代码更改的系统。我之前出版了基于VLIDE的AutoCAD Expert的Visual lisp书籍，并考虑到该书中与AutoLISP/Visual Lisp编程有关的大部分内容不会改变，只有专门用于开发环境的章节将不得不修改，我决定出版AutoCAD2021与代码更新，其中包括对原始书籍进行必要的所有更改。由于以上情况并未随AUTOCAD 2022的发布而改变，因此我们现在将最新版本的AUTOCAD AutoLISP扩展添加的少数几项内容包括在本书的第二版中。我们还在扩展源代码控制管理中使用的命令的信息。