Download the MDLprojectwizard2005?

Hi Karthik,

the wizard is a part of MicroStation V8i SDK installation. If I remember correctly, you use MicroStation V8 2004 Edition, so this wizard cannot be used anyway, because Visual C++ 6 is required for V8.5, not Visual Studio 2005.

I have to say the wizard importance is often overrated in my opinion. It will not help you to understand the development better, it just automates some boring / annoying tasks, which is dangerous a bit, because it makes some topics to be black boxes.

A question of MDL learning materials has been discussed many times in this forum (e.g. this discussion). There are not many available of them available:

• There are some videos on Bentley LEARN server available under MicroStation Programming Learning Path.
• There is tutorial written by Yongan Fu, but I am not sure if it's available publicly or only for BDN members.
• There are good articles on Jon Summers web.
• And don't forget on documentation delivered with MicroStation SDK itself, it contains plenty of infomration about how MDL code works.

The mentioned sources of information expect you know C and C++. This knowledge is mandatory and required prior you start with MDL.

If there is anything not clear, ask specifically for this issue. In my opinion it's good to take some SDK example (e.g. Basic) and try to understand why it works. The problem is that in older SDK version all examples use MDL compilers and not Visual Studio compiler. It's fine if you need understand API, dialogs, resources and code structure, but e.g. bmake file is different.

With regards,

 Jan

Hi Karthik,

the wizard is a part of MicroStation V8i SDK installation. If I remember correctly, you use MicroStation V8 2004 Edition, so this wizard cannot be used anyway, because Visual C++ 6 is required for V8.5, not Visual Studio 2005.

I have to say the wizard importance is often overrated in my opinion. It will not help you to understand the development better, it just automates some boring / annoying tasks, which is dangerous a bit, because it makes some topics to be black boxes.

A question of MDL learning materials has been discussed many times in this forum (e.g. this discussion). There are not many available of them available:

• There are some videos on Bentley LEARN server available under MicroStation Programming Learning Path.
• There is tutorial written by Yongan Fu, but I am not sure if it's available publicly or only for BDN members.
• There are good articles on Jon Summers web.
• And don't forget on documentation delivered with MicroStation SDK itself, it contains plenty of infomration about how MDL code works.

The mentioned sources of information expect you know C and C++. This knowledge is mandatory and required prior you start with MDL.

If there is anything not clear, ask specifically for this issue. In my opinion it's good to take some SDK example (e.g. Basic) and try to understand why it works. The problem is that in older SDK version all examples use MDL compilers and not Visual Studio compiler. It's fine if you need understand API, dialogs, resources and code structure, but e.g. bmake file is different.

With regards,

 Jan