Bruce, thank you for that confirmation. If you could send me one more sample design file that contains shapes, complex shapes and grouped holes connecting to at least 3 different MSLINK values then I will complete verification testing of my revised code…

Jan is correct. No VBA wrappers are provided for the Bentley Map C API functions. The most commonly used Bentley Map functionality, including the XFM data modeling engine is provided in the XFT (XFM Feature Toolkit) COM object. Use of other Bentley Map…

Would recommend use of the GDIImportProcessor class which has an InstancesProcessed property that would provide the count you are looking for.

The Bentley Map network API is currently only available for use in MDL applications written in either C or C++ languages. For a future release of Bentley Map, we are working on a new XFM based networking API that will support .NET and VBA development…

As Jerry correctly comments, there is currently no out-of-the-box way to accomplish using standard Bentley Map functionality. This workflow can however be accomplished with some customization that makes use of the Bentley Map API. The basic approach is…

...and shortcuts to both help files can be found in the " Bentley Map V8 i \Programmers Reference Guides " program group as follows: Bentley Map V8 i MDL Programmers Reference Guide Bentley Map V8 i XFM Programmers Reference Guide Regards…

Praveen, Yes, you can use Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 framework to develop Bentley Map V8 i applications and addins. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Greetings Erik, For the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 3) 08.11.09 release, many of the API enhancements will be for use by .NET developers in the interoperability area. A minimum number of XFT changes will be included. No changes are planned for the…

Krister, Jon is correct, if not using C/C++ native code then use of... compOpts + i$(GEOINCS) ....in your .mke file is correct. It seems the definition of the GEOINCS environment variable may not be pointing to the location of the Bentley Map…

Ottavio, Those MicroStation GeoGraphic functions are not available in the Bentley Map product which uses the XFM feature engine. You will need to make use of the XFM API for application development on the Bentley Map platform. I would also recommend…

Charlie, The previously referenced documentation can be found using the following shortcuts... Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1) MDL Programmers Reference Guide Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1) VBA Programmers Reference…

Jens, I refactored the sample VBA application a bit to account for polygon collections, including instances consisting of disjointed areas. I did nothing to account for holes at this time. For details, please refer to comments in the findCentroid and…

Krister, The bmake_opt variable is used to define options for bmake.exe such as -I option which defines the Include (.mki) file path, not the header file includes. What you need to do is update your applications .mke file by extending the paths in…

Yes, in addition to MDL (e.g. native C/C++) libraries, Bentley Map provides the XFM Feature Toolkit (XFT) COM object for development using VBA or .NET (e.g. C# or Visual Basic.NET) languages. Depending on your applications functional requirements, you…

...unfortunately the capability to programmatically create and define the contents of a "map model" does not exist in the public Bentley Map API at this time. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]