MicroStation developer sources and links

Last modified by Jan Šlegr on 2019/03/18 06:43

For MicroStation applications developers, especially for beginners, it's often complicated to find enough information how to start development, about specific topics etc. Lack of materials is long term issue, but it does not mean that the materials do not exist. Unfortunately, they are spread over different web pages.

There is a selection of links I found useful:

Forums
Wiki
Blogs
Videos

A main page (crossroad) is Developers and Programming community page. Many links to other places (forums, SDK announcements, blogs…) are shared there.

MicroStation CONNECT Edition SDK also provides support to access different web pages and other sources of information (documentation etc.). Available commands (macros) are described on this page.

Forums

Forums are roughly divided by products, but an overall structure of communities is a bit confusing:

Link	Content
Developers and Programming	Accordingly to communities structure it seems to be "root" community and forum, but in fact it should be used as a forum for "everything else", when product forum does not exist.
MicroStation Programming	MicroStation, PowerDraft
Geospatial Programming	Bentley Map (OpenCities), Geo Web Publiher
Civil Programming	InRoads, MX, GEOPAK, OpenRoads Designer
ProjectWise Programming	ProjectWise products and modules
BDN	Should be used to discuss BDN-specific issues (administrative etc.), not software development questions. But people place such questions here also, in my opinion the response is not as good as when the same question is placed to MicroStation Programming forum.

There is no forum specialized on AECOsim Building Design programming.

Wiki

There are not many useful wikis, but some exists:

Link	Content
BDN community wiki	Old BDN news are archived here.
Developers and programming Wiki	FAQ about some general topics Code snippets for MicroStation CE Overview of published SDKs (not sure about how often the list is updated)
ProjectWise Programming Wiki	Only a few articles here

Blogs

Link	Content
MicroStation Programming Blog	Not updated extremely often, but some really interesting blogs here related to CE development.
BDN community blog	Some blogs here also, but my feeling is that the activity has moved to MicroStation Programming Blog.

Videos

Not too many (up to date) videos about MicroStation development available:

Link	Content
Bentley LEARN Server	MicroStation Programming Learning Path
BDN@YouTube	Just a few videos

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