AutoCAD 2025 has recently been released including the industry-specific toolset for GIS and mapping. Then it’s the time of year again to tune the applications to it.
This time it was a bit more complex than previous years. Previously, AutoCAD used the .NET Framework and it was a matter of installing a new Visual Studio environment, configuring a new version of the .NET Framework and adjusting references to the relevant AutoCAD DLLs.
As of AutoCAD 2025, Autodesk has switched from the .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core 8.0. And that has an impact in both the Visual Studio environment and the C# code.
| Set up a VMware machine and update Windows |  |
| Download, install & register AutoCAD Map 2025 | |
| Download, install & register Visual Studio 2022 | |
| Adjust Visual Studio project settings with references to 2025 | |
| Convert Visual Studio from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core 8.0 | |
| vdPClassify2025 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available | |
| vdPCADdesign2025 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available | |
| vdPGeo2025 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available | |