MicroStation Development Library and the MicroStationAPI
The MicroStation Development Library (MDL) has been Bentley Systems' premier development kit for MicroStation since version 4 in 1993. With MicroStation XM, Bentley introduced the C++ MicroStationAPI.
There is no published printed material about MDL or the MicroStationAPI.
MicroStation® Visual Basic for Applications™ (MVBA)
MVBA is Bentley Systems' adaptation of the Microsoft VBA toolkit. It provides a subset of Visual Basic™ (VB) functionality and is similar to the VBA implementations in Microsoft Word™, Excel™ and applications from third-parties. A MicroStation installation includes a VBA Help file.
Bentley have published a book about MicroStation VBA …
| Book | Title | Authors | Publisher |
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Learning MicroStation VBA | Jerry Winters | Bentley Institute Press |
Computational Geometry
There are one or two other books that may be interesting to MicroStation developers, whether writing MDL, VBA, or C++ code. The Head First series published by O'Reilly, provide an introduction; Essential Mathematics for Computer Graphics is more formal, yet easy to digest, and Architectural Geometry is more heavyweight (literally) …
| Book | Title | Authors | Publisher |
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Essential Mathematics for Computer Graphics | John Vince | Springer Verlag |
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Head First 2D Geometry | Lindsey Fallow, Dawn Griffiths | O'Reilly Media |
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Architectural Geometry | Helmut Pottmann, Andreas Asperl, Michael Hofer, Axel Kilian | Bentley Institute Press |
