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Referencing AutoCAD COM interop assemblies from a standalone app: what to set

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For a standalone app that automates AutoCAD over COM, set Embed Interop Types to True on the AutoCAD interop references. This prevents you from having to distribute the interop DLLs with your app, and it works the same on .NET Framework and on modern .NET. A standalone app is not hosted by AutoCAD, so nothing has loaded the interop assemblies for it. If they are not embedded and not copied next to your EXE, the app creates the AutoCAD instance and then fails the first time it touches an AutoCAD type: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop, Version=26.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. The system cannot find the file specified. The guidance differs between in-process add-ins and standalone apps:

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