If I remember correctly, in MaxDotNet.config there is a property that sets the remoting port. The error is thrown when you try to use remoting on mult…

Look in the Autodesk.Internal.Windows namespace in AdWindows.dll. There you find some theme-classes that holds different variations of brushes. The n…

You can find many of the controls in AdWindows.dll. I asked about this some time ago and the answer I got was that the controls had no official suppor…

I got another one using the assembly info from an arbitrary object from autodesk.max.dll: (((((dotnetclass “Autodesk.Max.ViewType”).Back).GetType())….

Yeah, you’re right, It does not exist in 2013. This works in maxscript so it should work in c#: g = (dotnetclass “Autodesk.Max.GlobalInterface”).Ins…

You need to go through the running instance of max: Autodesk.Max.GlobalInterface.Instance.UtilityInterface.CurrentVersion

Sure, it has been a long time since I touched it though. All you can do for now is snoop around in max files, which is kind of interesting. The plan w…

Yeah, I followed the blog posted above to parse the maxfile. The fileAssetMetaData, summaryInformation and DocumentSummaryInformation streams are diff…

It is possible doing it by reading the binary streams of the max file, as andylt1 says, but it is a bit of work. A very good explanation of how to sta…

I snooped around in the source code for pywin32 and found the method that throws the exception. Link to source. The method is PyObject_FromPROPVARIANT…

Can you post a working sample of what you got so far?

The FileAssetMetaData stream contains only path and type for each asset. To see which plugins are loaded you either have to parse the DllDirectory str…

LoneRobot: I began looking at this many years ago here via my blog research, using the dsofile.dll from Microsoft. It is something that allowed deve…

Pete, I took your idea and tried to implement a simple example. A user can add messages to a max file by writing to a specified IStream located in the…

LoneRobot: I have a small request that could really make my day! now that you’ve got access to the structured storage, would it be possible to write…