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The following are sources of information that I have found useful and/or interesting.

Please email me if any of the links are dead.

AutoCAD LT Automation

ACE-LT by Trial Software Laboratories
Enables you to use AutoCAD's LISP and DCL languages with AutoCAD LT.

LT_Basic 95/97 by Softwarebüro Dorsch
A 32bit ActiveX Control (OCX) to programm AutoCAD LT 95/97. Can be used with all OCX aware IDEs, including VB 4/5, Delphi 2 (3 not tested yet), Visual C++ and others.

LTad2on by Sigma TechSoft
Enables you to use Visual C/C++ to create ObjectARX applications for AutoCAD LT. LTad2on also enables you to use Visual Basic, C++, Delphi, Java etc. to create applications for AutoCAD LT.

DwgCtrl by Interscape Corporation
The DWG Thumbnail Preview Control is designed to display the preview image in AutoCAD R13 and R14 drawings in any ActiveX container application. Examples of such applications include Visual Basic and Internet Explorer.

DIESEL (Direct Interpretively Evaluated String Expression Language)

DIESEL Help Page by Phil Lacy
Explains some of the finer points to consider when writing macros for AutoCAD with DIESEL

Newsgroups

The following newsgroups are hosted by Autodesks news server and are an excellent source of information from Autodesk support and AutoCAD Users
autodesk.autocad.customization
autodesk.autocad.customization.vba
autodesk.autocad.r13general
autodesk.autocad.r14general
autodesk.autocadlt.97general

The following Usenet newsgroups are also good source of information from people who know what they are talking about - the Users
alt.cad.autocad
comp.cad.autocad
alt.cad.intellicad

Miscellaneous

The Autodesk File by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. Very interesting, if nothing else, documented history of Autodesk and AutoCAD

Flat Mtn by Stephanie Yoder
A whole lot of information on a whole lot of things, especially AutoCAD LT

AutoCAD Exposed published by Owen Wengerd
A list of undocumented or only partially documented AutoCAD features, commands and system variables. Some of it also applies to AutoCAD LT

The Common Controls Replacement Project
Combines the extensive talents of Windows developers whose aim is to provide faster, more fully-featured and free replacements to the Microsoft-provided Common Controls and Common Dialogs. The project team has eleven members who pool their knowledge to create the CCRP controls.