Creating a new table style

By Virupaksha Aithal

Below code shows the procedure to create a new table style. Newly created table style is added to database using API “PostTableStyleToDatabase”. The code also makes the new table style as current table style of the database.

[CommandMethod("NewTableStyle")]
static public void NewTableStyle() 
{
 Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
 Database db = doc.Database;
 Editor ed = doc.Editor;
 
 ObjectId tsId = ObjectId.Null;
 
 using (Transaction tr = 
                    db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
 {
     //Name of the Table Style to create
     const string styleName = "TestTableStyle";
 
     DBDictionary tsd = (DBDictionary)tr.GetObject(
                             db.TableStyleDictionaryId,
                             OpenMode.ForRead);
 
 
     if (!tsd.Contains(styleName))
     {
         //now get the active table style 
         TableStyle currentStyle = tr.GetObject(db.Tablestyle, 
                              OpenMode.ForRead) as TableStyle;
         TableStyle newStyle = 
                            currentStyle.Clone() as TableStyle;
 
         // now set the values of new table Style...
 
 
         tsId = newStyle.PostTableStyleToDatabase(db,
                                                styleName);
         tr.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(newStyle, true);
 
         //make the style as current
         db.Tablestyle = tsId;
     }
 
     tr.Commit();
 }
}