A discussion in the comments on this previous entry seemed worthy of turning into a post.
The problem appears to be that when you load a partial CUI file into AutoCAD, by default the various resources (pull-down menus, toolbars) are not displayed.
This snippet of code shows you how to both load a CUI file into AutoCAD and then loop through the toolbars in your menu-group, making them all visible. You could extend it fairly easily to add the pull-down menus contained in the CUI by using mg.Menus.InsertMenuInMenuBar(). I'm choosing to leave that as an exercise for the reader mainly because the choice of where the various menus go can be quite specific to individual applications... toolbars are much simpler - we're just going to turn them all on. :-)
So here's the code... for convenience I wrote it in VB.NET, but it uses COM Interop to access the menu API in AutoCAD.
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop
Public Class ToolbarCmds
<CommandMethod("LoadTBs")> _
Public Sub LoadToolbars()
Const cuiname As String = "mycuiname"
Const cuifile As String = "c:\mycuifile.cui"
Dim mg As AcadMenuGroup
Try
'Attempt to access our menugroup
mg = Application.MenuGroups.Item(cuiname)
Catch ex As System.Exception
'Failure simply means we need to load the CUI first
Application.MenuGroups.Load(cuifile)
mg = Application.MenuGroups.Item(cuiname)
End Try
'Cycle through the toobars, setting them to visible
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To mg.Toolbars.Count - 1
mg.Toolbars.Item(i).Visible = True
Next
End Sub
End Class
