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Dependencies to Include with Setup Project MSI Creater

TheLaymansShaman — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:42:29 GMT

Hi,

I have created Visual Studio Setup Projects for deployment of my Revit addin across the relevant product versions but am stumped as to what dependencies I need to include.

I have added the project output to the setup project and the detected dependencies list is as below.

I have excluded a fair few of these as can be seen on a purely experimental basis with no adverse affects thus far, but still feel that I am including too many with my deployment and it is adding potential bulk to the MSI file size.

Please can someone kindly highlight any of the dependencies I need on the Autodesk side and any others which may seem obvious to you professionals? Or those I need to exclude, whichever is simpler. I am obviously using a few nuget packages which is why I have Mahapps dependencies etc. I assume I need to include all these? I have searched online for the answers but to no avail sadly.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

David

Re: Dependencies to Include with Setup Project MSI Creater

jeremy_tammik — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:01:22 GMT

All the Revit API .NET assembly DLLs are already provided and loaded by Revit, so your add-in does not need to include those in its MSI. All the system assembly DLLs are already provided by the .NET framework, so you can skip those also. There should hardly be anything left, really.

Re: Dependencies to Include with Setup Project MSI Creater

TheLaymansShaman — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:17:28 GMT

Jeremy,

Thanks for the rapid response on this. You've confirmed my suspicions.

I guess part of the problem for me was my setup project populated this dependency list automatically which made me question whether they were needed.

Also the naming of some of them wasn't obviously associated with Revit to my mind.

I think what I may do is look in the Revit install directory and if I see one of these dependencies there will assume I don't need it. If this is a bad approach let me know please.

I'm abit of an amatuer so I don't know what the system assemblies you're referring to are by name either but will assume they must be the System.something dll's.

Thanks again,

David

Re: Dependencies to Include with Setup Project MSI Creater

jeremy_tammik — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:02:56 GMT

I have often streamlined my references by trial and error: remove one, try to recompile, restore it if it fails; repeat.