Check the vendor ID's of all loaded apps

damiankrasuckibusiness — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:52:46 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to implement a feature that will check if another one of my addins is loaded into the user's current Revit session. If so, I'd like to group them under a single ribbon tab.

I can't use a Schema since this needs to happen in the OnStartup method, which only provides access to the UIControlledApplication.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Re: Check the vendor ID's of all loaded apps

jeremy_tammik — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:49:01 GMT

Implementing this inside OnStartup might defeat its purpose. That method is called during the loading process of your add-in. So, there is no way to know whether your other add-ins have already been loaded or not, and therefore, whatever list you generate inside OnStartup might and very probably will be incomplete. Maybe ApplicationInitialized is a more suitable context for this kind of thing. However, you must also be aware that additional add-ins can be loaded midsession. So, your list might never be complete. That said, to answer your question, I see two previous discussions here in the forum on determining which applications have been loaded, both with the same answer:

> You can get the list of loaded applications using UIApplication.LoadedApplications property. It returns a list of IExternalApplication entities, then you can get parent assemblies location of each application,

Re: Check the vendor ID's of all loaded apps

damiankrasuckibusiness — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:54:05 GMT

Thank you, Jeremy!

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