topic Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022 in Revit API Forum

Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

ricaun — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:18:17 GMT

The Macro Manager changed in Revit 2025, now you need to have .NET SDK 8.0 and Visual Studio Code installed on your machine to create and build the macro in C#.

I found a way to use Visual Studio 2022 (which should also work with Rider) instead of using Visual Studio Code.

You need to change the configuration in the Macro Manager and add a custom code.cmd (https://gist.github.com/ricaun/482edc40d2b680ab733e12492264fd0d).

The code.cmd file finds the .csproj in the folder and tries to open it.

This should work without Visual Studio Code installed on the machine. 😁

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

ankofl — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:22:05 GMT

Oh! Perfectly!

Thank you very much!

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

rawava1350 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:23:51 GMT

Great, wish this was the default, with no restrictions on IDE usage. Not every developer likes VS Code

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

jeremy_tammik — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:31:24 GMT

Congratulations on discovering this and thank you for sharing! I added it to today's blog post:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2024/04/revit-2025-and-revitlookup-2025.html#6

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

josborneW959Y — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:23:41 GMT

Cool! Is there any way to get the extension to enable debugging?

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

ricaun — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:02:22 GMT

@josborneW959Y wrote:
Cool! Is there any way to get the extension to enable debugging?

Sure: https://github.com/ricaun-io/RevitAddin.VisualStudioDebug

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

Eduardo.SaezDRTV4 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:40:55 GMT

So from Revit 2025 coding has to be in C#, there is no way to code in VB or Python ?

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

jeremy_tammik — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:20:22 GMT

> So from Revit 2025 coding has to be in C#

No. The Revit API is based on .NET.

> there is no way to code in VB or Python ?

You can use any language that can connect appropriately to the Revit .NET API framework.

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

Eduardo.SaezDRTV4 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:01:28 GMT

Thought so, just wanted to confirm.
So guess I need start learning C# then and quickly

Thanks Jeremy

Re: Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

jeremy_tammik — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:44:49 GMT

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tips-for-python-developers