topic setup to use visual studio instead of sharpdevelop in Revit API Forum

setup to use visual studio instead of sharpdevelop

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:52:41 GMT

REVIT 2017, Windows 10

Where do I change the Macro user interface setting to use Visual Studio instead of SharpDevelop?

Thx,

Kevin.

Re: setup to use visual studio instead of sharpdevelop

stever66 — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:21:21 GMT

There isn't any way to do this.

You can use the Sharp Develop inside revit to write macros. But if you want to use visual studio, you have to run it separately from revit.

With VS, you compile your code to a .dll file, and load it into revit with a .addin manifest file. There is also a way to have VS automatically start Revit for debugging.

For more details, refer to the "My first plugin" (see one of the messages pined to the top of this forum), and download the Software developers kit (SDK) and look at the Getting Started document.

Steve

Re: setup to use visual studio instead of sharpdevelop

JimJia — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:22:26 GMT

Dear Kevin Barnett,

Yes, Revit macro doesn't support Visual studio to debug, though you may open, modify, compile the macro project with Visual Studio, it's not supported officially for any problem.

If you have to use Visual Studio, you can move the macro project to separated addin project and then use Visual Studio to compile, you can follow this page then:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=16777469