As running plug-in only from Revit 2014

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone

I developed a plug-in for Revit 2014 using Visual Studio .NET 2012. this plug-in runs in revit 2014 without problems.the installer saves  the plug-in components in the folder "Program Files\My_Plugin\" and copy two files (.dll and .addin) to the path ..... appdata\roaming\autodesk\revit\addin\2014\. If I copy the files from the path "appdata\roaming\autodesk\revit\addin\2014\" to the folder 2013, my plugin runs without problems in Revit 2013. As running my plug-in only from Revit 2014?

Regards

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Marcos Mateo,

Sorry, the end of your message seems garbled to me. Can you please clarify what you mean?

Or rather, maybe I can guess: do you wish your add-in to run only in Revit 2014, and be disabled in all other versions of Revit?

That can be easily achieved.

Simply implement an external application and check the Revit version in the OnStartup method.

If you are not happy with it, you can cancel the loading operation.

Best regards,

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

Hi jeremy

Thanks, that is what I need. There is an example in Visual Basic NET 2012 to do this?

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Sure.

Look at 

https://github.com/jeremytammik/AdnRme

More specifically, at the external application implementation:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/AdnRme/blob/master/AdnRme/App.cs

Look at the OnStartup method:

  public Result OnStartup( UIControlledApplication a )
  {
    // only create a new ribbon panel in Revit MEP:

    ProductType pt = a.ControlledApplication.Product;

    //if( ProductType.MEP == pt ) // 2012

    if( ProductType.MEP == pt 
      || ProductType.Revit == pt ) // 2013
    {
      AddRibbonPanel( a );
      return Result.Succeeded;
    }
    return Result.Cancelled;
  }

Cheers,

Jeremy