Deploying/Updating Addin
I implemented such a thing in my company project.
The key is to make your add-in dlls not being occupied by Revit, which enables you to replace them on the fly.
The entry.dll is the first file that Revit loads through .addin file, which means it is doomed to be occupied by Revit. To make it stable(dependency free, business code free) , the concept of IoC can be involved. I integrate a light-weight plugin system in the entry.dll, which enables the dll to discover my business plugins and load them into Revit.
@Kennan.ChenI created a similar solution for my company.
I have the same entry.dll file in my case I called Loader.dll, and instead of copying it to a temporary folder, I have a folder with the version of the plugin. The Loader is designed to only initialize the last version and I snick a Revit version sector as well.
Everything is inside the .bundle folder and the responsibility to update the plugin is the plugin itself. When Revit starts check for a new version and downloads it.
Now I found a way to remove the Loader entirely, the idea is to use the GitHub release to download automatic the new version, and then the plugin gonna auto-update itself. Gonna be cool to implement in open-source projects.
Here is a more detailed explanation: https://ricaun.com/update-revitaddin/
The best reference is this AU class.
And you can find the Guidelines in the Developer Network Revit.
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| 3. Preparing Apps for the Store: Guidelines | 8:30 | Video, pdf |
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Why you wanna submit an internal plugin to the Autodesk store to use the bundle structure, what?
Is really convenient to have a plugin for multiple versions of Revit in one folder.
Do you want to install that plugin just copy the bundle folder to %ProgramData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\ and done! Uninstall just remove the folder.
Here I have an old project for the RevitLookup that has a bundle structure.
Hi @ricaun, I've been watching you youtube series regarding the real-time update revit plugin. I'm having a hard time connecting with github API using a private repo.
my research led me to use the following url to access my private repo
https://api.github.com/repos?access_token=["MyToken"]
However, I can not reach the private repo through that url:
Have you gone through anything similar by chance? I've make everything works (download files from github) for a public repo but It doesnt make sense to store the organization files in a public one.
All the best,
Miguel G.
Yes: https://youtu.be/KVVhb15DMrc
Looks like you are using the old GitHub API.
Need to use the Header with the Authorization or something like this.
curl \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/releases/latest
But I don't sure if is a good idea to add YOUR-TOKEN in the code or something.
In my case, I uploaded the release/bundle to my website using the GitHub action with Nuke.
The AppLoader attribute is just a way I found to force the plugin AppLoader to startup/shutdown the IExternalApplication.
And by default, Revit Api does not have any method to remove a RibbonPanel, that's why I have a library to add this method and others to make it easy to create buttons and other RibbonItems.
This video explains:
I'm not loading the plugin using RevitAddin.addin file, basically, the AppLoader loads the RevitAddin.dll and uses some Reflection to find the IExtarnalApplication with the AppLoader attribute and execute the Startup/Shutdown the same way Revit does.
Basically, to remove a RibbonPanel you need to use some AdWindows methods to remove the Ribbon and some internal Revit API to remove it from the internal dictionary.
At the moment the project is private: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ricaun.Revit.UI and you can use if you what, still need to clean the project and add a better unit test and I gonna make it public.
