I looked in to the above solution for my Solution where I started adding in the ForgeTypeId, but needed some of the parameters to be able to be added in 2021 using ParameterType and wanted to start transitioning my Solution over to ForgeTypeId in Revit 2022 and in to the future.
I implemented the solution above, but was having a tremendous amount of issues of trying to get the 2021 build to actually build. And not knowing a tremendous amount of MSBUILD, this gave me an opportunity to learn a little more.
With the first line in the original post showing:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop" InitialTargets="Test">
I thought the InitialTargets was important, neh I say critical, to be able to call the message for this whole process. It wasn't. You can easily remove it. My SDK also looks different for the .NET SDK. This also is not important for the build.
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworks>net472;net48</TargetFrameworks>
<OutputPath>bin\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
<UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
...
</PropertyGroup>
I've removed other Frameworks from the original post, because I'm only targeting Revit 2020, 2021, and 2022. I also removed the initializing <RevitVersion> as it also was not necessary.
Then I want to set the RevitVersion property based upon the .NET Framework version as shown below. This was not noted in the original post.
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net46' ">
<RevitVersion>2018</RevitVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net47' ">
<RevitVersion>2019</RevitVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net472' ">
<RevitVersion>2020</RevitVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net48' ">
<RevitVersion>2022</RevitVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
Notice that there is no Revit 2021 listed in this version. This is because the multi-framework versions are going to build normally, but we are going to call MSBUILD separately for the Revit 2021 version after all the builds for the versions have actually been built.
In the next post for the Configurations, mine looks incredibly similar to the above in the original post. But, make sure to keep the net48 versions setup how they look above.
Then we get to the RevitAPI dlls. I personally use the Nuget package for Revit dlls. If you have everything locally, then use the above. But, if you don't there is the Nuget package available (not managed by me). So, we need to swap the PackageReference based upon the .NET Framework version and consequently the Revit Version. Here is what that code looks like below:
<Choose>
<When Condition=" '$(RevitVersion)' == '2018'">
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Autodesk.Revit.SDK" Version="2018.*" PrivateAssets="All">
<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
</When>
<When Condition=" '$(RevitVersion)' == '2019'">
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Autodesk.Revit.SDK" Version="2019.*" PrivateAssets="All">
<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
</When>
<When Condition=" '$(RevitVersion)' == '2020'">
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Autodesk.Revit.SDK" Version="2020.*" PrivateAssets="All">
<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
</When>
<When Condition=" '$(RevitVersion)' == '2021'">
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Autodesk.Revit.SDK" Version="2021.*" PrivateAssets="All">
<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
</When>
<Otherwise>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Autodesk.Revit.SDK" Version="2022.*" PrivateAssets="All">
<ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
</Otherwise>
</Choose>
Then finally we get to the actual building of the Revit 2021 version.
You just copy and paste this in to your CSPROJ and away it goes, right? The "BuildAdditionalRevitYear" is not necessary similar to how the "Test" target noted in the original post was not necessary. This could have easily been omitted by the OP and for me.
The real item to note is the Build2021 target. The OP was sending it to "DispatchInnerBuilds", but I could never get this to fire correctly. This may have been a Visual Studio reference, but I am using Rider as my IDE and could not get it to work. I instead looked for something else to get this target to run correctly. Instead I'm using AfterTargets=Build.
This is waiting until the Build event happens and then running the command. Which is great and it runs! The downside as you might imagine is that every build then calls this command. So the 2018 build is called and then it also builds 2021, the 2019 build is called and then it also builds 2021, the 2020 build is called, and so on. So every build also then builds the 2021 build. But this takes a lot of time waiting for a build to run over and over again when it is not necessary. I would really like it to only build the 2021 build if I build the 2022 build because this is the only time that I'm using net48. (You know, with the hopes that future Revit version target .NET instead of Framework). We will see if we have to revisit this in 2023. I have my condition statement written only to run this command when my Revit Version of 2022 is called. Now the build is only called once and everything builds correctly.
<Target Name="BuildAdditionalRevitYear">
<Message Importance="high" Text="-- Building $(MSBuildProjectFile), TF = $(TargetFramework), Config = $(Configuration), Revit Version = $(RevitVersion) --" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Build2021" AfterTargets="Build" Condition="$(RevitVersion) == 2022">
<Message Importance="high" Text="*** running pre-dispatch builds ***" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(AssemblyName).csproj" Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);TargetFramework=net48;RevitVersion=2021" />
</Target>
You will also notice that I changed to the $(AssemblyName) in the Projects, which just made it easier for me to copy and paste between my different projects CSPROJ files.
I did have to copy and paste this in to every project in my solution to get everything working correctly. I need to spend a little time looking at a core project with imports or targets that way everything is not needed to be copy/paste. But it is working for my Solution for the time being.
I hope this was helpful for your build where you are targeting .NET Framework 48 and also working with Revit 2021 and 2022.
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