OpenAndActivateDocument exits macro

[LukeDavenport]

Well I thought the OpenAndActivateDocument method should be simple, but I am getting an unexpected exit when running a Macro. Simple reproducible example shown below - what am I doing wrong? The code exits (without an error!) straight after the document has been opened and activated, and doesn't continue to subsequent code.....

Help please!

Public Sub TestOpenActivate()
    
        Dim App As Autodesk.Revit.ApplicationServices.Application = Me.Application
        Dim UIApp As UIApplication = New UIApplication(Me.Application)
        
        ' Open and activate document 
        Dim WorkingDocUI As UIDocument = UIApp.OpenAndActivateDocument("C:\Temp\TestProject.rvt")
        ' DOCUMENT IS SUCCESSFULLY OPENED AND ACTIVATED, BUT THE CODE EXITS UNEXPECTEDLY HERE.....
        
        ' Do some other stuff here...
         Dim NewProjFilePath As String = App.DefaultProjectTemplate
        Dim WorkingDoc As Document = App.NewProjectDocument(NewProjFilePath)
    
End Sub

[LukeDavenport]

Really appreciate help anyone can offer - pretty sure I'm doing something simple and stupid.

I'm using Revit 2017 SP2

Many thanks in advance

Luke

[Charles.Piro]

Hi,

When you create your Macro, are you in Application or in Project ?

For open and Active an other Document, your Macro must be create in Application :

public void TestOpenAndActiveDoc()
{
			UIApplication uiapp = ActiveUIDocument.Application;
			UIDocument _uidoc = uiapp.OpenAndActivateDocument(@"C:\Temp\Projet1.rvt");
			Document doc = _uidoc.Document;
}

[LukeDavenport]

Hi Charles, thanks for the reply!

Yes I am using an Application macro. 

I get the same issue with your code. However on further investigation it seems that it is an issue with SharpDevelop debugging specifically, as the code runs fine when 'running' normally.

Can you try something for me? When I run this simple C# macro below - the project is activated successfully, but then the debugger skips step through for all the subsequent lines of code. Do you get the same behaviour?

Many thanks for your help.

Luke

public void TestOpenAndActiveDoc()
{
    UIApplication uiapp = ActiveUIDocument.Application;

    // Open and activate document 
    UIDocument WorkingDocUI = uiapp.OpenAndActivateDocument(@"C:\StartProject.rvt");
    // DOCUMENT IS SUCCESSFULLY OPENED AND ACTIVATED, BUT THE DEBUGGER DOES NOT ALLOW STEP THROUGH FROM HERE ONWARDS

    // Do some other stuff here...
    string Dummy = "";

    TaskDialog.Show("ABC", "Finished");

}

[Anonymous]

There does seem to be a genuine problem with using OpenAndActivateDocument method in the SharpDevelop debugger. Can anyone help on this, or is everyone else using Visual Studio for debugging their Revit code?

Thanks,

Luke