Revit 2025 - Macro Manager and Visual Studio 2022

[ricaun]

The Macro Manager changed in Revit 2025, now you need to have .NET SDK 8.0 and Visual Studio Code installed on your machine to create and build the macro in C#.

I found a way to use Visual Studio 2022 (which should also work with Rider) instead of using Visual Studio Code.

You need to change the configuration in the Macro Manager and add a custom code.cmd (https://gist.github.com/ricaun/482edc40d2b680ab733e12492264fd0d).

The code.cmd file finds the .csproj in the folder and tries to open it.

This should work without Visual Studio Code installed on the machine. 😁

[ankofl]

Oh! Perfectly!

Thank you very much!

[rawava1350]

Great, wish this was the default, with no restrictions on IDE usage. Not every developer likes VS Code

[jeremy_tammik]

Congratulations on discovering this and thank you for sharing! I added it to today's blog post:

• https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2024/04/revit-2025-and-revitlookup-2025.html#6

[josborneW959Y]

Cool! Is there any way to get the extension to enable debugging?

[ricaun]

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@josborneW959Y wrote:

Cool! Is there any way to get the extension to enable debugging?

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Sure: https://github.com/ricaun-io/RevitAddin.VisualStudioDebug

[Eduardo.SaezDRTV4]

So from Revit 2025 coding has to be in C#, there is no way to code in VB or Python ?

[jeremy_tammik]

> So from Revit 2025 coding has to be in C#

No. The Revit API is based on .NET.

> there is no way to code in VB or Python ?

You can use any language that can connect appropriately to the Revit .NET API framework.

[Eduardo.SaezDRTV4]

Thought so, just wanted to confirm.
So guess I need start learning C# then and quickly

Thanks Jeremy

[jeremy_tammik]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tips-for-python-developers