Revit in the Cloud - Addin Support

[Anonymous]

The Revit 2016 download page gives me the option to "Try Online". This option seems to fire up a VM with Revit pre-installed, allowing me to work remotely and have deep A360 integration out of box. Impressive!

This raises a few questions:

• Can I build and deploy Add-Ins for these remote Revit instances? If so, do these need Add-Ins need to be hosted publicly (e.g., in an "app store")?
•  Is the API available to Add-Ins on remote Revit instances different from Revit proper? Are there limitations to the .NET libraries I can leverage (e.g., writing to the file system)?
• Can we (as users and developers) expect to have desktop and cloud-based releases of Revit for the foreseeable future? Will Revit Desktop be phased out in favor of a cloud only solution within the next few years? 

Thanks in advance, and a major kudos to the Revit dev team for its great work on cloud-enabled Revit!

[mikako_harada]

Hi Klanea, 

At a moment, there is no API for hosted version of Revit.  Obviously, we want to have it. The product team is experimenting approaches.  Through the app store is certainly one scenario we can think of.  But at a moment, I don't have further information.  I myself is keep checking every once in a while. 

In technology world, things move quickly. But at moment, I do not expect desktop phase away in forseeable future.