Support for .net framework or .net core for building Revit plugin / ribbion.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am building a Revit plugin / ribbon and would like to know which version of .net framework or .net core can I use with different Revit versions. I am using Revit 2017, 2018, 2019.

Can I use .net core or only .net framework can be used.

Could someone please provide complete list of compatibility between various Revit versions and .net framework or core versions.

Thanks,
Amit Sethi

[jlpgy]

2016: net45

2017: net452

2018: net46

2019: net47

2020: net47

[john_dalessandro]

If you want core compatibility, you can also target .NET Standard 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for providing the solution. Is dot net core supported for writing Revit plugins. Versions of Revit still remain the same as asked in the question.

Thanks,

Amit

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks for providing the solution. Could you please provide more details about it. Which version of Revit support dot net standard libraries. More details are mentioned in the question.

[jlpgy]

Hi :

.NET implementation support

The following table lists the minimum platform versions that support each .NET Standard version. That means that later versions of a listed platform also support the corresponding .NET Standard version. For example, .NET Core 2.2 supports .NET Standard 2.0 and earlier.

.NET Standard           1.0    1.1      1.2     1.3     1.4      1.5         1.6       2.0         2.1

.NET Core	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
.NET Framework 1	4.5	4.5	4.5.1	4.6	4.6.1	4.6.1 2	4.6.1 2	4.6.1 2	N/A3

I think the target .NET Standard version should be:

2016: 1.0, 1.1

2017: 1.3

2018: 1.3

2019: 2.1 or later? (I'm not sure about this version, Cuz Miscrosoft has not yet determined it)

2020: 2.1 or later?

Besides:

If you want to build a Revit addin into .NET Standard, as well as to include some WPF solution, things will get much more complicated.

In our solution, we manually edited our .props file, which describes the solution and project. It's a new way that Microsoft supplies, for their new .NET Core & .NET Standard VS solutions.

You might need to read lots of MSBuild documents if you want to manually edit the .props files.

https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuild?view=vs-2017 

Considering that you were asking about .NET Core questions, so I suppose that you must have known well about the new <Project> .props file 🙂

[kadallimanjunath]

Which net framework should be used for Revit 2018.3?

[lukaskohout]

Same as for Revit 2018, ergo 46.