https://github.com/salaros/vs-templates-revit-addin

Visual Studio C# (project) template for easy Revit add-in creation
https://github.com/salaros/vs-templates-revit-addin

add-in addin application csharp revit revit-api template visual-studio vs2017

Last synced: 19 days ago
JSON representation

Visual Studio C# (project) template for easy Revit add-in creation

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/salaros/vs-templates-revit-addin
• Owner: salaros
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-07-13T09:26:56.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-01T11:17:48.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-05T13:44:09.917Z (24 days ago)
• Topics: add-in, addin, application, csharp, revit, revit-api, template, visual-studio, vs2017
• Language: C#
• Size: 292 KB
• Stars: 85
• Watchers: 18
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
Visual Studio Revit Add-in Template [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/vxajagat45cfeeky?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/salaros/vs-templates-revit-addin)

===================================

![Revit version](https://img.shields.io/badge/Revit-2014%20%E2%9E%9C%202020-blue.svg)

![Github All Releases](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/Equipple/vs-templates-revit-addin/total.svg)

![GitHub tag](https://img.shields.io/github/tag/Equipple/vs-templates-revit-addin.svg)

![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-Windows-red.svg)

![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Equipple/vs-templates-revit-addin.svg)

Visual Studio C# (project) template for easy [Revit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Revit) add-in creation.

## Installation & Update

Just grab the latest release (.zip file) from [releases page](https://github.com/Equipple/vs-templates-revit-addin/releases) and copy it into 

```

"%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#"

```

(use Visual Studio 2017 if you have that version)

## 🟊🟊🟊 Support this project 🟊🟊🟊

You can support us in a small way, please consider starring and sharing this repo! It helps us getting known and grow the community.

![star us](.github/assets/star_us.gif)

## Personalization

#### Add-in metadata

Unlike other add-in template this one doesn't require constantly updating .addin file. It takes all the information from project properties:

![Project properties](assets/properties-add-in-data.png "Project properties")

#### Revit versions

By default the newly created add-in will target Revit x64 2014-2019, you could target fewer versions by simply removing items from `TargetFrameworks`:

![Revit versions](assets/revit-versions.png "Revit versions")

## Debug

For your convenience in `Debug` configuration the add-in will copy its manifest to `%AppData%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins` folder with Assembly tags pointing to your compilation output folder.

Before starting the debugger make sure you have selected the proper Revit version:

![Debugger selection](assets/debugger-selection.png "Debugger selection")

If Revit won't start probably you have installed it to a non-default location and you have to modify [launchSettings.json](src/Properties/launchSettings.json) file.

You could also use [launchSettings.json](src/Properties/launchSettings.json) to tweak command line parameters passed to Revit.exe file, e.g. you might want Revit to open a project template / family file for every debug session you start.

## License

This project is licensed under the terms of the [MIT License](LICENSE).

## Credits

This template has been inspired by both [Jeremy Tammik](https://github.com/jeremytammik)'s [project templates](https://github.com/jeremytammik/VisualStudioRevitAddinWizard) and [Sander Obdeijn](https://github.com/sanderobdeijn)'s [blog post](http://buildingknowledge.eu/custom-msbuild-targets-for-compiling-addins-for-multiple-revit-versions/) about multi-targeteting different versions of Revit from one project.