Visual Studio Revit API Extension

This Extension provides Visual Studio Resources to help .NET Developers to Create different kind of Applications for Autodesk Revit.

With this extension, you can:

• Create different kind of Revit Plug-ins using Project Templates.
• Create Typical Files using Item Templates.
• Write Code faster using Code Snippets.
• Improve and become faster your Deploy Process.

Project Templates

• Revit Command: Create a Revit Command with a Push Button in the Ribbon Bar
• Revit Event DB Application: Create a Revit DB Application associated to DocumentOpened Event Handler
• Revit Event Application: Create a Revit Application associated to DocumentOpened Event Handler

File Templates

• Application Manifest: Create a new Application Manifest for your Revit Add-in
• DBApplication Manifest: Create a new DBApplication Manifest for your Revit Add-in
• Command Manifest: Create a new Command Manifest for your Revit Add-in
• External Application: Create a new External Application
• External Command: Create a new External Command

Code Snippets

Snippets Summary

Use the following shorcuts to use the code snippets that provided this extension: revit, tr, cl get, pi and sl. Some of them gruops more than one snippet.

Category	Shortcut	Options	Description
Starter	revit	Multiple Options	Add Document, UIDocument, Application and UI Application objects.
Starter	revit	Multiple Options	Check Revit version.
Transaction	tr	No Multiple Options	Instantiates a transaction object.
Collector	cl	collector	Constructs a new FilteredElementCollector that will search and filter the set of elements in a document.
Collector	cl	collector-class-types	Applies an ElementClassFilter and ElementIsElementTypeFilter to the collector and returns Types.
Collector	cl	collector-class-instances	Applies an ElementClassFilter and ElementIsElementTypeFilter to the collector and returns Instances.
Collector	cl	collector-cat-types	Applies an ElementCategoryFilter and ElementIsElementTypeFilter to the collector and returns Types.
Collector	cl	collector-cat-instances	Applies an ElementCategoryFilter and ElementIsElementTypeFilter to the collector and returns Instances.
Element	get	No multiple options	Gets the Element referenced by the input ElementId.
Model	pi	No multiple options	Return the Project Information of the current project.
Selection	sl	pick-object	Prompts the user to select one object.
Selection	sl	pick-objects	Prompts the user to select multiple objects.
Selection	sl	selection	Retrieve the currently selected Elements in Autodesk Revit.

Deployment process

Some features were added to the extension in order to become faster the process to mantain every Add-in.

• Configuration Manager: Create custom configuration for each Revit version. You can have some variations
• Post-Build Event Command Line: Post built command to copy files in the correct location depending what you need.