Visual Studio Revit Add-in Templates

The Visual Studio Revit add-in wizard provides a Visual Studio template for generating C# .NET Revit add-ins.

It enables the instantaneous and automatic generation, installation and debugging of a new C# Revit add-in skeleton with one single click.

Obsolete VB.NET templates are still included, but no longer updated or maintained.

Ample documentation is provided in The Building Coder topic group on Visual Studio Revit add-in templates.

Installation

Installation can be accomplished by cloning this repository and running the installer batch file install.bat as described in The Building Coder discussion of the Revit Add-In Wizards on GitHub and Installer.

install.bat [Visual Studio Year - 2022, 2019, 2017, 2015]

User Project Template Location

Ensure that the destination path specified in install.bat matches your user project template location. You can change the known location for user templates in Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Locations, cf., how to locate and organize project and item templates:

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Alternatives

Several alternative Revit add-in templates have been published.

They are all more complex and full-fledged than this minimalistic one, taking advantage of .NET configuration functionality, providing support for multiple Revit releases, WPF, languages, build systems, installers, Autodesk AppStore support, etc.

Here are some of them:

• Revit2017AddInTemplateSet by Andrey Bushman; for a full discussion of that and comparison of the two, please refer to the article on new Visual Studio templates for Revit add-ins
• Revit2018AddInTemplateSet
• Multi-Version Revit Add-In Template by Yaroslav Zhmayev
• Revit WPF Template by Petr Mitev
• Hellpie dotnet Revit add-in template by Diego Rossi
• Multiversion Revit plugins explained by Alvaro Ortega @alvpickmans Pickmans of matterlab including a comprehensive multiversion-revit-plugin-sample
• Manual approach to maintain a multi-version add-in in multiple projects in single SLN by Pablo Derendinger

Author

Jeremy Tammik, The 3D Web Coder and The Building Coder, ADN Open, Autodesk Inc.

License

This sample is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE file for full details.