RhinoCommon with Visual Studio

Is there any way to use the new rhinocommon namespace with visual studio? I can use the old opennurbs namespace but that doesn't work with Grasshopper anymore.

I want to debug scrips before using them as components in grasshopper. I've recently made a recursive thing in grasshopper and it was pretty hit and miss without the debugger. A lot of syntax errors and wasted time debugging the thing (at the end of the day I got it to work but to what cost...)

Can one use Visual Studio as the primary editor to debug the script( call stack, watch, breakpoint etc) just to analyze the data without caring about the final geometry and after that paste it into grasshopper? (where's the rhinocommon dll? is it only available with rhino 5?)

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on February 2, 2011 at 1:57am

Hi Liviu,

yes, you can. You need to reference RhinoCommon.dll instead of RhinoDotNET.dll. RhinoCommon.dll is available in Rhino 5 or in the Grasshopper installation folder.

- Giulio
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McNeel Europe, Barcelona

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on May 5, 2011 at 11:09am

Ok, I have RhinoCommon referenced in my project in VS, but, how to debug?

I'm compilling using NET.Framework 3.5 and VS2010.

If I use like debug target Rhino4.exe I have no reports in VS...I've read something about use NET 2.0 to compile for Rhino4.

Best Regards.

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on May 5, 2011 at 12:33pm

Hi again Angel,

yes, with Visual Studio 2010 you can only debug in Rhino 5 (.Net Framework 4.0).

- Giulio
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giulio@mcneel.com
McNeel Europe, Barcelona

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on May 5, 2011 at 4:11pm

Thanks man! Downloading vs2008.

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on May 7, 2011 at 6:46am

Everything's ok. Be carefull if someone try to install VS2008 if you have installed MS Office 2007. You must uninstall office first. (Using Windows 7 x64)

Best Regards.

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