How to set up Visual Studio Express to create custom components in C#

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 30, 2013 at 9:12am

Thanks James.

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on March 12, 2014 at 5:25am

For people reading this today -- all these actions are now handled by the assembly wizard, plus the creation of the PlugIn class and the first Command class, with samples.

This assembly wizard extensions can be installed also by people with the free, Express version. Just go to Tools -> Extensions -> Online, and search for Grasshopper (or RhinoCommon, for the Rhino version).

Giulio
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Permalink Reply by James Ramsden on March 12, 2014 at 7:48am

Many thanks Giulio - I'll be sure to take a look.

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on March 12, 2014 at 11:33am

Yes, it creates a default post-build event. It's not magic, though :)

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on March 12, 2014 at 2:18pm

Let's say then just a tiny bit magic, all right. Magics is retained from the work of the previous developer. :)

Permalink Reply by James Ramsden on March 12, 2014 at 9:01am

As far as I know, there is no better way. It's an interesting idea though - any suggestions?

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on March 12, 2014 at 11:39am

Hi (theGreenCabbage) and James,

I don't think that what you are referring to is possible. You can, however, use the interactive interpreter (Immediate window - Ctrl-Alt-I) once you are debugging and you hit a breakpoint. In some versions of VS and some environments, you can also Edit-and-Continue (very useful feature -  not possible in 2012 and GH as far as I can tell, but it used to be in VS2008, also Express).

Giulio
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Permalink Reply by Bob Rebadow on January 20, 2016 at 3:38pm

Hey ;) Your link does not work anymore. Is there a PDF or something which you could share with us?

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on January 21, 2016 at 2:11am

Hi Bob,

I would really suggest that you use the Grasshopper Assembly Wizard to set up the project. Please let me know if there is any issue with that!

Later, the SDK documentation can be downloaded with the _GrasshopperGetSDKDocumentation command.

Please let me know if this was helpful,

Giulio
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Permalink Reply by James Ramsden on January 22, 2016 at 8:13pm

Hi Bob,

Here it is. I moved over to a new site around a couple of years ago.

http://james-ramsden.com/setting-up-visual-studio-express-2012-for-...

As Giulio says (and as my post also says) the Grasshopper Assembly Wizard is the method I now recommend. 

Cheers,

James

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on June 20, 2017 at 12:01pm

I am having trouble with missing Wizards in VS 2017.  I installed the Grasshopper Assembly here:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=McNeel.Grasshop...

However, it stopped with "Already installed on all applicable products."  Yet I don't have any assembly wizards when I try to Add... a component from the project browser.

Is it not supported in VS 2017?

Thanks,

Marc

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on June 20, 2017 at 1:15pm

You need the one for V6. The one for V5 is a project that encompassed VS versions from 2010 till 2015. There is no way we can support that many versions going forward, just adding new ones.

At the moment you can still manually select Rhino 5 assemblies in VS 2017.

Giulio
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