Revit WPF Template

Template in visual studio for creating Revit C# .net addin with WPF

WPF in Revit API maybe make some difficulties for the first times to work with it. As a beginner and a selt-touch developper, I waste many times to understand how does it works. So, I create this template to using in my future other projects.

About this template

In this template, I show how I use:

• Organize project with MVVM pattern
• Create and raise external event of Revit API with modeless form WPF
• Binding command totally, not using event in code behind
• Fix some problem with modeless forme: topmost, Window owner, minimize Window
• Integrate type Window, Usercontrol in this template
• Utils for image of icon of ribbon constrol Revit
• Work with Json settings file

How to use it?

• Clone/download this repository and open the .sln at the root of the repository with Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Re-link references to RevitAPI.dll and others which may be missing and restore package from nuget package manager
• Build the solution - Building the solution will automatically create and copy the add-in files to the folder for Revit 2019. Location -- C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2019\TD.Bundle You can change it in Post-Built Event Command Line (Project --> Properties --> Build Event)

• In order to use this as a starter for your application, make sure you first refactor the content in the application files (namespace, assembly name, classes, GUID, etc.).
• You can create a template visual studio like the template Revit API of thebuildingcoder. Follow the guide: Create item template in Visual Studio

UI Addin Exemple in template:

Demo:

Visual studio project

Tree Project

Code behind:

Third Party

• Newtonsoft.Json
• System.Windows.Interactivity.WPF

Licences

MIT © Tien-Duy NGUYEN

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Special thanks to TheBuildingCoder and HOKGroup for helping me to complete my solution.

I hope my solution will be useful for you. Any suggestion and contributions are highly appreciated. 🙏