Add-In Wizard for Revit 2013

I have been using an updated version of my Visual Studio Revit C# add-in wizard for Revit 2013 for a while now and thought you might find it useful as well.

It now generates a bit more boiler-plate code up front which can be simply deleted if not needed:

  UIApplication uiapp = commandData.Application;
  UIDocument uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument;
  Application app = uiapp.Application;
  Document doc = uidoc.Document;
 
  // Access current selection
 
  Selection sel = uidoc.Selection;
 
  // Retrieve elements from database
 
  FilteredElementCollector col
    = new FilteredElementCollector( doc )
      .WhereElementIsNotElementType()
      .OfCategory( BuiltInCategory.INVALID )
      .OfClass( typeof( Wall ) );
 
  // Filtered element collector is iterable
 
  foreach( Element e in col )
  {
    Debug.Print( e.Name );
  }
 
  // Modify document within a transaction
 
  Transaction tx = new Transaction( doc );
 
  tx.Start();
  tx.Commit();
 
  return Result.Succeeded;

For the full description of the wizards, please refer to these previous posts:

• Original introduction, benefits, and usage example for C# and VB.
• Personalised minimal C# version for Revit 2011.
• A short additional usage note.
• 64 bit versions for C# and VB.
• Support for the Revit 2012 API for C# and VB.
• Updated C# and VB versions placing assembly DLL alongside add-in manifest and including other changes.

To install, simply copy the zip file to the Visual Studio C# project template folder in your local file system:

• RevitAddinWizardQuasarRP.zip – copy to
  [My Documents]\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Any volunteers to create and test the VB version?