I have searched nearly everywhere, but cannot find a way of creating/inserting a new Page/Tab in C# within a Visio document. I recorded a VB Macro of creating a new page within a document, and it is really simple there. However, I am using C# and cannot find the right commnands. Thanks in advance!
Writing in C# you will use the same COM API which VBA uses. A simple way to automate Visio using C# is to download and install the Primary Interop Assembly (PIA). Then include the reference Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio in your project. Here is a simple example of using the PIA to manipulate the pages in a Visio document.
namespace VisioExample
{
using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio;
class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Start Visio
Application app = new Application();
// Create a new document.
Document doc = app.Documents.Add("");
// The new document will have one page,
// get the a reference to it.
Page page1 = doc.Pages[1];
// Add a second page.
Page page2 = doc.Pages.Add();
// Name the pages. This is what is shown in the page tabs.
page1.Name = "Abc";
page2.Name = "Def";
// Move the second page to the first position in the list of pages.
page2.Index = 1;
}
}
}
To learn about developing solutions you can look at the Developing Visio Solutions book online. Download the Visio SDK, it contains a library of sample code in C#. You could look at "Visio 2003 Developer's Survival Pack" by Graham Wideman. As you found, the macro recorder can show you the API methods you need to call to achieve a task. The COM API used by VBA are the same API you will use in C#, the syntax of the code will differ obviously.
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I've exhausted every resource possible and can not figure out what the issue is. Button images won't show & keep getting this message when I try to use the command.
Failed to initialize the [add-in name] because the assembly [path to an add-in DLL file] does not exist
when launching Revit. Here's my code that I'm using.
#region Namespaces
using Autodesk.Revit.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.CSharp;
using System.Media;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO.Packaging;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB.Architecture;
#endregion
namespace TpMechanical
{
internal class App : IExternalApplication
{
public Result OnStartup(UIControlledApplication a)
{
String tabname = "TpMechanical";
String panelname = "Tools";
//Option 1
BitmapImage b1Image = (System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage)TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("_design3_fhY_icon.ico");
BitmapImage b2Image = (System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage)TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("_design3_fhY_icon.ico");
BitmapImage b3Image = (System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage)TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("_design3_fhY_icon.ico");
//Option 2
//Bitmap b1Image = (System.Drawing.Bitmap)(TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("Icon1.ico"));
//Bitmap b2Image = (System.Drawing.Bitmap)(TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("Image1.jpg"));
//Bitmap b3Image = (System.Drawing.Bitmap)(TpMechanical.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("Image2.bmp"));
//Option 3
//BitmapImage b1Image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("pack:application:,,,/TpMechanical/Resources/Icon1.ico"));
//BitmapImage b2Image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("pack:application:,,,/TpMechanical/Resources/Image1.jpg"));
//BitmapImage b3Image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("pack:application:,,,/TpMechanical/Resources/Image2.bmp"));
a.CreateRibbonTab(tabname);
var Tools = a.CreateRibbonPanel(tabname, panelname);
var button1 = new PushButtonData("TpButton1", "Button1", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, "TpMechanical.command");
button1.ToolTip = " This is a short description";
button1.LongDescription = "This is a long description \n " +
"this is the second line";
var btn1 = Tools.AddItem(button1);
button1.Image = b1Image;
var button2 = new PushButtonData("TpButton2", "Button2", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, "TpMechanical.command2");
button2.ToolTip = " This is a short description";
button2.LongDescription = "This is a long description \n " +
"this is the second line";
button2.Image = b2Image;
var button3 = new PushButtonData("TpButton3", "Button3", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, "TpMechanical.command3");
button3.ToolTip = " This is a short description";
button3.LongDescription = "This is a long description \n " +
"this is the second line";
button3.Image = b3Image;
Tools.AddStackedItems(button2, button3);
return Result.Succeeded;
}
public Result OnShutdown(UIControlledApplication a)
{
return Result.Succeeded;
}
}
}
I also have my manifest code below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RevitAddIns>
<AddIn Type="Command">
<Text>Command TpMechanical</Text>
<Description>Some description for TpMechanical</Description>
<VisibilityMode>AlwaysVisible</VisibilityMode>
<Assembly>C:\My Revit- Custom Files\01-Revit 2021\Revit 2021 Repos\TpMechanical\bin\Debug\TpMechanical.dll</Assembly>
<FullClassName>TpMechanical.Command</FullClassName>
<ClientId>9EDCBEA6-942A-4D9A-932D-612B5E02DC9C</ClientId>
<VendorId>com.typepad.thebuildingcoder</VendorId>
<VendorDescription>The Building Coder, http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com</VendorDescription>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Command">
<Text>Command TpMechanical</Text>
<Description>Some description for TpMechanical</Description>
<VisibilityMode>AlwaysVisible</VisibilityMode>
<Assembly>C:\My Revit- Custom Files\01-Revit 2021\Revit 2021 Repos\TpMechanical\bin\Debug\TpMechanical.dll</Assembly>
<FullClassName>TpMechanical.Command2</FullClassName>
<ClientId>1A164A1B-8B02-499A-8ADB-94A75557CD66</ClientId>
<VendorId>com.typepad.thebuildingcoder</VendorId>
<VendorDescription>The Building Coder, http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com</VendorDescription>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Command">
<Text>Command TpMechanical</Text>
<Description>Some description for TpMechanical</Description>
<VisibilityMode>AlwaysVisible</VisibilityMode>
<Assembly>C:\My Revit- Custom Files\01-Revit 2021\Revit 2021 Repos\TpMechanical\bin\Debug\TpMechanical.dll</Assembly>
<FullClassName>TpMechanical.Command3</FullClassName>
<ClientId>C5CEC594-E407-40A8-B1B0-163DAA179CDD</ClientId>
<VendorId>com.typepad.thebuildingcoder</VendorId>
<VendorDescription>The Building Coder, http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com</VendorDescription>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Application">
<Name>Application TpMechanical</Name>
<Assembly>C:\My Revit- Custom Files\01-Revit 2021\Revit 2021 Repos\TpMechanical\bin\Debug\TpMechanical.dll</Assembly>
<FullClassName>TpMechanical.App</FullClassName>
<ClientId>C12635D2-96E2-4DF4-B172-7BD9487F7AE9</ClientId>
<VendorId>com.typepad.thebuildingcoder</VendorId>
<VendorDescription>The Building Coder, http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com</VendorDescription>
</AddIn>
</RevitAddIns>
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Rereading your question a third time over, it sounds as if your add-in is trying to reference a .NET assembly DLL that cannot be found when Revit tries to load it. Looking at the list of namespaces that you reference in your source code using statements, I see nothing but standard Autodesk Revit, Microsoft and .NET assemblies listed. So, they should all be present and accessible. Are you using anything else elsewhere in your code that is not obvious from that list? You might be able to use tools like fuslogv to analyse your add-in dependencies during load time, as suggested in the note on Exploring Assembly Reference DLL Hell with Fuslogvw.
I suggest you try again with a minimal one-liner external command and a minimal one-liner add-in manifest.
Follow these steps: Revit developers guide add-in registration.
Ensure that Revit has read access to its AddIns folder.
Look at the Hello world walkthrough.
Do not say you exhausted all resources. That would take too long and probably exceed your life span. New resources are being added faster than you can consume them, so any attempt is doomed to fail.
The error message is telling you that the problem is not in the internal implementation code, but just in the basic registration.
Why do you add internal to the IExternalApplication implementation? Isn't that a contradiction? What does that mean?
Why do you use The Building Coder VendorId? That is incorrect. You are not The Building Coder.
Your Assembly path is complex and littered with spaces. In general, I try to avoid such complex paths and all spaces in folder names. I also prefer forward slashes to backward ones. You can omit the folder name entirely if you place the DLL in the same place as the add-in manifest in the AddIns folder.
I am being inundated with similar questions these days. Here is another similar one, a summary of a recent email thread:
[Q] I have dived into the Getting Started with Revit platform API, following the DevTV tutorial by Augusto Goncalves. None of my commands appear on the Revit UI > Add Ins > external commands.
[A] One thing you ought to read is the introductory section of the Revit API developers guide. It tells you exactly what to do to install and launch your add-in. It is shocking of that information is not clear and does not work in the tutorial, though. Thank you for bringing it up!
Installing a Revit add-in is really simple, but people run into difficulties like you describe anyway.
There are only two relevant components:
Add-in manifest file *.addin
.NET class library assembly DLL
These are the important steps:
The DLL must implement IExternalCommand; that means, it must implement the Execute method.
The add-in manifest must point to the DLL and must be placed in the Revit Add-Ins folder for Revit to find and load it.
If the DLL and add-in manifest both reside in the Revit AddIns folder, the full DLL path can be omitted; otherwise it must be specified.
That is really all.
There are thousands of places explaining it; they all say the same thing.
Good luck and lots of fun with the Revit API :-)
[R] I have not had any luck since yesterday about my add-in not appearing in the Revit external commands.
I have carefully structured my code correctly. The add-in manifest file is pointing to my project .dll file. My project class explicitly implements the IExternalCommand interface and fires up the Execute method just fine.
I don't understand what the issue could be, not sure it could be the revit version am using am trying to figure out all possibilities.
[R2] I managed to debug my code. Kindly, ignore previous message.
The location of my manifest add-in file was locked. I guess that was done when my account was set up. The location needed permission to be accessed. This path:
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2022\
I utilised the try and catch exception to see the issue.
Once I gave access permission, the add-in file is now visible; it worked!
I'm making an app and need to be able to check if settings like : Bluetooth/Phone Rotation/Flashlight/Plane Mode/GPS/Phone Brightness/Silent Mode, are activated on an android phone.
I haven't found any way to do it within Unity, using C#. I found ways to do it using Xamarin but none of them work with Unity (or maybe I haven't done it right), the only way I found is using Java and making it into a plugin and call it in a C# script. But I can't find a clear way to make this work. If this is the only solution could you please explain how to do it, all the documentation I find is from old versions from 2014.
I think there is a simple solution for this but I simply can't find it. And the manifest part is not a problem, I'll add the permissions needed.
In Java the methods you want to call should be public or static, you must build your java source as a library (in build.gradle: apply plugin: 'com.android.library'), and add the .aar to Unity's Assets/Plugins/Android/ folder.
Then you can instantiate your plugin in Unity like so:
// this class string is the package at the top of your Java class extended with the class name, e.g.:
// package com.yourcompany.you.package;
string classString = "com.yourcompany.you.package.className";
// Get the class
var tempAjc = new AndroidJavaClass(classString);
// Here you can call a static method on the class that returns an instance of the class if you want to pass some parameters upon creation
_androidObject = tempAjc.CallStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("CreateInstance",
new object[] {arg1, arg2});
// non static call on your new instance
_androidObject.Call("PassingMoreStuff", initParam);
// if you want to return something from Java to Unity:
int javaVal = _androidObject.Call<int>(methodName, parameters);
I have a VBA project for Microsoft Office Outlook, which I'd like to rewrite as an Outlook Add-in with the help of NetOffice.
Here's a piece of VBA code which I'd like to transfer:
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set m_colCalendarItems = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar).Items
Application represents the running Outlook application.
My respective code in NetOffice looks like this:
Outlook.Application objApp = Outlook.Application.GetActiveInstance();
Outlook._NameSpace objNS = (Outlook._NameSpace)objApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
m_colCalendarItems = (Outlook.Items)objNS.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderCalendar).Items;
Quite a lot of casts, surely this can be handled better. But the main problem is that I don't get a reference to the running application in the first line (objApp is null). Although this code is in the Addin_OnStartupComplete routine.
Any tips on how to set this up better?
I found the solution. The code snippet I postet is running in a class method. It is called from the Addin_OnStartupComplete in the Addin class (Auto-generated by the NetOffice Developer Toolbox).
I can get a reference to the running application: It's the Application property of the Addin class. I can provide this to the called method:
public class Addin : Outlook.Tools.COMAddin // this was auto-generated by the NetOffice Developer Toolbox
{
FolderEvents m_folderevents = new FolderEvents(); // 'FolderEvents' is my class
// additional auto-generated code removed
private void Addin_OnStartupComplete(ref Array custom)
{
m_folderevents.InitFolders(this.Application);
}
}
I’m at the moment automating the test for a legacy application developed in vb6, which uses a GridEx2000b Control from Janus Systems.
For doing this I’m using Ranorex as my favorite tool for developing the test automation, so that I can develop the test code using c#.
My problem now is to automate the GridEx 2000b control, which Ranorex out of-the-box don’t have any support for. Therefore I’m trying to figure out a solution where I can reference the GrixEx control using the Win32 handle I can find for the control, so I can use the ComInterface from the component to navigate the automate the control.
I have an idea of a solution but I cannot figure out how to do it, where I hope that you guys would be able help me.
The pseudo code for the problem:
using GridEX20;
class GridExWrapper
{
public GridEX20.GridEXClass Instance;
public GridExWrapper(IntPtr win32handle)
{
Instance = (GridEX20.GridEXClass)Win32ControlUtilities.GetControlReference(win32Handle);
}
}
class Win32ControlUtilities
{
public static SomeKindOfHandle GetControlReference(IntPtr win32Handle)
{
...
...
...
}
}
I’ll get the win32handle from Ranorex or some other spy tool.
Then I can use the GridExWrapper like this.
using NUnit.Framework;
class Program
{
[Test]
public void control_should_have_9_items()
{
/// Get win32 handle from Ranorex
IntPtr win32handle = XXXXXX;
int expectedItemCount = 9;
GridEXClass control = new GridExWrapper(win32handle);
Assert.AreEqual(expectedItemCount, control.ItemCount);
}
}
You could try the Microsoft UI Automation library (System.Windows.Automation) for identifying the properties of the control. Sometimes even if Ranorex fails, MSUIA manages to recognize the control as it looks into native properties of a control for identification. Not guaranteed but worth a try.Here is a link to a tutorial on using MSUIA.
As I have a web form I need to fill in repeatedly, can I construct a Java or C# program to populate the form automatically? For example below is a sample contact us form, I wish that when I click on the Java or C# program, the form could be filled in automatically. How to achieve this?
maybe you need to use some autotesting techology. For example: selenium (Java), watir (Ruby), watin (.net).
Those tool provide browser abstraction that help manipulate with page and controls on it.
There is little example:
package selenium.example;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver;
public class ExampleSearch {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
// Open Google
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
element.sendKeys("selenium best practices");
// Send form with element
element.submit();
}
}
JavaScript is a much better way to do this. Use the right tool for the right job.