From the course: Revit: Creating C# Plugins
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Setting up Visual Studio
- [Instructor] Now that we're familiar with the Revit API, let's start by creating our first Revit plugin. To create Revit plugins, I'll be using the Visual Studio IDE or Integrated Development Environment. If you prefer to use another IDE feel free to do so. However, all videos in this course will utilize Visual Studio. If you need to download Visual Studio, you can do so by navigating to visualstudio.microsoft.com on whatever browser you're using. Here you'll find the option to download Visual Studio IDE by hovering over the download for Windows. This pulls up the different download versions. I'll be using the free version, which is Community 2017. By selecting this, it will run the automatic download for the installer for Visual Studio. Go ahead and save this, and then start the install. When installing Visual Studio, you'll be prompted by this menu. This allows us to select different components that we want installed when installing Visual Studio. The different components allow us…
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