Trying to get MS Visual Studio 2008 Express Working w/ GH

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on June 28, 2010 at 11:58am

Angel, have you looked at David's example in the GH SDK? You can find then in the GH_SDK (Under the help menu in Grasshopper). See if following those gives you different results. How are you setting up the variables to grab the data?

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Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on June 28, 2010 at 12:50pm

Hey,

Thanx Luis! I need to look GH_SDK example.

I'm ussing Rhino 5 64bits and GH 0.60059. At today, 0.7 doesn't give me good sensations because the bugs...but I know that I'll need to learn the new Rhino.Common in future.

What means "settings variables to grab the data"? It's my first time going out of Monkey or Grasshopper to make plugins or scripts :S

Thanks for your usefull help :)

Best.

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on June 28, 2010 at 1:05pm

What I mean by how you are setting up the variables...
for example to get a boolean from the 3rd registered input:

In register parameters:
pManager.Register_BooleanParam("Flip", "f", "Flip Value", False, GH_ParamAccess.item)
pManager(3).Optional = True

In Solve Instance:

Dim flip As Boolean = False
If (Not DA.GetData(3, flip)) Then Return

you should check the overloading of the pManager.Register_BooleanParam as I think what I have above would be for an 0.7 component...

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Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on June 29, 2010 at 8:51am

Thanks for your answer :) I will look at that.

I'm very excited to play a little bit with custom GH components :D

Best Regards.

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Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on December 10, 2010 at 4:13am

Hi Angel,

Which Visual Studio are you guys using to program?

I have never used it...Is there a free version?

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/

Many thanks,

Arthur

 

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 10, 2010 at 11:31am

Grasshopper is written in Visual Studio 2008, the most recent version is 2010. There are Express editions available which are free.

 

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Permalink Reply by Anna Waldon on May 24, 2011 at 4:56am

This is very confusing to a casual. So many versions. Which will be enough? The uni has it all but I'd rather avoid unnecessary complexity. Will VC 2010 Pro with MSDN be OK? I am planning to use VC for a few languages but for simple plugins most of the time.

 

Thank you for the advice.

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 24, 2011 at 5:44am

All you need are the Visual Express Editions (either in C# or VB).  The full version of Visual Studio are great if you have access to them or you have purchased them.  Otherwise, the express editions are free.

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Permalink Reply by Anna Waldon on May 24, 2011 at 6:12am

Thank you, Luis. I see. Well, as I say - the university here has bulk licenses for all possible versions so it is my choice. Last time I used VS was a few years ago but I vaguely remember that Express has limitation. With debugging?

 

So, if I do have the choice - which to choose?