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I'm interested in controlling a grasshopper model using a custom component programmed in C# as a VS studio project (e.g. modifying slider values as part of an optimization algorithm, as Galapagos does). I found a post that began discussing this topic, but moved to other topics before addressing this question:   http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/use-pythoneditor-to-run   Thanks,   Kirk