Building a component with Visual C# Express 2008

While building a component with Visual C# Express 2008, the largest difficulty to overcome is arguably the setup because of the time to get accustomed to the interface and the environment.

In less than 10 minutes, this video shows how to set up Visual C# Express 2008 to produce a simple component with icon for Grasshopper (a .gha file). This video also helps new users to get familiar with the interface and goes through the key steps to effectively use the Grasshopper SDK. At best, download the original video or follow the tutorial with captions.

The post-build event contains this text:
Copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).gha"
Erase "$(TargetPath)"

The Guid generator is Guidgen.exe, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...

Grasshopper version is 0.8.004
Rhino version is 4.0 SR8
Visual C# Express 2008 SP1, registered (free)
OS is Windows 7

Final project folder (7-zip can decompress): download

Video: link (Right-click > Save as...), subtitles

Please contact me at the email address below, or leave a comment if you have any doubt.

- Giulio

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McNeel Europe, Barcelona

Tags: 2008, C#, Express, Visual, component, setup

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Comment by Kim Dong Wook on September 7, 2011 at 8:32am: Thanks for good posting! :-)

Comment by Cho Chung Man on August 23, 2011 at 3:32am: Great staff... thanks...

Comment by Ángel Linares on January 4, 2011 at 10:56am: I have learned a lot about Visual Studio in your video. Thanks!!!

Comment by Giulio Piacentino on December 23, 2010 at 5:14am: I've changed the link to the full file.

- Giulio

Comment by Arthur Mani on December 23, 2010 at 4:54am: Hi Giulio,

Thank you so much for posting this video.

How would you compare writing a component using C# to VB.net ?

I am having a bit of troubles decompressing the video here are errors I get when decompressing the files...

Best Wishes,

Arthur

Comment by Matthew Swarts on December 22, 2010 at 2:57pm: Great!

Comment by Ali Gharakhani on December 19, 2010 at 11:26am: Thanks Giulio !

P.S : and check this out :
http://bit.ly/dSUunh
I am still working on shortest path !