How to fetch the dependencies that the open GH script has using C#

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Hey guys,

How can I fetch the dependencies that the current opened GH script has?
I need to do this using C#.

I tried to see if the “GH_Document” had some dependencies list that could be filled automatically, but could not do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ricardo

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Do you mean add more (using) dependencies?
Here you can do it.

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No, I mean when you make a grasshopper script sometimes you add some blocks to your canvas that have “dependencies”.
I need to list all the dependencies from the current GH script so that when giving the script to other person, that person knows which things he must install.

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If you are referring to the plugins that the document uses, you can use:

Grasshopper.Instances.ComponentServer.FindAssemblyByObject(documentObject);

to access to its GH_AssemblyInfo and get some info from there. If you want to go deeper, you can use the Assembly property and the Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies method.

GH already does that :v And I’m not sure you can read components that the user doesn’t have installed from a scripting component.

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Yes, you cannot read components without installing the needed things, however, my use case is:

Current user wants to share a GH_Script, then my code must understand what dependencies that shared script has so that user number 2 that might want to use the script has a list of the dependencies he must install.

I am guessing GH_Assembly “Name” is enough for my case.
Normal components seem to have this name as Grasshopper, then I can ignore those, others seem to have right names, like “Kangoro”, “GH_Sofistik”, “Karamba” etc

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Again, GH already does that.