How to reload Plugin for testing custom-made plugins?

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Hi all, I am trying to write some handy custom command with Visual Studio. With Grasshopper we can do a GrasshopperReloadAssemblies to quickly test the Gha.

But can we also do it for Rhino Commands Rhp?
Or do i need to Restart Rhino everytime i made some update?

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GrasshopperReloadAssemblies isn’t quite supported now.

The simple answer is no you can’t (probably shouldn’t) hot reload RHP/GHA due to .NET loading mechanism. I’d recommend VS’es Hot Reload.

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I personally never rely on hot reload from VS, since data state may become different than from I expect opening a whole new world of pain while debugging.

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I would also recommend looking into VS hot reload

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Hi all,
Thanks for your help.

I spent a few hours doing some research but it seems the Hot Reload is only applicable in VS 2022, but the Rhinocommon library is only compatible up to VS 2019, which I am using now.

Please shed some light on this. I would really appreciate it.

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You can use VS 2022 to compile and debug your plug-in. We do not have a project wizard for 2022 yet, but if you have an existing project created in 2019, you can load that into 2022.

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I am using VS 2019 and it has Hot Reload.

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Hi gankeyu,
I am a beginner to Visual Studio. May I know where I can get the Hot Reload? I only see it in 2022.

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OK i troubleshoot it myself, but still, it says here Hot Reload is unavailable…

:confused:

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Oh that hot reload is for Windows Presentation Framework (an UI framework). I’m talking about the “Hot Reload” of applying code changes, this:

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Don’t know which you are referring to

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Thanks.
I didn’t know that button is actually the Hot Reload.

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If you are updating the project wizard at some stage then could you use the expression form for the generated component’s properties?

for example:

    /// <summary>
    /// Provides an Icon for the component.
    /// </summary>
    protected override System.Drawing.Bitmap Icon => Resources.Gantry;

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the unique ID for this component. Do not change this ID after release.
    /// </summary>
    public override Guid ComponentGuid => new Guid("d8b8e5f2-0e2f-4741-88f8-bc9914a6fb05");

it’s small beer but I just prefer the expression form syntax