I’m working to get my plugin working in Rhino 8. I at first tried to switch to the .net 7 framework, but ran into a bunch of problems. So I’m sticking with 4.8. I think I saw this suggested somewhere anyways and it seems to be working fine now. Please someone let me know if I should really be gettin…

Hey @samlochner , If you want to support Rhino 7 (win and/or mac), you’ll need to release net48 until you sunset that support. Also to keep in mind. Rhino 8 will likely run net48 for its lifetime as Rhino 8 still runs net48, and Rhino.Inside.Revit is quite popular and has to use the same framework. …

Thanks vicente. This stuff is quite over my head… I’m going to have to do some learning… but for now it does sound reasonable to just ust .net 4.8. Did you see my question about the fatal error? It says to configure the project to use the ‘Managed (CoreCLR)’ debugger, but I have no clue how to do t…

I’ve never got that error, but from the text it might be related to trying to debug a library targeting net framework 4.8, in Rhino 8 using the new .net 7.0. You might have to change the debugger configuration to force it to use CoreCLR. I don’t know if this is the issue, but if it is, it’s another…

The debugging may be trying to use 7.0 and failing. I’m generally writing plugins which work under 4.8 or 7.0 and have not seen this problem. I’ll throw the following out anyway. Two suggestions: This looks like a debugger problem. Have you tried the release build within both Rhino 7.0 and 8.0…

CSykes , I’m on windows. Running setDotNetRuntime and setting runtime to netframework solved the problem, thanks! I think it’s only me that has to do this to get VS to be able to launch and debug and my users can just stick with default runtime when using the plugin. Though I have noticed a couple bu…

[image] samlochner: For now I’m going to keep going with 4.8. Just as a note, the setdotnetruntime approach changes the default startup to 4.8. If you want to be able to flip back and forth to test both ways (to confirm that it works under 7.0 moving forward) you can use the corresponding co…

[image] Vicente Soler: do you know of any downsides of targeting just netstandard2.0? I started targeting 4.8 and 7.0 because that’s what the McNeel sample code and project creators for Visual Studio do. My assumption is that: this guarantees that any framework tools Visual Studio will let…

All of those issues is what net standard is supposed to address. I have less risk of weird compiler or deployment problems if I follow a “Monkey see, monkey do” approach and follow McNeel. I think this mentality is right, but in this case I would follow what Microsoft recommends, which are the o…

An excellent question @visose ! RhinoCommon targets net4.8 so you can’t target any lower than that, ipso facto, you can’t target netstandard2.0 when using RhinoCommon. If you’re writing a library that doesn’t reference it then I personally multi-target to netstandard2.0 and (net6.0 or net7.0). Net…

[image] CSykes: RhinoCommon targets net4.8 so you can’t target any lower than that, ipso facto, you can’t target netstandard2.0 when using RhinoCommon. This is not correct, you might be under the impression that .net standard is an older runtime. I recommend you read this article: .NET Standa…

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visose (Vicente Soler) December 4, 2023, 8:57pm 9

@csykes, @Nathan_Bossett do you know of any downsides of targeting just netstandard2.0? (if you’re not using Windows APIs)

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