VSCode intelliSense for Revit

As most of you have probably got, the better achievements I have as a developer within Revit API are thanks to Python 🐍, so, I thought was nice to share with you the environment I set-up for myself in Visual Studio Code (Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined).

Many thanks to Gui Talarico that shared a fundamental repository for the arguments we are going to discuss today:

GitHub - gtalarico/ironpython-stubs: Autocomplete stubs for common IronPython/.NET libraries

side note: as suggested from Gui Talarico "stubs would technically need to be generated for each Revit API version and they haven't in a while, so stubs might be a little stale."

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In the below video I show a step by step, from zero to hero, setting up.

Here, in short, the list of what to do:

• Download the stumps from the above link
• If you didn't yet:
  • Install Visual Studio Code
  • Install Python extension for VSCode
• Edit the settings.json file of the Python extension
  • Be sure that your python version is IronPython.
  • Be sure to have the stubs path between the extra-paths.
• reload window in VSCode
• enjoy! ✨

I always like the videos, trustful and usually very explicative, however for the lazy-ones, you can't copy/nothing neither you can read with calm, unless you stop in the very right moment...

so I decided to share also how looks my current settings.json file:

1{
2  "workbench.editorAssociations": {
3    "*.ipynb": "jupyter.notebook.ipynb"
4  },
5  "python.pythonPath": "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\IronPython 2.7\\ipy64.exe",
6  "python.languageServer": "Microsoft",
7  "python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
8    "C:\\Users\\giuse\\AppData\\Roaming\\pyRevit-Master\\pyrevitlib",
9    "C:\\Users\\giuse\\AppData\\Roaming\\ironpython-stubs-master\\release\\stubs.min"
10  ],
11  "workbench.colorTheme": "Monokai"
12}
copied!

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Quick and easy, but most of all I want to tell you that it's not a coincidence that in this post I mentioned #pyRevit , the plan is to start on this blog a new series on it, too good to not mention it, too powerful to not use or being amazed from!!!

Stay tuned,
Cheers!