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Maya .Net Wizards for Visual Studio

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Maya .Net API C# Wizards by Cyrille Fauvel - Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) January 2014

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Maya-Net-Wizards

A set of Maya API C# Wizards for Visual Studio

The plug-in wizard for the Maya .NET API simplifies the construction of Maya plug-ins by providing a project template and class templates for defining:

• Command plug-ins with support for undo/redo
• Command plug-ins without support for undo/redo
• DAG node plug-ins

Written by Cyrille Fauvel (Autodesk Developer Network), Maintained by Zhong Wu(Autodesk Developer Network) http://www.autodesk.com/adn
http://around-the-corner.typepad.com/

1. Visual Studio Install

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• copy the 'Maya CSharp plug-in.zip' to the '<current user>/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Templates/ProjectTemplates/Visual C#' directory.
• copy the 'Maya CSharp Command with Undo.zip', 'Maya CSharp Command.zip', and 'Maya CSharp Node.zip' files to the '<current user>/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Templates/ItemTemplates/Visual C#' directory.

2. In Visual Studio, do as follows

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• create a C# project, and select the Maya C# plug-in option.
• right-click the project to select Add > Class, and select among three options:
  • Maya C# Command
  • Maya C# Command with Undo Support
  • Maya C# Node

a Wix/MSI installer project will be coming soon

Note:

• The latest plug-in wizard for the Maya .NET API is updated for Visual Studio 2012, and work for Maya 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• Maya 2014 requires using the VC 10.0 Service Pack 1 runtime and the .Net Framework 4.0. You can use Visual Studio 2012 to develop C# plug-ins, but have to use the .Net 4.0 framework.