hello, does anyone own this book, do you know if a work like this exists in English or French sorry for the slight off-topic
Sincerely
christian.stan
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You can contact the author here https://revitapibook.com
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Hi, thank you for your response, I sent an email, in any case I will buy it this afternoon (I will indicate if an English version exists after the author returns.) the subject was more if there are English works on the same theme
Sincerely
christian.stan
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Would a book on this subject not be out of date very quickly?
Yes and no - most of the time we don’t have wholesale changes year to year. 2022-2025 have been pretty brutal though as a result of Units, ElementIds, and .NET version. All of which were absolute musts for Revit to grow, but often (looking back from 2016 to 2021) the updates are much more limited in scope year to year. That means that a book (or say a blog post) written in 2016 is mostly relevant today.
The content on the Building Coder github likely illustrates this well - most updates are a line here or there for each release; rarely is a class completely overhauled. And learning to deal with those sort of small changes is part of being a developer anyway…
The key bit isn’t ‘what is the exact code to do X’ but more ‘what is the structure I should use for building a tool and writing a code to do X’. These are FAR more useful from a book standpoint and haven’t changed as far back as I can recall, though you might opt to use another structure today with the .NET changes…
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