Summary

Autodesk provide Visual Studio project template for Maya C# plugins on GitHub.

• ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards: Maya .Net Wizards for Visual Studio

It couldn’t build the project template without WinRAR, but I arranged that anyone can build it if you have Visual Studio. And it supports Visual Studio project tags.

• https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards/pull/5
• https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards/pull/6

Steps

1. Open Maya plug-in Wizards.sln with Visual Studio 2019. then build it.
   The following files will be generated in Output directory:
   • Maya CSharp plug-in.zip
   • Maya CSharp Command With Undo.zip
   • Maya CSharp Command.zip
   • Maya CSharp Node.zip
2. Copy generated files.
   • Maya CSharp plug-in.zip
     • %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
   • Maya CSharp Command With Undo.zip, Maya CSharp Command.zip, Maya CSharp Node.zip
     • %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ItemTemplates
3. Creat a new project with Visual Studio 2019.

References

1. ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards: Maya .Net Wizards for Visual Studio
2. Replace WinRAR to PowerShell by hiroakit · Pull Request #5 · ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards
3. Add tag to project template by hiroakit · Pull Request #6 · ADN-DevTech/Maya-Net-Wizards