RS2010 .NET suspend regenerating while code running

[mpruna]

Hello everyone
I have a code that updates shapes and other parameters of a large number of members from an Excel spreadsheet.
While this is accomplished, member by member, periodically Revit runs a "regeneration"
which shows up at the bottom left cormner of the screen and which interrups any work I am tryng to do by popping up a warning windows as well.
Any way to disable that so that it only happens once at the end, after the code is done running?

[abe.buckingham]

I believe this blog post might be what you're looking for. You'll set the regeneration option to manual then call the regenerate method in the document after you've completed your changes.

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/...de-danger.html

[mpruna]

Thanks Abe, but , is this feature available to the 2010 API?
I tried:
[Transaction( TransactionMode.Automatic )]
[Regeneration( RegenerationOption.Manual )]

in my code and it wasn't recognized. Is there something I need to add to the namespace?

[abe.buckingham]

I didn't see the Document.regenerate() method in the 2010 documentation, so it appears it's only available in 2011 by these means. I've not used the 2010 API so if their is an alternative way of doing this I'm not familiar with it.

[Danny Polkinhorn]

For 2010 (and prior) you need the SuspendUpdating method. You'll also want the Web Update 2 if you don't already have it as there were some enhancements to it in that update.

HTH,

[mpruna]

thanks Danny, will try that!