Creating Plugins

[steve65]

I have created a program that does various functions. I would like to now separate these functions and the dialog controls associated with them into plugins. This way I can give the end user just the plugins that they need. Below is the process that I was going to try:

1. Move all of the dialog controls and procedures associated with this function into a DLL.

2. Modify the main program so that it looks in the plugin directory for any functions and then add the dialog controls to the main dialog.

Is this the correct way of going about this? Do you have any helpful words of advice before I embark on this?

[gaffa]

Try this post (yeah, it's one of mine - I had a couple of long discussions about creating a plugin model a while ago, and while I'm bored - hence clicking you sig link - I'm not that bored as to want to write it all out again )

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ghlight=plugin

I'm more than happy to chat about expanding the plugin model out - since I wrote that sample project, I've redeveloped to the model substantially to support dynamic form loading and inter-plugin communication.

- gaffa

[gaffa]

I didn't realise how old this post was until I looked at the date... whoops....

- gaffa