Plugin for application

Hi,

I'm working on an application that i want to allow to add some features later with plugins.

Its an client - server application, for the server i allready figured out to use plugins without restarting or changing anything to the server application.

For the clients it's little harder cause it also needs a graphic interface for the client.

Now the client application uses a tabcontrol for filling in the requested data.

The plugin should be able to add an extra tabpage to the tabcontrol with the new form in it.

Greets Nightmare

Since there is no question here , click here .http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ghlight=plugin

Yes read that post. Also, adding Tabs to a tabcontrol is very easy. I am doing the same thing currently. Make sure all plugins hav a standard Initilization function that accepts a TabControl as a ByRef parameter. Then when you load the plugin, just run the function and pass your forms Tabcontrol to it, and the person who rights the plugin can use that instance to add Tabpages.

tnx a lot.

Sounds easy, lets hope its easy to.

For the server sided plugins i made interface with functions for plugin, so its only filling in the code.
Guest that should work for the tab to then.

Greets Nightmare

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For the server sided plugins i made interface with functions for plugin, so its only filling in the code.

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Yes. Exactly. Just add a function to your interface declaration that accepts ByRef TabControl as a param.