Plug-Ins

[Kasracer]

I was hopping to add plug-ins to my application.

I figure I could get it setup and everything to where someone can create a DLL and the program would execute there code.

However, if someone does not have VS .NET 2003, I would still like them to be able to make something...

How exactly could I incorporate a VB compiler so they could create there own plug-ins?

[Edneeis]

Your best bet is probably to have anyone without VS to use the commandline compiler since that is part of the .NET Framework and so its free. You could make some form of wrapper for it if you want or have them use a free IDE like ICSharp has: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by Edneeis
Your best bet is probably to have anyone without VS to use the commandline compiler since that is part of the .NET Framework and so its free. You could make some form of wrapper for it if you want or have them use a free IDE like ICSharp has: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

Yeah that's what I thought.

Maybe have a simple IDE or something so they can design things easier and then compile using the command line compiler.

I just thought maybe somenoe would have a better way to do it, but that is probably what I'll have to do.