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Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2001 Posts: 2

I'm trying to port a ZMud plugin written in VB6 to C#.NET. I've setup a reference to zmud.exe in my References folder and noticed that Visual Studio .NET 2003 creates an Interop.Zmud.dll file.

I'm able to implement the IzMudPlugin ie, using C# notation of

public class ZMudLinkDLL : IzMUDPlugin

and I have implemented all of the methods such that it compiles in Visual Studio. Including the Register method as

public void Register(ref string Name
, ref string Company
, ref string Regcode
, ref string Description
, ref string Version
, ref string HelpFile
, ref bool LoadDef)
{
Name = "Test Plugin";
Company = "Zugg Software";
Regcode = "123456789012";
Description = "Test";
HelpFile = "";
LoadDef = true;
}

However when I try to reference the DLL in ZMud, it says it is not a valid plugin. Any suggestions or has anyone created a plugin with C#.NET that I could use as reference?

Thanks in advance.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 873 Location: USA

You should register for the Developer's Forum.

I haven't tried to use .NET for a plugin, but I did have a similar problem with C++ under VS6. The plugin was valid and would work, but zMud's plugin manager had trouble recognizing it as valid. For details, bgunther gave the most detailed writeup a few years ago in the dev forum if you want to do a search.

Two things to try:
1) Use your plugin from another program- script, anything, just to see if the system can create and use it as a COM object.
2) If (1) works, then try registering the plugin by hand in your registry.

There's a family of keys in the registry under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software, and in the following example I have a plugin named Test: