So I’ve read through your first tutorial on Plugin Architecure and this one as well, however one thing I am running into is on the HOST application when I write the line.

Dim NewPlugIn As PlugInInterface.IMyPlugIn = LoadPlugIn(String.Concat(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath, “\”, cboPlugIns.Text, “.dll”))

PluginInterface is not exposed to the Main App, how to you get the main app to recognize this? The error I get is “Type PluginInterface is not Defined”

I grasp everything else pretty much however this is throwing me for a loop. Thank you

Question:

Suppose I have finished creating a usercontrol that inherits a the textbox, and then add a property name tablename. When we will use this control we can see a new property named tablename in the property window, right? My question is how to make this property I add in the control as searchable, or like when we select the tablename property in the property window it will give a ellipse button or maybe a dropdown that enables us to select the list of tables we have created in the database?

Couple issues I ran into running it:
- When loading the solution, need to reset the references to the different projects.
- When running, need to move copies of the plugin DLL’s into the PluginDemo\Output folder, which is where the program is looking for them (instead of the \bin directories of the individual projects).

Nothing big, since anyone developing plug-ins should be skilled enough to figure this out, but thought it was worth mentioning. :)