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I compiled the .NET plugin projects and included them in a setup project, but when I try to compile the setup it never finishes. See attached to see where it stops. If I remove the .NET step, the project compiles fine.

Dear Munderhill,

for sure it exist a problem with you plugin code ...and without the code it's quite difficult to say where is the problem.
Other user posted some samples on the dedicated "Plug-In Development" forum.
For example; https://www.installaware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10598&hilit=sample

PLEASE NOTE!
This topic has been moved to the "Plug-In Development" forum.

Regards

Francesco,

This is YOUR sample code, not mine.

Dear Munderhill,

I missed the fact that you just compiled the "DesignTime C# Plug-In" generated by the IA Plug-in Wizard.

The Visual Studio project created by the wizard ONLY contains the skeleton declarations of the required DLL Export.
For what concerns the generated .Net Bridge Plug-in code, there are some Message-Boxes placed within the exported methods.

These are only intended to notify the developer when an exported "design-time/Runtime-time" FUNCTION gets effectively called.

At any rate, did you have a look at the generated C# code?

The Message-Box you posted gets displayed each time the "CompileTimeBuild" Export Method gets invoked. Such Message-Box is EXCLUSIVELY there FOR TEST PURPOSE and this is used to illustrate which PARAMETERS are involved with the function call.

For more details, please refer to the "Plug-in Authoring guide" included with the IA documentation.

Hope this helps you.

Regards

Francesco,

Are you saying that the dialogs should be removed in order to compile the project? Do you have an example of a .NET plugin that does allow the setup project to be compiled successfully?

Mike

Dear Mike,

the project gets compiled correctly regardless of the presence on those Message Dialogs. These are just "Message-Boxes" and they may be present with the code if required.

In this specific case, those dialogs are there just for Learning purpose and with the intention, to provide the developers a better understanding on how the various exported plug-in methods interact with the InstallAware IDE.

That said, the Plug-in Wizard only creates the project/files necessary to start the Plug-in development. Then it's the developer that has to write all the necessary code...and this depends on what the plug-in will have to do in reality.

For a working sample, you may refer to the link I posted previously.

Hope this helps you.

Regards