I have created a new plugin, it works as .dll but I am having a problem packaging it into a .plgx because it uses a .dll in another project, and apparently the .plgx build doesn't like this. The development page says "reorganize your project to use custom assembly references instead". How does one do this?
I have tried re-structuring by putting the ref'd project as a sub-project under the calling project and creating a standard reference to it (in VS2015), but the reference is not working at run-time as the actual path is used, rather than the one to the temp directory.
How should I reference the sub-project correctly?
TIA
John
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I found out that the reason I could not build the .plgx when using a copy of the other .DLL in the project main directory was because I had some C# v6 constructs (exception filters) while the Keepass plgx compiler tool only goes up to C# v5.
I also had success with David's alternative tool.
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I have created a new plugin, it works as .dll but I am having a problem packaging it into a .plgx because it uses a .dll in another project, and apparently the .plgx build doesn't like this. The development page says "reorganize your project to use custom assembly references instead". How does one do this?
I have tried re-structuring by putting the ref'd project as a sub-project under the calling project and creating a standard reference to it (in VS2015), but the reference is not working at run-time as the actual path is used, rather than the one to the temp directory.
How should I reference the sub-project correctly?
TIA
John
Referencing other projects directly isn't supported for PLGX files.
However, you can compile the other project to a DLL file, copy the DLL file into your main project's folder and add a reference to the DLL.
Best regards,
Dominik
I made a plgx tool that can handle this sort of thing. It is availible on nuget. A .csproj that uses it is here.
Thanks to both for your replies. I'll give that plgx tool a look, David.
John
I found out that the reason I could not build the .plgx when using a copy of the other .DLL in the project main directory was because I had some C# v6 constructs (exception filters) while the Keepass plgx compiler tool only goes up to C# v5.
I also had success with David's alternative tool.