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Chaps,

I have had limited success building some of the plug-ins samples using VS.Net C++ 2008. It's not that the code wont compile but rather because VS.Net has deprecated some code and a few, seemingly correctable errors occurred elsewhere? So this leads me to think the VS.Net C++ 2008 is not necessarily the best compiler and builder to use.

What do you use for compiling and building plug-ins? Visual C++ 6? Service packs? etc...

Any version of any language which can create ordinary Win32 DLLs using the stdcall calling convention will work. The samples were built with Visual Studio 6.

That was my problem. Although .Net went through the process of converting the project there were a number of deprecated functions and two compilation errors which looked quite nasty. I think I will hunt for VC++6 in our MSDN disk box. Better perhaps to compile and build using the same tools as it was written with.

By the way: What's the story with Delphi these days as I believe you can write plug-ins with that? I almost get the impression that Delphi's light is much dimmer now seeing that VS.Net has conquered much of its traditional market. Is anyone writing plug-ins with Delphi?

That's unfortunate. Would anybody care to post an updated project collection for the modern line of VS tools? It's just a couple function exports...

Michael, I'd be happy to try and do that but not knowing how the internals of plug-ins work I'd probably be at a disadvantage. I did manage to convert the GenerateGuid plug-in to VS.Net 2009 C++ and that seemed to work ok at both compile time and when used in MSI code.

But that was a different beast to the eval.zip plug-in code I downloaded from another forum thread which is where the worst compilation errors announced themselves.