Develope MMC plugins.

[Nordlund]

Hi.
Has anyone done a MMC (Microsoft Management Console) plugin? How did you do?

Has anyone done a application with "plugin" support? How did you do?

For example.
Take a base platform, with no menus. Perhaps a MDIForm.
This platform reads .dll in the same directory files when starting.
In every valid .dll file, there is a function declaring it is a plugin, and tells the callerapplication (in this case, the platform) which menuitems/functions the .dll has.

Then, when the platform has loaded the .dll files, every plugin's menuitems are loaded in the platform, and the user can choose them, and activate forms ans functions from the pluging.

Has anyone done that? Please tell me success stories... If there are any?

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[whosrdaddy]

I have!

MMC component :

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/delphi_7.htm

beware, this component is not complete, I did have to enhance his component further and took out a good number of bugs too. It is the only free MMC component I could find for delpi.

for plugins I use this component :

http://www.maxcomponents.net/download.html#PLUGINLOADER

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[whosrdaddy]

nordlund,
concerning the MMC thing :
if you want I can provide you the enhanced code of colin wilson's component. before you dive into MMC programming have a good at this M$ site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mmc/mmc/mmc_programmer_s_guide.asp

I can assist you (if you want), if you have problems with the component...

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[Nordlund]

Thanks för the help, whosrdaddy.

I'm going to build a Client/Server application, and want to isolate different parts of the application.

The end users are going to buy licenses for this plugins.

I just testing some different techniques to solve the plugin-thing, and I've decided that using .dll files is probably the best way. At least yet....

(Therefore I asked about LoadLibrary in another thread)
Thanks for the "loadlibrary"-solution...

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