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Newbie Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Russia

Will plugins support .NET technology?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Perhaps you will get more response in the Developer's Forum.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Russia

I have no access to Developers forum

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Just fill out the application. Once you fill it out, access is automatic.

Kjata

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

As I remember, access wasn't automatic for the Developer's forum when I filled it out. If I recall correctly, it actually took a day or so. This is in contrast to the beta forum which does allow instant access after the application. Maybe times have changed since then. If not, then expect a small delay while your application is processed.

- Charbal

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

As I remember, access wasn't automatic for the Developer's forum when I filled it out. If I recall correctly, it actually took a day or so. This is in contrast to the beta forum which does allow instant access after the application. Maybe times have changed since then. If not, then expect a small delay while your application is processed.

- Charbal

Nope, in fact, I think you need to provide Zugg with a reason for needing access to Developers Forum (at least that was the impression I got from the page that loaded).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:31 am

I'll take a stab at an answer and say 'no' (to be on the safe side :)

As far as Im aware .NET produces only byte-code and not real DLLs/executables, so I'd guess that Zugg would need to build in support.

Of course, I could be wrong..

Lady C.

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Note: I haven't done much programming in .NET yet so take what I say with a grain of salt

I believe this would be possible (after all, it makes little sense for Microsoft to spend years on OLE/COM/DCOM/COM+ and then not support it in .NET, requiring a rewrite of much software). MSDN documentation seems to back me up on this, most poignantly here where the interop mechanism is detailed (providing a bridge between the managed .NET assembly and the unmanaged code necessary for COM to work). That article or related ones in MSDN may be what you're looking for.

Any further discussion of this should go to the Developer's Forum, however.

- Charbal

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 39

I don't think it's possible, because I'm pretty sure that Zmud needs to call exported procedures on the DLL, and AFAIK .NET cannot produce DLLs with exported procedures. However, C++ .NET might be the exception.

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

This'll be my last post on the topic here, I promise :P

Perhaps DLLs with arbitrary exported procedures can't be made, but a COM Automation DLL component only exports 4 things with predetermined names and functionality: DllCanUnloadNow, DllGetClassObject, DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer.

As near as I can tell, this capability _is_ present in .NET. COM wrappers for .NET code can be generated in various ways, and regasm appears to be one of these.

Okay, I'm going to stop posting to this thread and redirect everyone to the Developer's Forum. Unless someone claims that the square root of 2 is rational... then I'd be forced to rebuff the claim :P

- Charbal

Wanderer Joined: 18 Dec 2000 Posts: 65 Location: Germany

I successfully compiled a sample plugin for zmud using vc++ .net but it was not using COM but the old plugin format.

COM should be possible with some kind of wrapper but i never tried or did it

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