Plugins and NPVR. Where do we start?

[sub]

Another thing this translator seems to have done incorrectly is how it implements interfaces.

Where it writes:
Public Function GetSettingsPage() As SettingsPage

You need:
Public Function GetSettingsPage() As SettingsPage Implements IPluginConfiguration.GetSettingsPage

[sub]

Public Sub PluginCallback(source As Object, command As String, args As Object)

becomes

Public Sub PluginCallback(source As Object, command As String, args As Object) Implements IPluginCallback.PluginCallback

[sub]

Public Sub Notify(eventName As String, eventArg As Object)

becomes

Public Sub Notify(eventName As String, eventArg As Object) Implements IEventNotification.Notify

[sub]

Public Sub HandleButtonCommand(buttonName As String)

becomes

Public Sub HandleButtonCommand(buttonName As String) Implements UiButtonList.IUiButtonListCallback.HandleButtonCommand

...then it should compile.

[cbgifford]

[quote=sub]I'm not going to have much time today, but I'll try give pointers on a couple of these./QUOTE]

No worries, I am gone for the holidays this afternoon. I'll have my laptop with me but I am not going to have to much time to to devote to this now until after the new year. Happy holidays to you and yours or as I like to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[cbgifford]

Made the changes and resolved the errors, it compiled and ran with no issues within NPVR. I've attached it if anyone else wants it. Thanks for the pointers!

[wayloncovil]

Do you have a copy of the most recent sample development files? My C# skills are very poor but I'd like to load them in Visual Studio and see if I can make heads or tails out of the code.
I want to try my hand at making a guide search plug-in. Would I need to understand how the database functions in order to do something like that?
Thanks!

[sub]

The most relevent example plugin is here:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post482912

[mandai]

Hi I am trying to compile the test3 example plugin but I get errors that namespaces NUtility.Base and NUtility.Controls do not exist.

Also I get lots of errors when NUtility.dll is referenced like Warning The primary reference "NUtility" could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly "System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" which could not be resolved in the currently targeted framework. ".NETFramework,Version=v4.0". To resolve this problem, either remove the reference "NUtility" or retarget your application to a framework version which contains "System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a".
I am using the target .Net framework 4.0. Is there some setting which needs to be changed? I am using Visual Studio 2017

[mvallevand]

Are you writing plugin for v4? You can't create plugins for v5 at this point.

Martin