1 Reply by charlesroper

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Re: Developing add-ins

Is it possible to develop add-ins for Recorder using any of the free Visual Studio Express tools available here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Is there any documentation available for developing add-ins? A simple introductory tutorial and some downloadable source code (the source code to the existing add-ins would be good) would be very useful resources indeed.

Charles

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2 Reply by johnvanbreda

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Re: Developing add-ins

It should be possible, although .Net tools would need to use COM interop in order to access the COM interfaces that Recorder uses. At Dorset we have always used Delphi, since there is so much Recorder code that we can re-use, but any language that can support COM should work. We did originally test that addins would work from Visual Basic 6 as well.
There is a document which describes the COM interfaces though not how to implement them from a .Net language at the moment.

John van Breda
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