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  		   Posted 10/31/2004 12:58 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Is it possible to program plugins in C#?
 
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  		   Posted 10/31/2004 3:14 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The core of a Finale plug-in needs to be a regular Windows DLL with 6 functions whose entry points are not name-mangled (like using extern "C" in C++). I have not programmed in C#, so I cannot answer for sure. But given the use of managed code in C#, I doubt it.

Our plug-ins are programmed primarily in Visual Basic 6.0 (Dolet V1) and Java 1.4 (Dolet V2). They have a core C++ layer, plus a large interoperability layer to allow two-way access to the PDK from the memory-managed language. You could do the same thing for C#. You could probably even do the same thing for a scripting language like Python. Given the complexity of our plug-ins, this was worth the effort. For smaller plug-ins, it would probably be overkill - the effort to create the layer would be larger than the savings from writing in a memory-managed language.

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