noob question - writing a plugin in VB

[ghackett]

Hi guys, I know that C# is the preferred language for mediaportal, but I am, by trade, an ASP.NET Webb App programmer, and I work completely in VB. I'm trying to write my first plugin in VB mainly because I already have a bunch of code I want to use in it and I dont want to have to port it all over to C#. Anyway, I'm going over your "My First Plugin tutorial and encountering a problem. Can anyone with some VB experience help me out? I think that once I get past this hump, I can finish the rest on my own.

I ported the beginning of the OurPlugin code over to VB, but I'm having probles impletemnting some of the (all of the) functions without the override tag. VS is telling me that I need to implement the Overrideable functions Description(), Author(), etc... in order to implement ISetupForm, but I have implemented those classes. When I add the Overrides tag to any of those classes though, I get an error saying that there is no class to override.

here is my code (it currently does nothing)

Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports MediaPortal.GUI.Library

Namespace MyRandomVideo

    Public Class RandomVideo
        Inherits GUIWindow
        Implements ISetupForm

        Public Sub New()

        End Sub

#Region "ISetupForm Members"

        Public Function PluginName() As String
            Return "My Random Video"
        End Function

        Public Function Description() As String
            Return "Play Random Videos From Selected Folders"
        End Function

        Public Function Author() As String
            Return "GHackett"
        End Function

        Public Sub ShowPlugin()
            MessageBox.Show(Application.StartupPath)
        End Sub

        Public Function CanEnable() As Boolean
            Return True
        End Function

        Public Function GetWindowId() As Integer
            Return 5678
        End Function

        Public Function DefaultEnabled() As Boolean
            Return True
        End Function

        Public Function HasSetup() As Boolean
            Return True
        End Function

        Public Function GetHome(ByRef strButtonText As String, ByRef strButtonImage As String, ByRef strButtonImageFocus As String, ByRef strPictureImage As String) As Boolean
            strButtonText = PluginName()
            strButtonImage = String.Empty
            strButtonImageFocus = String.Empty
            strPictureImage = String.Empty
            Return True
        End Function

        Public Overrides Property GetID() As Integer
            Get
                Return 5678
            End Get
            Set(ByVal Value As Integer)

            End Set
        End Property

        Public Overrides Function Init() As Boolean
            Return Load(GUIGraphicsContext.Skin + "\MyRandomVideo.xml")
        End Function

#End Region


    End Class
End Namespace

VS 2003 puts a squggly blue line underneath ISetupForm at the top and gives me laundry list of errors when i try to compile telling me that I dont implement the proper functions. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. I would use C# but VB is just so much easier to write. DAMN M$

[ghackett]

Sorry to waste your time guys, just found source for a VB plugin

thanks

[weekendowel]

Originally Posted by ghackett

Sorry to waste your time guys, just found source for a VB plugin

thanks

Could you please tell everyone else where to find that source

[ghackett]

Sure. I looked a couple threads down in this forum and someone was asking for a VB plugin and the were pointed here
http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.so...content+plugin