How to start writing your own plugin part 1 available (2 Viewers)

[charli181]

I will look into this and update the wiki. We are currently trying to resolve the wiki navigation nightmare. Will post back once it has been resolved.

here is the proper page for now MediaPortal1 Development/PluginDevelopersGuide - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

All the development requirements can be found here on the wiki.

MediaPortal1 Development - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation. They have been updated

Why is the plugin development documentation hidden so well? Its like they don;t want me to write one.

MEDIAPORTAL - free MediaCenter HTPC Software -> I don;t have permissions

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/PluginDevelopersGuide -> empty page

https://www.team-mediaportal.com/Plug...inTutorial.doc -> dead link

https://www.team-mediaportal.com/Plug.../OurPlugin.zip -> dead link

MEDIAPORTAL - free MediaCenter HTPC Software - HTTP Error 404 -> dead link

WTF, really I must be missing something here.

Can I ask where you fond all these links to see if we can adjust them? - Don't worry read first page of this thread....

 

[marcelgl]

Hi,

I just started to try to make a plugin but encountered some problem. Since I`m new to visual C# I think the fastest way is to ask here.

I added core.dll to the references, when I clock on core.dll I can see the namespace Mediaportal in the object browser.

At the top of my file I have the following : using Mediaportal.GUI.Library;

When building I get the error message that the namespace Mediaportal is not found.

Am I overlooking something ?

Regards,

Marcel

 

[jsimmons]

Ummm, is it me, or is the wiki documentation for writing plugins lagging far behind the realities of the current organization of the source code? I'd really like to write a couple of plugins (for v1.n), but the documentation appears to be out of date.

 

[Dragy]

Yes, I ran into the same problem..

 

[erichzann]

Hi All,

I would be grateful if someone could help.

I have been using the guide here:

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...s/Plugin_Developer's_Guide/1_Develop_a_Plugin


However, following the steps through to compiling and then testing the plugin, I can't get the plugin to show up in the MP Config.

Can someone let me know what the changes are to creating plugins which are not captured on this wiki page so that I can get the test plugin working.

Thanks

 

[Edalex]

You should add this to AssemblyInfo.cs:

using MediaPortal.Common.Utils;
[assembly: CompatibleVersion("1.1.6.27644")]

 

[erichzann]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Yep, I had already done that.

If I hadn't I assumed it would just be listed as an incompatible plugin?

 

[Edalex]

Yeah.
Otherwise you could do step-by-step debugging or at least search exceptions in logs.
Also please check that your project is set to .Net 3.5

 

[kiwijunglist]

@erichzann @Edalex feel free to add anything important to the wiki. If you feel daunted you can always add it as a comment in the comments section of the wiki. It might help others having the same issues, or save someone else a lot of time

 

[erichzann]

Thanks. Yep, using .Net 3.5

The MP Logs gave me the following:

PluginsNew: C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\windows\Test Plugin.dll has a bad image format