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HI all

I have been seraching the forums and so far have not found the answers i seek, so im hoping some of you will know

I have started work on a mod for a skin that I have been using and all is going well, I have created an editor in VB .NET which works great.

However I would like to convert this into a plugin for mediaportal, at the moment this is just a stand along applcation but i would like to intergrate this into the plugin section of MP when the skin gets installed.

i have read the manual here however it only discribes how to write the plugin in C#, now I have never written anything in C# before and im a bit confused as to how to convert so im the statments in the manul to vb .net.

If i can help it i would realy like to leave it in vb .net as the editor is working great at the moment and not having done C# before it would take a long time to convert it.

If anyone has any experience in writing a plugin for MP in VB .net could you please point me in the right direction.

and one more quick thing, the plugin saves some settings and things to and from text files and also requires some extra xml files and things for it to work. i just wanted to check if there is a standard place to put somthing like this inside the MP directory or if it would be better off in the skin directory itself.

thanks all!

<blockquote data-quote="kyleh0000" data-source="post: 509587" data-attributes="member: 91207">HI allI have been seraching the forums and so far have not found the answers i seek, so im hoping some of you will know <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I have started work on a mod for a skin that I have been using and all is going well, I have created an editor in VB .NET which works great.However I would like to convert this into a plugin for mediaportal, at the moment this is just a stand along applcation but i would like to intergrate this into the plugin section of MP when the skin gets installed.i have read the manual <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/MediaPortal1_Development/PluginDevelopersGuide" target="_blank">here</a> however it only discribes how to write the plugin in C#, now I have never written anything in C# before and im a bit confused as to how to convert so im the statments in the manul to vb .net.If i can help it i would realy like to leave it in vb .net as the editor is working great at the moment and not having done C# before it would take a long time to convert it.If anyone has any experience in writing a plugin for MP in VB .net could you please point me in the right direction.and one more quick thing, the plugin saves some settings and things to and from text files and also requires some extra xml files and things for it to work. i just wanted to check if there is a standard place to put somthing like this inside the MP directory or if it would be better off in the skin directory itself.thanks all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kyleh0000, post: 509587, member: 91207"] HI all I have been seraching the forums and so far have not found the answers i seek, so im hoping some of you will know :) I have started work on a mod for a skin that I have been using and all is going well, I have created an editor in VB .NET which works great. However I would like to convert this into a plugin for mediaportal, at the moment this is just a stand along applcation but i would like to intergrate this into the plugin section of MP when the skin gets installed. i have read the manual [URL="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/MediaPortal1_Development/PluginDevelopersGuide"]here[/URL] however it only discribes how to write the plugin in C#, now I have never written anything in C# before and im a bit confused as to how to convert so im the statments in the manul to vb .net. If i can help it i would realy like to leave it in vb .net as the editor is working great at the moment and not having done C# before it would take a long time to convert it. If anyone has any experience in writing a plugin for MP in VB .net could you please point me in the right direction. and one more quick thing, the plugin saves some settings and things to and from text files and also requires some extra xml files and things for it to work. i just wanted to check if there is a standard place to put somthing like this inside the MP directory or if it would be better off in the skin directory itself. thanks all! [/QUOTE]