Hi everyone,

 

I just thought I would spin up a new forum thread to show off what myself and @Rich have been working on over the past couple of weeks. To help out with developers who would like to get their foot in the door when it comes to writing new LSPDFR callouts, we thought it would be a good idea to write some code for you to cross-reference when writing your own callouts. 

 

Requirements 

You will need the following to get started:

 

• Visual Studio (or another IDE) installed.
• Basic knowledge of the C# language - remember, an LSPDFR callout plugin should not be your first C# project. You should learn C# beforehand.

 

Source:

You can view and download the source code: https://github.com/thatmaxplayle/LSPDFRBasePlugin

 

Contributions:

If you're a more experienced developer, please feel free to chip in and drop me a message on Discord (@thatmaxplayle#8811) or via LCPDFR.com to be added to the contributors list. Alternatively, you can just fork the project and submit a PR with your changes. 🙂

 

License:

Make sure to follow the terms of the MIT license which is outlined on the GitHub page. 

 

 

You can use this topic if you're having trouble, of it you have any questions.

If you have a Github account, I'd like to encourage you to create Issues for features you'd like to see added to the framework (if you do not know how to create them yourself).

Is the free Visual Studio Community version sufficient for doing this kind of work? It's been a few years since I've written C++; would you say C# is close enough to C++ that it wouldn't be starting from scratch to get up to speed sufficient to write callouts? Thanks for starting this.

4 hours ago, SlimInAR said:

Is the free Visual Studio Community version sufficient for doing this kind of work? It's been a few years since I've written C++; would you say C# is close enough to C++ that it wouldn't be starting from scratch to get up to speed sufficient to write callouts? Thanks for starting this.

You won't be starting from scratch, but since you've said it's been a few years and the fact that there are differences between the two languages, you will probably spend some time getting up to speed.

 

Edit:  Also, regarding your IDE question, yes.

Edited January 14, 20224 yr by Rich

On 9/14/2023 at 9:11 PM, OptimusPrime23 said:

Why VS Code so popular? For example, I use Sublime Text.

Sublime Text?
You need a compiler so what is that?
Further -It was MSVS-Community-version, that was vindicated not Visual-code. The obvious reason for choosing MSVS-Community is that the tutorials on this site, relates to MSVS-Community.
 

On 9/14/2023 at 8:11 PM, OptimusPrime23 said:

Why VS Code so popular? For example, I use Sublime Text.

 

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are two different products. You shouldn't use Visual Studio Code in for developing C# projects - whilst it is definitely possible, it's a massive headache. Trust me - you'll want to go with the Community Edition of Visual Studio which you can obtain for free at https://visualstudio.com

 

Sublime Text, if I recall correctly, is just a text editor. You're not going to get very far with that. Visual Studio Code isn't all that dissimilar, it just has a lot of plugins/integrations which empower it to become more than just Notepad.