PM plugin / PluginInstallPath is empty

dansam12 — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:33:14 GMT

We wrote a plugin and want to store some files under the same directory.

While executing the

public partial class MyPluginPane : UserControl
{

...........

public MyPluginPane(IPluginCommunicationsInterface comms)
{
m_comms = comms;

...

myInfo.Text = m_comms.PluginInstallPath;

.....

it looks like the PluginInstallPath is always empty. Other properties such as .PluginAssemblyName, .ConnectedToPowerMILL are correctly populated

any idea?

Re: PM plugin / PluginInstallPath is empty

dansam12 — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:47:01 GMT

just to add more info, the plugin was registered using the following:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\regasm.exe <pluginname>.dll /register /codebase

and I can see the CLSID correctly stored.

in the PluginFrameworkBase.cs the utility function code looks like this:

.......

// Get the path to the dll
string dll_path = (string)Registry.GetValue(
@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{" + guid_string + @"}\InprocServer32",
"CodeBase",
"");

...

and this matches exactly the entry in my registry, but somehow an empty value is being returned....

Something do to perhaps with 64 vs 32bits?

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