Plugin for Max 2026 does not load

[martinsall6E2DS]

Hey!

3ds Max 2026 does not load my WPF .Net8 Plugin and I cant find any errors or warnings reported/logged.

The Plugin simply does not show up in the Plug-in Manager and I would appreciate some pointers.

I placed the built plugin under D:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2026\bin\assemblies.

I have attached the project.

[MartinBeh]

I don't know about dotNet but shouldn't plugins be placed into one of the plugin folders? 

Just for test, try placing it in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2026\stdplugs and restart 3ds Max. 

[martinsall6E2DS]

 I gave this a try, but the dll unfortunately still did not show up in the plug-in manager.

[A娘 · Accepted solution]

c#  plugin won't show in plugin manager 

you can create a class of your dll , if it not throw an exception , means it has been loaded

[lauri_barnhart]

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