Netload and plugin installation
NETLOAD command not displaying anything could be anything, good or bad. If it is AutoCAD security issue (i.e. loaded from a location that is not trusted folder), AutoCAD should prompts its security warning PRIOR to the dll is loaded. If your user obtained your DLL via the Internet (downlaoded from somewhere, or you emailed to them), then Windows will automatically flag the downloaded the DLL (or any executable file, for that matter) as unsafe. If loaded into AutoCAD, AutoCAD will generate error message of failed loading. So the DLL obtained via the Internet needs to be unlocked before use.
Since you get nothing displayed after NETLOAD command, it is likely your code error, if your DLL implemented IExtensionApplication and does something bad in Initialize() implementation. Since you did not provide any details about your code and/or how users get it "installed", I stop guessing here.
You may not be seeing any error message written to the command line if a document is not active. Try putting the error trap in the OnIdle event, like below.
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using AcAp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
using System;
// This line is not mandatory, but improves loading performances
[assembly: ExtensionApplication(typeof(EJ_.MyPlugin))]
namespace EJ_
{
public class MyPlugin : IExtensionApplication
{
void IExtensionApplication.Initialize()
{
AcAp.Idle += OnIdle;
}
void IExtensionApplication.Terminate()
{
// Do plug-in application clean up here
}
private void OnIdle(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var doc = AcAp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
if (doc != null)
{
Application.Idle -= OnIdle;
try
{
doc.Editor.WriteMessage("\nEJ_PageSetupImport loaded.\n");
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
doc.Editor.WriteMessage($"\nInitilization error: {ex.Message}");
doc.Editor.WriteMessage($"\nStack Trace: {ex.StackTrace}");
}
}
}
}
}
Ed
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