This documentation describes how to develop your own plug-ins. It is organized under the following headings:
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What are Natural Studio Plug-ins? | General information on the plug-ins that can be developed in order to extend Natural Studio functionality. |
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Quick Start | Prerequisites for developing plug-ins. How to create a minimal plug-in. How to install and activate the minimal plug-in. How to extend the generated code of the minimal plug-in with your own code. How to deactivate and uninstall the minimal plug-in. |
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Plug-in Interfaces | How Natural Studio interacts with a plug-in. |
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Natural Studio Interfaces | How a plug-in interacts with Natural Studio. |
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Developing Plug-ins | How to use remote debugging with a plug-in and how to deploy a plug-in to another machine. Some hints on how to develop plug-ins in languages that allow creating ActiveX components. |
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Plug-in Example | How to use the plug-in example. Information on the library which contains the source code of the plug-in example. |
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Interface Reference | Descriptions of all interfaces (plug-in interfaces and Natural Studio interfaces) in alphabetical order. |
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DTDs | Because of their length the DTDs used in several Natural Studio interfaces are provided separately and are listed in this part. |
See also Plug-in Manager in the documentation Using Natural Studio.
