Extending Natural Studio with Plug-ins

This documentation describes how to develop your own plug-ins. It is organized under the following headings:

What are Natural Studio Plug-ins? General information on the plug-ins that can be developed in order to extend Natural Studio functionality.
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.
Plug-in Interfaces How Natural Studio interacts with a plug-in.
Natural Studio Interfaces How a plug-in interacts with Natural Studio.
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.
Plug-in Example How to use the plug-in example. Information on the library which contains the source code of the plug-in example.
Interface Reference Descriptions of all interfaces (plug-in interfaces and Natural Studio interfaces) in alphabetical order.
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.