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.