[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Ahhh.. Gary! You are the first! Can you believe it? Nobody has yet asked or even tried to write their own plugin except me. And the concept is really very easy.

A plugin is anything that can be displayed in an Internet Explorer Browser. Anything you can think of to be displayed in a webpage. So, if you have looked at any of my plugins, you can see a little of what you can do.

To make my plugins, I simply created a 'control' that can be placed on a webpage. Similar to a textbox, or button. But I just made my plugins have lots more stuff on them...

I used the VB6 UserDocuments project type to create my web control. But if you have Visual Studio.Net 2003 then you should have the ability to make a web control. Just find some simple .Net web control (or whatever they call it in .Net) app and look at how it works. Compile it, and open it in IE. When I compile my VB6 UserDocument apps, they create a .exe (or .dll depending on how you want it to work), and also a .vbd file. I just open IE, and Select File/Open and open that .vbd file, and IE displays the control for me. (If I do this while the project is running within VB6, I can actually step through the code as I click and test the control in IE, and debug it.) Test one of my plugins and you'll see what I mean.

If that program has a .ocx file, you should be able to add that as a control to your project, and then add that control to your web control's work area.

I have been meaning to upload my Bombsight Calculator VB6 project for users to look at, but just have not gotten around to it. Plus, nobody has had any interest it seems....

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to post any more questions. I would love to see you succeed in making a plugin in .Net, or any language.

WBK