Little help getting started. : Developer's Corner

I'm really new to the VB world. I've read a few books but never had a version of VB to actually get some hands on experience until now.

I just recieved a full version of Visual Studio .NET, and I wanted to view the projects of existing plugins just to look around and get a better understanding. I've tried to open the projects for the chatlogger, the DAoC map plugin, and the blank VB plugin template. All of these we built with VB6, so VB .NET attempts to "upgrade" them.
VB crashes when it is 'Loading Type Library DAOCService' for he map and chatlogger plugins. Anyone know how to successfully convert these projects so I can view them?

When 'upgrading' the blank plugin project, VB fails becuase it can't 'load a referenced component: msderun.dll'. Is this dll part of a larger library I need to install? I've found places on the web to download the dll, but wasn't sure if this was just a small portion of a larger problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've got an idea of a plugin that I'd like to build while truely learning VB. Thanks

I have not yet tried to convert a vb6 project to vb.net. So, I cant help ya there yet until I give that a try.

Tried to upgrade the VBControlsDemo to VS .net 2003, got it to compile eventualy but then there was an error when trying to install it into XUnleashed, the DLL wouldnt register. And there are options in VB6 that I could not find in the new visual basic. So I ended up tracking down an old version of VB6 and am working on that. I got my plugin compiled and the names and GUID's changed to new ones.

If you get it to upgrade properly and still install please post your source..

When you upgrade after getting the MSDERUN.DLL there will be an error in the initilization method, just change XUnleashedGUI.IXUPluginHelper (line 56 i think) to XUnleashedGUI.XUPluginHelper and it will compile, but the dll wont register in XUnleashed very discouraging. Anyways Good luck.

Thanks Sulfuric. I had made the XUnleashedGUI.IXUPluginHelper change that you originally mentioned in an earlier post, and have been stuck with the same problem of the DLL not registering when I attempt the install.

Seeing that this was my first time playing with a plugin, and I don't have VB6 to test to how its supposed to work, I wasn't sure if I was just doing something wrong. Thanks for at least assuring me that I was doing the right stuff.

I'll continue with VB .NET (since that is all I have) and post if I make any progress.