I'm glad, you were able to solve the problem.
Should you need help, just let me know. It's a long time ago, since I wrote the plug-in, but I'm still there to help out, if required.

The files are now integrated into IA setup, as far as I know.
The files linked in this thread are outdated and no longer available.

As the original author of those plug-ins I'm still willing to help, if you need anything, drop me a mail or ask here.

Dear bokkie, the plugin fails with an error when I drag it onto the MSIcode. What exactly is the error message? Is your net plug-in called at all, or does the bridge fails prior to loading the net assembly? Would it be possible for you to send me the source code of you design time plug-in? or at lea...

In any case, if you have still problems, just post here and I or Francesco will be glad to help.

1. I generated another plugin-based project. I looked at the GUIDs in the generated code. One of them was different and where it differed it was literally by one character at the end of the GUID. I can be forgiven for being a little suspicious but if you generate two GUIDs using the utility that VS...

To me, the Bridge should be transparent and of no concern to the IA end user. The IA end user should just need to specify the c# Dll that he wants to access, the method he wants to call in that DLL and then have the result returned to IA and placed into an IA variable. This is a good idea. But it i...

Thanks for this post as it has clarified a number of issues I had with this whole thing. As I now know, .Net Bridge is not a plug-in at all but a seemingly very useful tool enabling C# developers to now design their own plug-ins. I would say yes. But it is so far a plug-in, asa it was build based o...

2. After the build, I took a look in the Release -> Uncompressed -> data -> OFFLINE folder. There is only one folder DesignTime_NetBridge.dll and it's empty. This seems to suggest to me there is something missing? Yes there is something missing. But the files your are looking for will not be copied...

Hi all, I will try to help you out. Some time passed since I last worked on it, so please be patient with me :) As already mentioned, the net bridge plug-in functionality is quite similar to win32 plug-ins written in C++ plug ins or delphi. There is nothing really complex about, in general it acts a...

Please have a look at the parameters send to this procedure:

Variables: The names and values of variables used in the setup script
State: State of plug-in controls, as chosen during compile time


I think this is what you are looking for.

do not check if the newstate variable is null, in fact it shall never be.... the engine which loads net assemblies into will send an empty but not null string.

just test for displaydialog

Please let me know how it went.
and keep in mind that:
There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question …… Only Stupid Answers.

From the IA Help The RunTimeExecute function will always be called twice: 1) The first call of the function will always have the NewVariables parameter set to NULL. The function should perform its installation action, perpare the NewVariables string, and store it in a buffer. The function should ret...

This function is called just once. Anyway, it would be illogical, to call it twice and to execute the installation twice, right? as for the test variable, my net bridge past anything back to IA, what IA do with it I can not tell. Please run your plug-in in my test tool, in the log memo on the bottom...

I'm always glad to be of some help.
But please post the code as a new post, otherwise I will not be notified about your reply and will not look into this topic until I got a email notification