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I just made a new plugin in vb.net and i cant get it to install on any other computer but mine. all other computers will not recognize it. ive tried using the installer.... and doing it manually, but i cant get either to work. What am i doing wrong? can some1 plz help me

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Originally posted by daniel142005
I just made a new plugin in vb.net and i cant get it to install on any other computer but mine. all other computers will not recognize it. ive tried using the installer.... and doing it manually, but i cant get either to work. What am i doing wrong? can some1 plz help me

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do your friends have the VB.NET Runtimes/Dlls installed?

i didnt give it to my friends to test, i have 2 computers, and i tried sending the dll unregistered to the other computer and registering it on that computer.... and it still didnt work. ( i have the .net redistribution v2 beta installed on that computer )

Make sure you're registering it in the correct folder. Also, ensure you're using regasm, not regsvr32.

i am using regasm, and it is in the correct folder, but it still wont recognize it, the information for the plugin is in the registry and it works just fine on my computer. Is there a way i could maybe convert it to c/c++ and make it work that way? (i dont know c/c++ but is there a program for it or somthing???) and i tried installing it with the plugin installer, but it doesnt even add the information to the registry.

here is the exact steps i have taken:
1. Shutdown Messenger
2. Added it to Registered Plugins, in the registry
3. Copied the DLL to the plugins directory
4. Registered the DLL in the plugin's directory with RegAsm
5. Loaded Messenger

Did i miss a step? or are they supposed to be in a different order???
because it still isnt detecting it.

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and i have a reature request for Messenger Plus, maybe an advanced plugin detection thing, that will notice its there and tell you whats missing, like if it needs to be registered, or if its not listed in the registered plugins.

for future reference, if you are using the messenger api, make sure they have the updated version of Windows Messenger , the person i was testing it with was using dialup at the time and never got around to downloading the update, so the messenger api didnt even exist... lol

WOW wait that can help me!

No messenger API you say, isn't that standard in MSN? Where to download it?

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Originally posted by J-Thread
WOW wait that can help me!

No messenger API you say, isn't that standard in MSN? Where to download it?

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You need to have Windows Messenger installed AND enabled (aka: do not use those crappy advisements of disabling Windows Messenger as this will break many things, incl. the API). See CookieRevised's reply to I am about to rip my hair out over MS Messanger

Hmmm, but on a standard windows 98 install... Windows messenger is installed isn't it? So that doesn't help me...

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Originally posted by J-Thread
Hmmm, but on a standard windows 98 install... Windows messenger is installed isn't it? So that doesn't help me...

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AFAIK, only on XP Windows Messenger is pre-installed. Then again, I don't have a fresh copy of 98 here.... Anyways, just check your program files folder for Windows Messenger to see if it is installed...