From visual studio vb component to vb plugin

I have succesfully programmed few vb components and compiled them through visual studio. Since te number of them is growing, I would like to make them work as one compiled .dll and gh_assembly, not as single components but one plugin.

how to join them in visual studio? is there any workflow ?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 21, 2016 at 7:42am

Just keep adding classes to your project. There's no upper limit (or lower limit for that matter) of the number of GH_Component classes per GHA assembly. You can both add existing *.vb files to a project via the Solution Explorer panel, or you can add new empty files and paste your code into them.

Permalink Reply by Aleksander Dynarek on February 22, 2016 at 2:18am

Thanks! I figured it out. I thought that this is something different. And how to write/save/compile a library like this? http://spatialslur.com/code/

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 22, 2016 at 5:38am

Join GitHub. Download the source or fork it. Compile it into a dll, reference that dll in your project. When you distribute your project you must also distribute the spatialslur.dll.

Alternatively (not recommended though) you add the SpatialSlur *.cs files directly to your project, that way you don't end up with 2 dlls, but it makes updating SpatialSlur to newer versions a nightmare.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 22, 2016 at 5:39am

Oh, you can also download the dll directly from spatialslur.com, the compiled binary is provided.

Permalink Reply by Aleksander Dynarek on February 22, 2016 at 12:31pm

I ment how to do something like this by my own.

To be more specific- how to write my own library of classes/functions in visual studio and save in a way that it will be accesible in vb script component in gh interface (not in visual studio).

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on February 22, 2016 at 1:24pm