Hi Tom Imhof,

You are not forced to use WPF, below you can find a code sample of a plugin migrated to Studio 2021 which has a view part in Windows Forms.

https://github.com/sdl/Sdl-Community/tree/master/CleanUpTasks

Kind regards,

Andrea Ghisa

Hello Andrea, 

I had a look at the CleanupTasks plugin and there I found that you initialize the view with this command:

var control = GetControl() as CleanUpSourceSettingsControl;

Is that correct?

Question: The interface in Studio 2021 is set to type IUIControl and not Control as the line above would suggest:

Accordingly, I construct it like this:

The plugin then compiles fine, but when I launch Studio 2021, I am getting:

If I change the code to this (resembling the line above "var control = GetControl() as CleanUpSourceSettingsControl;" in VB.net, i.e. using the Control interface and a Function (not a Protected override function), like this:

I am getting the same error when Studio 2021 is launched with the plugin:

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Many thanks in advance!

Tom

Hi Tom,

Is your VB control implementing IUIControl interface?

Kind regards,

Andrea

Hi Andrea, 

Many thanks - this was the hint I needed :) 

Starting from this:

I added this to my ViewControl:

Inherits UserControl
Implements IUIControl

This did the trick

Kind regards,

Tom

Hi Andrea, 

Many thanks - this was the hint I needed :) 

Starting from this:

I added this to my ViewControl:

Inherits UserControl
Implements IUIControl

This did the trick

Kind regards,

Tom