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Hi everyone,

What I am doing in my application is I have a base app, then a bunch of
plug-in dll files. Well this gets confuseing to diferentiate between the
real plug-ins and the actual link libraries that are not to be used as
plugins (in reality they are both DLL files) is there anyway I could make
VS.NET compile my VB.NET DLL plug-in projects into a diffrent extension but
still be DLL files? (i dont feel like changeing tens of extensions by hand
each build) I'd like the extension to be something like .bdbPlugin instead
of .DLL for the plug-ins so i could also associate a file type with them and
give them custom icons with the file type association in windows... thanks!
Jul 21 '05 #1
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Hi,

Under project settings have a look at Linker, and under the General tab
there's an 'Output File' field. Change the extension to whatever you fancy.

Steve

"Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:e2******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...
Hi everyone,

What I am doing in my application is I have a base app, then a bunch of
plug-in dll files. Well this gets confuseing to diferentiate between the
real plug-ins and the actual link libraries that are not to be used as
plugins (in reality they are both DLL files) is there anyway I could make
VS.NET compile my VB.NET DLL plug-in projects into a diffrent extension but still be DLL files? (i dont feel like changeing tens of extensions by hand
each build) I'd like the extension to be something like .bdbPlugin instead
of .DLL for the plug-ins so i could also associate a file type with them and give them custom icons with the file type association in windows... thanks!

Jul 21 '05 #2
no clue what you're talking about here, there is no linker properties in
VB.NET project settings... and the only output file field i see is a static
field
"Steve McLellan" <sjm.NOSPAM AT fixerlabs DOT com> wrote in message
news:Oo******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP12.phx.gbl.. .
Hi,

Under project settings have a look at Linker, and under the General tab
there's an 'Output File' field. Change the extension to whatever you fancy.
Steve

"Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:e2******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...
Hi everyone,

What I am doing in my application is I have a base app, then a bunch of
plug-in dll files. Well this gets confuseing to diferentiate between the
real plug-ins and the actual link libraries that are not to be used as
plugins (in reality they are both DLL files) is there anyway I could make VS.NET compile my VB.NET DLL plug-in projects into a diffrent extension

but
still be DLL files? (i dont feel like changeing tens of extensions by hand each build) I'd like the extension to be something like .bdbPlugin instead of .DLL for the plug-ins so i could also associate a file type with them

and
give them custom icons with the file type association in windows...

thanks!


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