Compileing to diffrent file extensions

[Brian Henry]

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!

[Steve McLellan]

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*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.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!

[Brian Henry]

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***************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.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!