Plugin developers can use ARES Command plugin template to start a project from scratch. This project template Wizard can be downloaded from Visual Studio Marketplace. It contains 5 project templates which enables to create FRX Simple plugin, FRX Application, C#, VB.NET, ARES C++Core SDK plugin projects for ARES Commander 2024.
ARES Commander 2024 Core SDK Plugin
ARES Commander 2024 FRX Application
ARES Commander 2024 FRX Plugin
ARES Commander 2024 VB.NET Plugin
ARES Command 2024 C# Plugin
ARES Commander 2024 Core SDK Plugin Project
This template creates a plugin project which is using Core C++ CFx API.
Prerequisite: ARES Commander SDK must be installed to build this type of projects and environment variable ARES_SDK must be set to SDK path build the project.
Load: Use LOADAPPLICATION or APPLOAD to load this type of plugin DLL.
ARES Commander 2024 FRX Application Project
This template creates a plugin project which is using FRX API. This template creates a basic project infrastructure and an application class and it’s Initialization/ Un-initialization code. This project is using FXARX environment variable to locate the API headers and linking libraries.
Prerequisite: ARES Commander SDK must be installed and environment variable FXARX must be set to build this type of projects.
Load: Use LOADAPPLICATION or APPLOAD to load this type of plugin DLL.
ARES Commander 2024 FRX Plugin Project
This template creates a plugin project which is using FRX API. This template creates a basic project infrastructure and entry point function with Initialization/ Un-initialization code. This project is using FXARX environment variable to locate the API headers and linking libraries.
Prerequisite: ARES Commander SDK must be installed and environment variable FXARX must be set to build this type of projects.
Load: Use LOADAPPLICATION or APPLOAD to load this type of plugin DLL.
ARES Commander 2024 VB.NET Plugin Project
This template creates a VB.NET plugin project ARES Commander’s .NET Classic API. This template creates a basic project infrastructure and an application class and it’s Initialization/ Un-initialization code. This project using assembly references from ARES Commander’s BIN folder.
Prerequisite: ARES Commander and .NET framework 4.8 must be installed to build this type of projects.
Load: Use LOADDOTNETAPPLICATION or NETLOAD to load this type of plugin DLL.
ARES Commander 2024 VB.NET Plugin Project
This template creates a VB.NET plugin project ARES Commander’s .NET Classic API. This template creates a basic project infrastructure and an application class and it’s Initialization/ Un-initialization code. This project using assembly references from ARES Commander’s BIN folder.
Prerequisite: ARES Commander and .NET framework 4.8 must be installed to build this type of projects.
Load: Use LOADDOTNETAPPLICATION or NETLOAD to load this type of plugin DLL.