Load Addin only for a certain repository

[E.Eckstein]

Hi dudes and dudines  

I have a requirement and I got no idea how to realize it. The search in .chm and the forum didn't change this issue.

My problem is following: In the company, some users are working on different repositories (Oracle DBs). The Add-In I developed is quite spezialized and though I know it shouldn't it might crash if it is used in the wrong repository (some special guid's missing etc.) ...

So what I want to do is deativate the Add-In if an different repository is opened.

I had something in mind like developing an 2nd Addin, which could listen to project opened or something like this and deativate the actual Add-In.

I am afraid I can't find a method or something similar to deativate an running Add-In.

Some ideas?

Best Regards,
Eric

[Aaron B]

Can't think of any way to prevent the add-in from loading as this happens before you have connected to any repository.  My suggestion would be to have your add-in check the value of Repository.ConnectionString and/or Repository.RepositoryType() and then handle as appropriate.  E.g. check these values in EA_GetMenuState and disable the menus when not connected to your Oracle repository.

[E.Eckstein]

Hey Aaron,

thank you very much for you fast reply.
Yes I thought so. I might check the connectionstring as you said, save it to a static variable and just return from events fired by EA if we are in the wrong state.

Well thank you again,
If someone else has an idea - I'll still check the thread in time

Regards,
Eric

[Geert Bellekens]

I would do as Aaron suggests.

But technically you can in fact use an add-in to load (or not) other addins.

I'm working on such a project  (soon to be released) but it is no easy task.

Geert