Author Topic: HowTo reload an addin without closing / opening EA  (Read 4150 times)

VaGen

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HowTo reload an addin without closing / opening EA
« on: November 19, 2010, 08:45:10 pm »
Hello,

In development phase, I have to test several time per days / hours the updated addin. The only way I found so far was to close EA, copy the freshly built dll to the addin deployment directory and open EA.

Since this operation is annoying & time consuming, I was wondering if their is a better way to do this ?

Thanks for your support !


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Re: HowTo reload an addin without closing / openin
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2010, 08:55:08 pm »
I always write a separate test application that I use to test the functionality of my addin.
I then disable the addin in EA untill my tests are OK, and only after that I test it from within EA.

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Re: HowTo reload an addin without closing / openin
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2010, 01:31:53 am »
You could do it like this. Have a (almost) static dll which loads addins dynamically.

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