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While working on my Gmail, I found an email that I wrote on Oct 16, 2006, while I was still working at Borland, on how to integrate a .NET assembly plugin into the IDE.
Here's the email.
To integrate a .NET assembly into the IDE, create a value with the full path name to the location of the assembly at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\4.0\Known IDE Assemblies. Set the data of the value to non-empty string in order for the IDE to load the assembly.
using System;using Borland.Studio.ToolsAPI;using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace OpenToolsNETPlugin{ public class MyOTAClass {
public MyOTAClass() { }
public static void IDERegister() { MessageBox.Show("I'm loaded"); }
}}