<![CDATA[Notepad++ Plugin development]]>Hi Group,

I’d like to start Notepad++ Plugin development because i believe, that notepad++ is a great editor and all folks use it.
So i started one month ago from scratch following the Plugin Development instructions.
For that i used Visual Studio 2019 and file plugintemplate-3.1.zip
But Visual Studio did not like the NppPluginTemplate.vcxproj.
Finally i succeeded downloading a really old Template which i found in a youtube video and i got a resulting dll.(after manually fixinging my vs installation, adding lib.exe)
However it was 32bit and my Notepad++(64bit) would not load.

Could you please update the plugin development instructions and make them idiot-proof ?
I would really like to dive into that …
Thank you

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19496/notepad-plugin-developmentRSS for NodeWed, 20 May 2026 07:13:42 GMTWed, 03 Jun 2020 05:59:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:38:32 GMT]]>@Guenther-Sohler

thit sounds like that you did not select an SDK when you installed Visual Studio, could that be?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55351https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55351Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:38:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:28:23 GMT]]>Hi,
Thank you for your attention.
I am missing ALL included files. I could not find any header files in my VS2017 installation.
Thee Header files which i am actually missing) is:

ctype.h (included from winnt.h)
stddef.h (included from sci_position.h)

My VS 2017 is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017

What is the correct place to source these include files from ?

Thanks again!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55345https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55345Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:28:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:06:07 GMT]]>@Guenther-Sohler

Which header files are missing?
The last time I used the cookiecutter, it created all the files,
needed from Npp’s point of view, accordingly.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55281https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55281Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:06:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:26:59 GMT]]>Yes i found it in the meantime, thank you
Now i have my Notepad++ Plugin available inside Visual Studio 2017,
but it does not compile because there are no headers installed with
Visual Studio C compiler.
Which Component is missing to get the headers ? i cant sort it out.

Thank you

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55275https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55275Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:26:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:27:34 GMT]]>it’s on the root folder.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54570https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54570Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:27:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:37:02 GMT]]>Hi,
Thank you for the cookiecutter hint.
I used it and installed it, but I cannot find the the sln file in my computer.
Where is it ?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54557https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54557Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Notepad++ Plugin development on Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:19:16 GMT]]>Hello,
You may try the fabulous cookie cutter tools
https://github.com/dail8859/cookiecutter-npp-cpp-plugin

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54552https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54552Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:19:16 GMT