Thanks for your comment!
It’s great that it helped you solve your issue! It’s good to know that now you can reuse and reopen the SmartParts.

Thanks for your feedback!

As always, any feedback you may provide is more than welcome.

Cheers,
Nacho

Private Sub MdiWorkspace_SmartPartClosed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As WorkspaceEventArgs)

If e.SmartPart.GetType() Is GetType(CountryManagerView) Then
If Me.WorkItem IsNot Nothing AndAlso Me.WorkItem.Status WorkItemStatus.Terminated Then
Me.WorkItem.Terminate()
End If
End If

End Sub

Also i can reuse my View freelly.
Keep on!!

Thanks for the feedback! I wrote the article for VS 2005 and SCSF May 2007, but I forgot to write that, again!

However, I took my time to have a look at this and I couldn’t reproduce the behavior you wrote about. I migrated the Plugin Quickie to VS 2008 (by this I actually mean that I followed the same steps I wrote for VS 2005, but in VS 2008) and I had the same result as in VS 2005.

In addition, I also removed the “public” modifier from the PluginContext class and set the “internal” modifier to the PluginApplication class, and I still got the same result.

I also wrote a simple (non-CAB) application to see if this was an unexpected behavior of the Application.Run() method with an ApplicationContext in VS 2008, but I still got the same result.

Thanks again for the feedback. It will be helpful for anyone who comes across the same issue. You are welcome to provide more information on this.

Thanks again!

- Nacho

class PluginContext : ApplicationContext
{
//Made this public
public MainForm mf = new MainForm();
}

//Made this internal (not public)
internal class PluginApplication : ApplicationContextApplication

protected override void AfterShellCreated()
{
base.AfterShellCreated();
ToolStripMenuItem item = new ToolStripMenuItem(”Plugins”);
this.Shell.mf.MainMenuStrip.Items.Add(item);
ToolStripItemCollectionUIAdapter adapter = new ToolStripItemCollectionUIAdapter(item.DropDownItems);
RootWorkItem.UIExtensionSites.RegisterSite(”PluginMenuBar”, adapter);

//Had to add this to actually see the MainForm
this.Shell.mf.Show();

}

Hope this helps…
Randy