Plugin authoring problem

Have been following this tutorial https://www.nopcommerce.com/docs/77/how-to-write-a-nopcommerce-plugin.aspx

Got through The plugin structure, required files, and locations but when I run nop from VS I am not seeing the new plugin when I go to Admin area > Configuration > Plugins?

Why not?

Here's the code

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Routing;
using Nop.Core.Domain.Cms;
using Nop.Core.Plugins;
using Nop.Services.Cms;
using Nop.Services.Localization;

namespace Nop.Plugin.Widgets.Clock
{
    public partial class ClockPlugin : BasePlugin, IWidgetPlugin
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Get a list of supported widget zones; if empty list is returned, then all zones are supported
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>A list of supported widget zones</returns>
        public IList<WidgetZone> SupportedWidgetZones()
        {
            //limit widget to the following zones
            return new List<WidgetZone>() 
            { 
                WidgetZone.BeforeLeftSideColumn, 
                WidgetZone.AfterLeftSideColumn, 
                WidgetZone.BeforeRightSideColumn, 
                WidgetZone.AfterRightSideColumn
            };
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a route for provider configuration
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="widgetId">Widget identifier</param>
        /// <param name="actionName">Action name</param>
        /// <param name="controllerName">Controller name</param>
        /// <param name="routeValues">Route values</param>
        public void GetConfigurationRoute(int widgetId, out string actionName, out string controllerName, out RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
        {
            actionName = "Configure";
            controllerName = "WidgetsClock";
            routeValues = new RouteValueDictionary() { { "Namespaces", "Nop.Plugin.Widgets.Clock.Controllers" }, { "area", null }, { "widgetId", widgetId } };
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a route for displaying widget
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="widgetId">Widget identifier</param>
        /// <param name="actionName">Action name</param>
        /// <param name="controllerName">Controller name</param>
        /// <param name="routeValues">Route values</param>
        public void GetDisplayWidgetRoute(int widgetId, out string actionName, out string controllerName, out RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
        {
            actionName = "PublicInfo";
            controllerName = "WidgetsClock";
            routeValues = new RouteValueDictionary() { { "Namespaces", "Nop.Plugin.Widgets.Clock.Controllers" }, { "area", null }, { "widgetId", widgetId } };
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Install plugin
        /// </summary>
        public override void Install()
        {
            
            base.Install();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Uninstall plugin
        /// </summary>
        public override void Uninstall()
        {
            
            base.Uninstall();
        }
    }
}

and the description.txt file

Group: Widgets
FriendlyName: Clock
SystemName: Widgets.Clock
Version: 1.00
SupportedVersions: 2.50
Author: Dave Burgoyne
DisplayOrder: 1
FileName: Nop.Plugin.Widgets.Clock.dll

anyone point out where I'm going wrong?

Thanks

Dave

Is your output path set to ..\..\Presentation\Nop.Web\Plugins\PLUGIN_NAME

yep

..\..\Presentation\Nop.Web\Plugins\Widgets.Clock\

in all configs

daveb wrote:
I would be faster to debug why the plugin is not loaded at application startup. Have a look \Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs file, Initialize method

a.m. wrote:

Hi Andrei,

I finally got to the bottom of the issue.

I had entered the correct project build output path (by hand) but I had not created the output folder. ^_^

It might be an idea to note in the 'how to' guide that you need to do this.

Thanks for the pointer.

Dave