I have trouble with plugins installation. When download plugin I see three different type of plugins structure.
1) Only plugin with whole structure (controllers,views and etc). This type is install easy. Only copy files in project and deploy. or https://ibb.co/bAT8uk
2) Plugins with dll files.
or https://ibb.co/bwoV75
3) Only ddls files
or https://ibb.co/mjmHn5
Can you explain me 2 and 3 how to install, because I can`t find information about how to install this type of plugins structure.
I have trouble with plugins installation. When download plugin I see three different type of plugins structure.
1) Only plugin with whole structure (controllers,views and etc). This type is install easy. Only copy files in project and deploy. or https://ibb.co/bAT8uk
2) Plugins with dll files.
or https://ibb.co/bwoV75
3) Only ddls files
or https://ibb.co/mjmHn5
Can you explain me 2 and 3 how to install, because I can`t find information about how to install this type of plugins structure.
Hello,
Second option is plugin with source code. You have one directory with plugin ready to use in your store, second with dll you can use to modify plugin if you are familiar with ASP.NET.
You need to have source code version of nopCommerce, then in "Plugins" directory of entire solution you need to create your plugin subfolder, e.g Nop.Plugin.YourPlugin, extract here the directory with dll.
After that you can compile plugins and install them in web version of nopCommerce.
If you have source code you can also compile it by yourself. Compiled version is a final product of plugin development. Source code are the most important in your plugin. But generally source code are intellectual property, the most of developers don't share source code to avoid stealing code or solutions.
As I said you, and as it's described in thread I wrote you above, you can't install them untill you compile the source code and get compiled files like in the option 1 and 2.
Tell us want you are really trying to do... - install an executable plugin in a site? or - install the source code in a development environment (so that you can make changes, and recompile)?