Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Creating and Redistributing LNS Device Plug ins
- 3 How Plug ins Work with Directors
- How Plug ins Are Represented in the LNS Object Server
- How Plug ins are Installed and Made Visible to LNS
- How Plug ins Implement the Registration Command
- How Plug ins Respond to Commands from a Director Other than Registration
- How Directors Launch and Manipulate Plug ins
- What Plug ins Do When They Run in Standalone Mode
- Responding to Property Reads and Writes
- Uninstallation Issues
- Appendix A Standard Plug in Commands
- Appendix B Standard Plug in Properties
- Appendix C Standard Plug in Object Classes
- Appendix D Standard Plug in Exceptions
Preface
You can use LNS device plug-ins to simplify the installation of your devices for network
integrators. This manual provides an overview of the LNS Plug-in API and how plug-ins
and director applications such as the LonMaker Integration Tool interact. It describes
how to install the LNS Plug-in Framework Developer’s Kit, which implements the LNS
Plug-in API and provides a set of framework assemblies that let you efficiently develop
and redistribute LNS plug-ins. It explains how to write device plug-ins using .NET
programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET, and how to redistribute your
LNS device plug-ins.