How to know plugin data source not installed in the machine .net sdk

ShaneTsh — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:48:25 GMT

Hi,

I have a plugin data source project and also its addin project. Addin project uses a reference of the plugin project. But if only addin is installed and not its plugin, Pro is crashing.

How to check if the plugin is not installed in the machine in the addin project to stop Pro to crash?

@Wolf @GKmieliauskas @UmaHarano

Re: How to know plugin data source not installed in the machine .net sdk

Wolf — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:57:04 GMT

You can surround the creation of the PluginDatastore by try ... catch as it is implemented here:
arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/Plugin/SimplePointPluginTest/TestCsv2.cs at master · Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples · GitHub

In essence you need this

try { // you must use await in order to catch any exceptions in the new thread await QueuedTask.Run(() => { using (var pluginws = new PluginDatastore(...)) { using (var table = pluginws.OpenTable(table_name)) { } } }); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); }

you could also check Pro's AssemblyCache folder for the Guided folder of the Plugin, but that's a bit more involved. Either way there shouldn't be a crash.

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