Issue Exporting AddOn as Assembly DLL

[codeowl]

Hi there,

I have created an AddOn, and I am testing the export process. I have added the source files to the project in the following structure:

NinjaTrader.Custom
- MyCompany
- MyClass (in MyCompany namespace)
- AddOns
- MyAddOn (uses MyCompany namespace and MyClass class)

When I go to export, I can only select the MyAddOn, not the MyClass class.

When I press the export button I get the error:
Error compiling export assembly. Please check your logs.

When I look in the logs it says:
The type or namespace name 'MyCompany' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

What am I doing wrong here?

I have had a look at the following pages:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?export.htm

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?export_problems.htm

But they don't cover my scenario.

Also while trying to get this to work I did one attempt where I pressed the Add button on the NinjaScript Export window, and selected References from the Type menu in the Select dialogue, and ticked the PresentationFramework. When I tried to export with that selected I get the error:
Time Category Message
17/01/2016 9:57:37 PM Default Error compiling export assembly: error CS0006: Metadata file 'C:\Users\MyAccount\Documents\NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom\PresentationFramework.dll' could not be found

That seems a bit strange. It happens when I select any reference.

Is this a bug, or I am doing something wrong. Again it is not covered in the above doco.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Scott

[codeowl]

Ok after much trial and error I have now solved this.

I worked out that you can add dll references via the NinjaScript Editor. I had only been adding via VS to the NT8 project. I had originally created all my code in a Class Library project. So I went back to this approach and added a build event for it to copy the dll file to the following folder:
C:\Users\MyAccount\Documents\NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom\

It took a fair bit of trial and error to work out that is where the dll needed to go. Would be great if that was documented somewhere.

I am now able to export the AddOn.

Anyway hopefully this helps someone else save some time ;-)

Regards,

Scott

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello codeowl,

Thanks for posting the issue and solution you found.
I will update our development group to this to see if there is anything they can add to the documentation that would be helpful going forward.