How do you integrate SharpCap commands with Visual Studio?

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tmnathe
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How do you integrate SharpCap commands with Visual Studio?

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I switched over to Visual Studio to see if I could work around some of the limits of SharpCap's scripting tool.

Very nearly have that problem licked if only I knew how to get the SharpCap scripting commands imported.
Any thoughts on the matter?

What I'm seeing is a warning message - "SharpCap" is not defined.

And also, don't know what happened, but along the way, all the hardware commands past SharpCap disappeared (like no Cameras, Mount, Wheels, and related. All that showed up were logical and comparison functions. I had to delete SharpCap and reinstall it for the hardware commands to reappear.
I'm blaming an errant cosmic ray burst but I suppose a bit got flipped.

Thanks!
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Re: How do you integrate SharpCap commands with Visual Studio?

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Hi Tom,

unfortunately that approach isn't something that is supported - there is a certain amount of software protection built into SharpCap to try to prevent people from easily working around the pro license checks, and that means that there isn't a DLL on disk that you can load into a development environment like Visual Studio and work with.

Sorry about that,

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Re: How do you integrate SharpCap commands with Visual Studio?

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Well, it was an idea.

But thanks again for the help.

Tom
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