adobe-plugins.md

Adobe Illustrator plugins development tips and tricks

Requirements

-Build Windows desktop applications using the Microsoft C++ toolset, ATL, or MFC. feature (in VS 2017).

• VC++ MFC support installed for Visual Studio.
• Windows SDK (currently 10)
• Resharper for C++

Tips and tricks

• make sure you build 64-bit executables, otherwise you will get Error loading plugins error message in Illustrator.

Useful resources

Open-source plugins

• Ai2Canvas
• Bloks

Troubleshooting problems with loading plugins

• Error loading plugin on Windows
• Error loading plugins CC 2014
• Hello World - not working for 64bit illustrator