Legacy Plugin (2011, 2014, 2015) SDK and references install

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Hi I am new to the SDL developers community. I was recently asked to work on a plugin project for legacy SDL Trados and have a few questions: 
 
 0.1) Am I posting this in the right forum? 
 1) The plugin I was asked to work on was an existing plugin which has been abandoned. While I was able to compile it for the 2014 version by installing the 30 day trial of Trados, is there a nuget package for legacy references? Or is there any other way to get these dll's other than installing trial versions? 
 2) Is there a way to properly take over an abandoned plugin and update the version in the AppStore? 
 3) I can't seem to find any documentation for legacy sdk except in zip format. Is there an online version? 
 
 Thanks for your help, I really do hate being the new guy with too many questions, but I am told my contribution is a pretty important one for translators. 
 Sam Lombardo (AweSam.Net)

Paul · Accepted Answer

Unknown said: To ask Patrick Porter to transfer his repo so that I can maintain it? Or should I create a pull request against SDL-Community to add support for 2014? I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that SDL was not interested in supporting plugins for legacy versions of Trados. 
 ok - if you want the latest version of the code then you should take the code from the SDL repository as this fixes a number of things. But then I think you should maintain anything you do for 2011 or 2014 on your own site and if you want to put it on the appstore you can do this too. But we won't be interested in maintaining the code for older versions at all. 
 Unknown said: There I was able to see links to documentation in a zip file for Trados Studio 2011 and 2014, but I was wondering if there was an online version for these legacy SDKs like there is for 2017 
 No there isn't. We only maintain the latest version online. 
 Regards 
 Paul

Raf Snijders · Answer

Dear Sam, 
 
I can only respond to your question 0.1 regarding to the correct forum for this question and I have to say that it is not. 
 
The forum which you currently posted your question in is the forum focus on the API's of the SDL Knowledge Center Product Suite which includes Application/tools like the Content Manager WebClient, Content Manager Publication Manager, Content Manager Authoring Bridge and others. 
 
For the SDL Trados related question I would propose to use the 'Translation Productivity' or the 'Language Developer' forum as they contain more question related to SDL Trados and the AppStore. 
 
I'll ask our Administrator to redirect this question as well to either of those forums so you will get answers on questions 1, 2 and 3 as well. 
 
Kind Regards, 
 
Raf

Paul · Answer

Hi Sam, 
 Unknown said: 0.1) Am I posting this in the right forum? 
 No you weren't, so I moved it. 
 Unknown said: 1) The plugin I was asked to work on was an existing plugin which has been abandoned. While I was able to compile it for the 2014 version by installing the 30 day trial of Trados, is there a nuget package for legacy references? Or is there any other way to get these dll's other than installing trial versions? 
 Where did you get the source code? We have these: 
 https://sdl.github.io/Sdl-Community/ 
 Unknown said: 2) Is there a way to properly take over an abandoned plugin and update the version in the AppStore? 
 Which app? If it was on the appstore already then you can either ask the developer if you can take it over and we could move it to your account; or you can just submit a new one. 
 Unknown said: 3) I can't seem to find any documentation for legacy sdk except in zip format. Is there an online version? 
 You mention 2014... so what legacy sdk are you referring to? This all seems very cryptic! These are all the things we have: 
 http://appstore.sdl.com/developers/sdk.html 
 Regards 
 Paul

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Legacy Plugin (2011, 2014, 2015) SDK and references install