Hi Andrew Jameson 

Just wanted to give you an update on this. The guys spent the best part of today on this issue after making sure they could build a working application themselves... they could. But they can't figure out what's wrong with your source code yet. Will update you later when they get to the bottom of it.

Hi Andrew,

Really appreciate your support in making your plugin available for debug purposes.

The issue was realted to the provider being cast to the incorrect interface by the project termbase provider.  Updating the architecture of your project to resemble more what is demonstrated in the Sdl.Community.ExcelTerminology project resolved the issue.

I have uploaded a new version of your plugin that is identified correctly by the terminology provider; (location via e-mail).  Please use this as an example in furthering your progress in development of this plugin.

for now, I have created an action item for myself -> to identify how we can improve the API + provide better support in avoiding the issue you raised here.

Thank you,

Patrick Andrew

Hi Patrick,

Thanks very much for the help. I'm now able to display search results as expected. However, the next problem occurs when the user double-clicks on a search result (or right-clicks and then selects "View term details"): I've created a UserControl which gets passed the expected object.

[TerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUI]
public class TerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUI : ITerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUI
{
    private TerminologyProvider _terminologyProvider;
    private TermsList _control;


    public Control Control
    {
        get
        {
            _control = new TermsList(_terminologyProvider)
                           {
                               Text = @"TerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUITermbaseBridge",
                               BackColor = Color.White
                           };

            JumpToTermAction += _control.DisplayConcept;

            return _control;
        }
    }

    // code elided
}

The above method is called and returns my TermsList user control, as expected.

The JumpToTermAction event is also invoked, as expected, and I can step through the code and see that the concept argument is as expected.

public partial class TermsList : UserControl
{
    public TermsList(TerminologyProvider provider)
    {
    }


    public void DisplayConcept(IEntry entry)
    {
        if (!(entry is Concept concept))
        {
            return;
        }

        label1 = new Label();
        label1.Text = concept.TermGroups.First(tg => tg.Language != null).Language.Code;

    // code elided
}





However, there are two things that puzzle me:

1. I placed a Label control on the TermsList user control; in the DisplayConcept method this Label control is null.
   Following the documentation here I also tried to place a WebBrowser control onto the user control - again, when the method was called I found that the WebBrowser control was null.
   Why?
   DisplayConcept is not a static method, the user control has been instantiated, so why are its constituent controls not instantiated?
   
   
2. Despite populating a new instance of a Label control in the above code snippet (as well as trying with a WebBrowser control) the Termbase Viewer panel is empty.
   It's as if the TermsList control that I'm working with is not the same instance which was instantiated by the TerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUI class.