I am planning to develop a custom ProjectWise API using C++ in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and am having trouble determining which "Project Type" to create. The API will be called from another application and passed a parameter which will search ProjectWise for documents meeting some criteria and then if those documents are found a window would pop up that includes links to each document.
I have developed other PW API's in VS 2005 using MFC Application and WIn32 Console Application types but I don't think they will work because I need to open a window, just not at startup time. I tried starting a project using a Windows Forms Application type and was able to open a custom window later, but when I tried setting it up to use the API functions like I normally would for an MFC application, I got compiler errors from several of the API header files and got stuck. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Stephanie
Create the type that would best fit the application it will be called from. What kind of a window do you need to open? ProjectWise may be able to do it for you.
The resulting window only needs to consist of links to all the documents found in PW, nothing special.