Structuring common code - Possible to use DLL from Visual Studio?

[cunparis]

I have some code that doesn't use the Ninjatrader APIs. Is it possible to make a DLL with Visual Studio (or whatever the .NET equivalent is, I'm not too familiar with .NET yet) and then use the DLL with Ninjatrader?

I have a couple of issues:

1 - I want to avoid having all my code in one class. I have one strategy I'm working on and there is already a lot of code.

2 - I'd like to develop the code that is independent of Ninjatrader and test it and package it into a DLL (or whatever).

3 - I have common code that will be used for several strategies, I'd like these strategies to share this code.

Are any of these possible? Worst case, can one strategy call another one?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Yes, you can create a DLL and reference this DLL inside of NinjaScript. This is actually not a NinjaScript capability but standard C# .NET coding.

[mrlogik]

You can do this with Visual Studios and DLL fuctions, but I have not tried this yet.

In terms of the code getting large, check the other post about global functions

You can also make use of
#region name
#endregion
key words to minimize the amount of code displayed at a given time.