Develop from Visual Studio, but without restarting NT on every change

[ttodua]

When we build an indicator or addon (which has .xaml and resource files embedded, or even contains code that is compatible to higher CLR versions, than NT-editor's CLR) with it's own .sln file, then on every rebuild we have to restart NT to load up the newly generated DLL.
What is the easier way to develop addon/indicator, that loads different XAML/resource files, but on file change/resave, only NinjaScript editor recompiled and thus, no need to generate DLL and restart NT.
Should I solve that just inputing the correct absolute paths for resource-files inside myaddon.cs?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ttodua,

If you are importing a dll from Tools -> Import -> NInjaScript, this should be available as soon as it is imported.

With xaml, any changes would require closing and re-opening the window to reload the xaml.

[ttodua]

to ask in other words, I dont mean opening VS project of `/document/nt8/bin/custom/NinjaTrader.Custom.csproj`, but i mean, when addons/indicators are made as a separate dll (with it's own VS project) and later compiled as DLL, when they make a change in a file, then they have to rebuild the .dll (which is then copied into `custom` folder) and doesn't it need also restart of NT to re-load that custom dll? or is there any way, so new dll's can be seen & recompiled by NT editor, like a typical .cs file change is being detected and recompiled instanteneously? I knew that it was not possible with dlls...

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ttodua,

That would be out the realm of what is supported by NinjaTrader Support. The supported method would be to import the dll from Tools -> Import -> NinjaScript Addon. The support approach would not require restarting NinjaTrader.

I will not be able to assist with the unsupported approach of manually placing files in the file system.