[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by fenderbob

Any idea why this might be? I don't want to anger the makers of the software with my question, but why is it that no one is working on mods for vB5? Did it not sell as much as they expected? Is it too buggy?

I just find this very odd...and there has to be a reason why. I feel like if there was a bunch of people actively working on 3rd party stuff, that would be a good place to start in asking someone to do some custom code work.

Is there a point where you think more people may start working on this kind of stuff in the future? vB5 has been around for several years now...

I only develop for my own clients but if I were to venture a guess I would say that the complete lack of hooks up until recently deterred many of the third party developers who worked on previous major version add-ons and modifications.

The API really isn't difficult to grasp but for developers who are accustomed to years of hooks and are used to coding without having to even think about how to hook a template it's a foreign language.

To their credit, vB5 did begin to bring back hooks but I'm not certain exactly where they are in that process. Last I knew they had released a test version for third party developers to use and determine where hooks should be located in the product. You'd likely get more information on that asking over at vb.com since Kevin Sours, the lead developer of vB5, is far more likely to see any specific questions you may have on the hooks there than here.