We have a plugin developed for Illustrator CS5. We want to upgrade the plugin to be compatible with Illustrator CC 2015.
There were lot of changes and Adobe deprecated lot of existing libraries and introduces new things. To start with, we tried to build freegrid plugin from sample code from SDK. The freegrid.aip file got generated when built using VS2013. We copied this file to Illustrator plugin folder and started the Illustrator. It is giving error loading plugin message.
We tried to change build properties to change it to 64 bit but still the same problem.
I was in the same situation as you seem to be, and my solution was to use Hot Door's CORE library to rebuild my plugins. It requires pretty much a complete re-write of your code, but the new libraries are very similar. It's possible to use CORE for the UI and any other elements you want, and combine it with the Adobe SDK. I like that the CORE projects can be compiled for many versions of Illustrator and are very cross-platform. You'll need VS2010, though. My current plugins work with CS6 through CC 2017, both Mac and Windows, including 32- and 64-bit. I hope this helps!
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