Second instance of OD throws ex with Plugins

[wjstarck]

A customer of mine likes to have 2 instances of OD running on a single PC with dual monitor support so he can slide one over to use the Anesthetic Record on one monitor and pull radiographs up in the second OD instance for viewing on the other.

However, OD will throw an exception when the second instance of OD tries to load the plugin assembly.

A try-catch around line 1378 of Form OpenDental

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try {
    Plugins.LoadAllPlugins(this);//moved up from right after optimizing tooth chart graphics.  New position might cause problems.
    /It was moved because RefreshLocalData()=>RefreshLocalDataPostCleanup()=>ContrChart2.InitializeLocalData()=>LayoutToolBar() has a hook.
     }
     catch { }

like so resolves the problem, with one or more plugins to load. If this change or something similar could be backported to 7.6, that'd be great.

Thanks.

[jordansparks]

Well, we can do something similar, but we won't just let it fail silently. We will have to notify the user by means of a popup window that their plug-in failed to load.

Michael will handle it.

[wjstarck]

Maybe have it only fail silently when it's a second instance of OD then. Otherwise users get confused.