yeah pretty much I had to pay good money for somebody to show me how to do this
high level:
it is pretty much opening up visual studio
creating a kind of forms application
create the physical side panel
then take all of that code and drop it into a strategy with its own namespace
then you can import this into the strategy
then you have to create events and tie them to the ninja trader event pool so it gets called at the proper time
then you can add the strategy to the chart which is essentially a side panel
you can then open it up and it can have your list of strategies that you can enable and disable