Awesome way to support plugins/AddIns in your applications

sonam — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:06 GMT

Hey all,
I can't imagine how easy it can be to develop and maintain a plugin architecture with System.AddIn and this tool
VSPipelineBuilder.. This is a visual studio addIn is an open source project by the ClrAddIn team and is really awesome.

U just define an interface/Contract and rest of the things, just a single click through that addIn.
AddIn will implement that Interface and thats it,u can use it..Cheers .........

I used it for first defining a single interface .and implemented a small AddIn.
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then i added 2-3 interfaces and re executed that VSPipeline Builder AddIn..And it was awesome to see that every project in The Pipeline(4-5 projects) got updated accordingly.My old AddIn was still working becoz its contract was still there..
And iwas ready to implement new AddIns..Really great...It can save a lot of time when u have a lot of contracts to support various plugins/AddIns.
Below is a screenshot of an excellent demo app from jesse kaplan:

It demonstrates visual addIn also(Passing UI objects between AddIn and host)
ClrAddIn Team blogs at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/clraddins/

U can download the VSPipeline Builder from here:

http://clraddins.codeplex.com/

Cheers,And thanx to Jesse kaplan and the whole ClrAddIn team.

Creating AddIn support in .Net 3.5?help...

sonam — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:16:26 GMT

Hey everyone,I am writing this so that anyone can point me to some good articles,tutorials on creating a plugin support for an application in .Net 3.5 or higher(SP1).

I tried a lot of google searches but nothing that can let me create plugin support for my application in a standard way...
Thanx in advance.

MAF

Awesome way to support plugins/AddIns in your applications

Creating AddIn support in .Net 3.5?help...