and how would I go about doing that? because I've tried that before I think
and never got it to work right.

This is what I have now where IPlugin is the default plugin interface with
this definition..

Public Interface IPlugin

Sub OnBeginShutdown()

Sub OnStartup(ByVal Application As Object)

Sub OnConnect(ByVal application As Object, ByVal ConnectionMode As
ConnectionMode)

ReadOnly Property name() As String

ReadOnly Property GroupName() As String

ReadOnly Property Icon() As Drawing.Icon

ReadOnly Property Comments() As String

End Interface

<Description("holds information about loaded plugins")> _

Public Structure pluginInformation

Public Plugin As Object

Public Name As String

Public PluginGUID As Guid

End Structure

Dim objAssembly As [Assembly] = [Assembly].LoadFile(s)

Dim classToUse As String = String.Concat(objAssembly.GetName.Name,
".Connect")

Dim plugIn As IPlugin = DirectCast(objAssembly.CreateInstance(classToUse,
False, BindingFlags.CreateInstance, Nothing, aArgsList, Nothing, Nothing),
IPlugin)

'Dim plugIn As IPlugin = DirectCast(objAssembly, IPlugin)

If plugIn Is Nothing Then

Throw New Exception("Failed to load plugin")

Else

Dim plugGUIDAttribute As Attribute =
Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(objAssembly.GetType(classToUse),
GetType(GuidAttribute))

Dim plugGUID As New Guid(CType(plugGUIDAttribute, GuidAttribute).Value)

Dim pInfo As New pluginInformation

With pInfo

.Plugin = plugIn

.Name = DirectCast(plugIn, IPlugin).name

.PluginGUID = plugGUID

End With

ht_loadedPlugins.Add(pInfo.PluginGUID, pInfo)

Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("Loaded Plugin {0}, with GUID {1}",
pInfo.Name, pInfo.PluginGUID))

plugIn.OnStartup(AppObj)

End If

"Chris Dunaway" <dunawayc@gmail.com> schrieb:

Sample:

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/codingtechnique/PlugIns.zip>