Developing an extensible app?

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James Edwards - 16 Sep 2004 16:38 GMT

Has anyone had experience of developing a win-forms app where you want to
allow add-ins. Almost to the point of being like the management console in
windows? I'm sure I saw a link on MSDN about a year ago doing something
similar to this.

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James E

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- 17 Sep 2004 01:49 GMT

> Has anyone had experience of developing a win-forms app where you want to
> allow add-ins. Almost to the point of being like the management console in
> windows? I'm sure I saw a link on MSDN about a year ago doing something
> similar to this.

There are loads of examples of doing this on TheCodeProject, some good, some
not so good.

One of my faves is http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/reflection.asp as it
demonstrates using Interfaces and Reflection to do it in a very .NET-esque
way. There are however countless other examples which go into more detail.

AndyC

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Jeremy Williams - 18 Sep 2004 22:55 GMT

> Has anyone had experience of developing a win-forms app where you want to
> allow add-ins. Almost to the point of being like the management console in
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> James E

The MSDN article for creating a plug-in friendly app is at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/10/Plug%2Dins/

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