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I’ve worked on a few .NET WinForms applications that utilized a “plugin” model. You’ve probably seen similar apps out there, where a main application searches a directory for DLLs, and then tries to load them into the AppDomain, using some code like below:
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Assembly plugin = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(pluginFileName); |
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<span style="color: #0000ff">object</span> pluginClass = Activator.CreateInstance(plugin.GetType(<span style="color: #006080">"Plugin.PluginClass"</span>)); |
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This kind of architecture is pretty standard, and is…