Add Plugins to Your App 2: Search dynamically for plugins without Config Files

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• Nice Articel -
  
  
  Can you provide the source for that too?
  

• Great, this is some good stuff. I am totally new to progamming in the .NET-environment, and I needed some plugin stuff.
  
  
  
  
  
  Well written article, all is clear. You seem like a bright fellow :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cheers,
  
  
  GeheimnisNacht
  

• It is probably worth stating in the beginning of the article that unless a dynamic update of plugins is required "Assembly.Load(string path)" will do the job. In other words, unless the application is required to allow updating loaded plugins without restarting it (e.g. it's a server) there is no need to resort to a complex loading/unloading routine.
  
  
  
  I know it is mentioned in the linked article on MSDN but for a new user reading this article it might appear that using AppDomain-based loading is the only way of loading plugins dynamicaly, therefore it might be useful re-iterating it in the beginning.
  
  
  
  Hope it's useful.
  
  
  
  ID
  

• you forgot to say that the Royo.PluggableApp.PluginFinder class mast inherit MarshalByRefObject
  
  in order to be operate under different AppDomain
  
  
  
  :)
  
  
  
  ([Serialization] won't do the work because it will deserialize into the main AppDomain)
  

• The source isn't available for download anymore.
  
  Any other place I could download?
  
  
  
  Great article btw! :D
  

• Nevermind my previous comment, I think I've managed to find the download on the MS site. I had to search by your surname (even though when I searched yesterday based on article name I came up whit squat, nada, nichts :)... TIA again.