Plug in concept

Question

I want to develop plug in concept in my work. First time I want to build a program and after it I only add few plug in dll to make better my work without touching my main program. But i am unable to implement it.

Please help me.

I give you my little idea. a small *.exe has three textfield , comboBox & one button. One plug in has add function, another has subtract method.

So, first that *.exe will consider them that those(*.dll) are extend part of them, and load them. then choosing the method in comboBox the operation will executed, (add,subtract etc).

That's the idea but I can't do anything.

Please share me your Idea.

Plug in concept will help every one for better project implementation.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Sir I am searching lot, get 3 articale from another site and 1 from this site.
But I could not get their concept of coding. So for understanding clearly about this topic i wrote on this forum.

Thanks for your reply.
Sorry I am not searching in MSDN. Thanks for link...
But i am still searching. for simple conceptual article for my simple work.

Thanks again. :)

Answer 2

Did you search the articles in this website for articles about plugins? I did, and I found one article.


Did you search the MSDN, as in:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=plugins&ac=1


I searched and found an article "C# 2.0: Loading plugins at run-time using late binding".

Answer 3

Sir a little bit example will help me...
It looks like complex but interesting to me.

Thank you in advance! :-)

Answer 4

I am not sure of the details of how to do it, but I think you can define an interface that each plugin uses.