"Jody L. Whitlock" <tierscheiss1***@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> Can someone assist me in this quest?  I've been trying in vein for some
> time now to figure out how to use AppDomains as a way of making a
> plugin architecture.  Basically, here's my plan:
>
> 1) Load main assembly
> 2) Create new appdomain to "discover" all plugins and report them back
> to the main assembly
> 3) Destroy discovery domain (To free assemblies/resources)
> 4) Create new appdomain and load advertised plugins into it
>
> Now, the reason for this is so that if I have a new plugin, I can
> destroy the plugin appdomain, start with step 2, and reload the new
> plugins without having to reload the main assembly.  So, I need to
> learn how to do a couple of things:
> A) Pass objects between appdomains
> B) Call methods in my plugins from my main assembly
>
> I plan to use this in a service project, basically all the
> functionality of the service is in the plugins, with the main assembly
> basically being a loader.  This has been requested because one of the
> DLL's the service uses has to be modified every 30 days, so the boos
> wants to do this without having to shut down the service.  he can live
> with a few seconds interruption.
> I plan on leaning heavily on a method I made that resembles CallByName,
> plus some static methods.  I also plan on using this in one of my
> WinForm apps, making a custom MenuItem object that will also contain
> the method to execute.
> Here's the kicker, the boss is an old unix programmer, and this whole
> thing started because he "heard" somewhere that one can simulate
> unix/linux's functionality of CopyMemory to detach a running binary
> from the file, update the file, then reattach the binary, effectivly
> updating a binary without shutting it down.
>
> So, any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Jody W

"Jody L. Whitlock" <tierscheiss1***@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> Can someone assist me in this quest?  I've been trying in vein for some
> time now to figure out how to use AppDomains as a way of making a
> plugin architecture.  Basically, here's my plan:
>
> 1) Load main assembly
> 2) Create new appdomain to "discover" all plugins and report them back
> to the main assembly
> 3) Destroy discovery domain (To free assemblies/resources)
> 4) Create new appdomain and load advertised plugins into it
>
> Now, the reason for this is so that if I have a new plugin, I can
> destroy the plugin appdomain, start with step 2, and reload the new
> plugins without having to reload the main assembly.  So, I need to
> learn how to do a couple of things:
> A) Pass objects between appdomains
> B) Call methods in my plugins from my main assembly

> "Jody L. Whitlock" <tierscheiss1***@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> > Can someone assist me in this quest?  I've been trying in vein for
> > some time now to figure out how to use AppDomains as a way of
> > making a plugin architecture.  Basically, here's my plan:
> >
> > 1) Load main assembly
> > 2) Create new appdomain to "discover" all plugins and report them
> > back to the main assembly
> > 3) Destroy discovery domain (To free assemblies/resources)
> > 4) Create new appdomain and load advertised plugins into it
> >
> > Now, the reason for this is so that if I have a new plugin, I can
> > destroy the plugin appdomain, start with step 2, and reload the new
> > plugins without having to reload the main assembly.  So, I need to
> > learn how to do a couple of things:
> > A) Pass objects between appdomains
> > B) Call methods in my plugins from my main assembly
>
> AppDomains and Dynamic Loading
> <url:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp05162002.as
> p>
>
> Plug-in Manager
> <url: http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/DynamicPluginManager.asp>
>
> Dynamically executing code in .Net
> <url:
> http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/DynamicCode/DynamicCode.htm>

"Jody L. Whitlock" <tierscheiss1***@hotmail.com> schrieb:
>> AppDomains and Dynamic Loading
>> <url:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp05162002.as
>> p>
>>
>> Plug-in Manager
>> <url: http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/DynamicPluginManager.asp>
>>
>> Dynamically executing code in .Net
>> <url:
>> http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/DynamicCode/DynamicCode.htm>
>
> Wow, definatly not going to be simple to implement.  Looks like I'm
> also going to have to implement Remoting as well, and also translate
> all the sample from C# to VB.NET.  Fun, but thanks for the start, it's
> more info than I had before.