System.Addin

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John Wright

I have going to develop a new program from scratch using VB 2008. During
our discussion with the clients, it became clear very early that we will
need to supply additional functionality for different departments and
functions. So browsing around I ran across the the System.Addin namespace.
This intigued me. However, after a couple hours of searching, I am finding
a lack of any real good VB.NET examples (figures huh?). So I am coming to
this group to plead. Does anyone have any reference or links to using the
System.Addin namespace with VB.NET? I don't know if this is the way we are
going, but I would like to learn more and mess around with it a bit before I
rule it out or commit ourselves to this. There will be addins from other
developers that I would like to use this namespace if possible to simplify
the addins instead of doing reflection.

Thank.

John
 
John,

Both addins and reflection you should and could avoid.

There is so much standard in Net that you need at least a livetime only to
know what is there.

You can just reference to it (as it is called) and use it.

Reflection is using the possibilities of a DLL at run time, this you don't
get for nothing, as you use a name that is ambigious by instance it will
only be seen at runtime by a break of your program, despite of that is it
of course very much slower while running, as you want to use it, then set
simple Option Strict to Off. (This feature is not in C# so you see often
used reflection by C# programmers, while professional VB.Net programmers try
to avoid that).

Cor
 
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