Wow! System.AddIn the easy way Build and interface, press a button, build an add in, build a host. Wow! So, the pipeline builder tool really works. You have to do a couple of things not mentioned in the documentation I used. Actually the documentation needs a little work, but its there and not too bad...
Yippee! I love it when someone else does my work for me. Part way through building a code generator for the otherwise nightmarish task of creating add-ins for use with System.Addin, a little bird told me that the CLR team was slaying the same dragon. Not one to stand in the way of their being heroes...
When I was fighting with AppDomains to support XML Linq code generation in my new Workflow based code generator, Bill McCarthy said “Hey did you look at System.AddIn” and I said “No, silly I’m not writing add-ins.” Well, a few months later, I’m still trying to make it work, and have come to think it...
I have just escaped an Alice in Wonderland type maze with System.AddIn namespace. It’s a bit of a nightmare to create the plumbing for an add-in so stay tuned in Visual Studio Magazine for a column on how to generate this so you only do the logical work a) Define the add-in API b) Write the add-in If...