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Mar
22
Written by:
Brian Swanson
3/22/2005 1:58 AM
I’ve been downloading a LOT of sample, example, and open-source code lately. I’ve got this idea, and I’m doing research on it. For the first time ever, I’m actually trying to design the idea before I start writing code. Novel concept isn’t it?
One of the more interesting articles I’ve read lately while doing some research for my project was on MSDN. In an article titled "Plug-Ins: Let users add functionality to your .NET Applications with Macros and Plug-Ins", Jason Clark does an excellent job first explaining why making an application extensible is so important, and then moves into describing the functionality in the .NET framework that allows for making extensible applications.
He covers all aspects of extensible applications, from FINDING assemblies that could be loaded as plug-ins for your application, actually loading them at run-time, how to implement secured and unsecured plug-ins.
It’s a full-featured article that is a must read for anyone who’s working on an application that will have any extensibility functionality in it. For me the only downfall of the article was that all the code samples were in C#. I consider myself a fairly competent programmer, and can read C# quite fluently. But, I’ve never taken the leap to actually become C# programmer in full force. So, to make things easier for myself, I converted all of the code samples provided by Jason to VB.NET.
And now I’m making the converted code available to you.
I’ve taken on the challenge of converting quite a bit of C# code to VB.NET lately, and it’s making me a better programmer. It’s showing me the pitfalls and advantages of using VB.NET and helping me understand VB.NET all the better. I’ll hopefully have time in the next few weeks to begin describing some of the challenges I’ve encountered, and how I overcame them in my converted code.
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