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DXCore extensible plug-ins mechanism

July 2nd, 2010 Comments off

The DXCore has a mechanism for creating extensible plug-ins. Using the existing architecture gives some benefits:

  1. Child plug-ins that extend your plug-in are managed by our demand-loading architecture.
  2. Creating a child plug-in can be done in a component-based manner. That is, the user can drop your “extension” component on their plug-in designer surface to extend your plug-in. Using this architecture is not hard: