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McMaster.NETCore.Plugins

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Provides API for dynamically loading assemblies into a .NET application. This package should be used by the host application which needs to load plugins. See https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/blob/main/README.md for more samples and documentation.

Last release 2 years ago
no release in 18 months
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 weeks to 3.6 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 10 of 17 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
8 years old
17 releases · first in 2018

Release timeline

17 releases since 2018

Releases

2.0.05 Jan 2025
Drop dependencies on .NET Core 2 libraries for manually parsing .deps.json. Use the built-in .NET 8 API for this.
Breaking changes:

Require .NET >= 8.0

Drop dependencies on .NET Core 2 libraries for manually parsing .deps.json. Use the built-in .NET 8 API for this.
Additional notes
What's Changed

BREAKING CHANGE: dropped lots of out-of-support versions of libraries and associated .deps.json parsing logic. #298. This library project now requires .NET >= 8

Make LoadContext public by @Zhao-Michael in #296

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/2.0.0
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/2.0.0

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

New Contributors

@Misiu made their first contribution in #290

@Zhao-Michael made their first contribution in #296

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v2.0.0

1.4.027 May 2021

@Sewer56 - feature: add option to support lazy loading of transitive dependencies to increase performance (PR #164)

Changes:

@Sewer56 - feature: add option to support lazy loading of transitive dependencies to increase performance (PR #164)
@Sewer56 - bugfix: search in additional probing paths (PR #172)

Additional notes

Notes

The majority of changes since 1.3.1 are dependency updates and code cleanup. Notable changes include:

See v1.3.1...v1.4.0 for the full diff.

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.4.0
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/1.4.0

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

Open source →

1.3.128 Aug 2020

@KatoStoelen - don't create shadow copy that already exists (PR #147)

Changes:

@KatoStoelen - don't create shadow copy that already exists (PR #147)

Additional notes

Changes:

8402884 Update releasenotes.props
ca8f5bd Update version to 1.3.1
0f397dd Don't create shadow copy that already exists (#147) [ #146 ]
467fc10 Remove authenticode signing of binaries and packages (#143)
4930145 Change default branch to 'main' (#142)

This list of changes was auto generated.

Open source →

1.3.08 May 2020

@bergi9 - add 'LoadInMemory' option so you can manually trigger reloads (alternative to HotReload) (PR #133)

Changes:

@bergi9 - add 'LoadInMemory' option so you can manually trigger reloads (alternative to HotReload) (PR #133)

Additional notes

Changes:

e52e839 Update 1.3 release notes
7891b09 If we don't want hot reloading but want load assemblies into memory to keep files lockfree in order to able to reload manually in future.

This list of changes was auto generated.

Open source →

1.2.010 Mar 2020

@thoemmi - Debounce file system events when using hot reload and add API to control the debounce delay (default = 200 ms) (PR #129)

Changes:

@thoemmi - Debounce file system events when using hot reload and add API to control the debounce delay (default = 200 ms) (PR #129)

Additional notes

Thanks to @thoemmi for the contribution in PR #129!

https://www.nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.2.0

Changes:

6f98de6 Update release notes and public API docs for 1.2 release
6fbd675 Update version to 1.2
4effc38 Add debouncing to FileSystemWatcher events (#129)

This list of changes was auto generated.

Open source →

1.1.017 Jan 2020

Add an API to enable shadow copying native library dependencies (PR #119)

Changes:

Add an API to enable shadow copying native library dependencies (PR #119)
Fix issue with native libraries being locked on disk during hot reload (Issue #118)

Additional notes

Thanks to @KatoStoelen for contributing a feature for this release! Kudos 😄

Changes:

69e7d30 feature: Shadow copy unmanaged DLLs when hot reloading enabled (#119) [Fixes #118]

Open source →

1.0.02 Jan 2020

Add an API to enable contextual reflection in .NET Core 3+ (see https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/blob/v1.0.0/README.md#Reflection for

Changes:

Add an API to enable contextual reflection in .NET Core 3+ (see https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/blob/v1.0.0/README.md#Reflection for details)
@Sewer56 - Add support for non-default AssemblyLoadContext's (useful for plugins which load more plugins and native .NET Core hosting) (#111)
Remove API that was made obsolete in 0.3.0

0.3.024 Sept 2019

Support unloading plugins from memory (only .NET Core >3.0)

Changes:

.NET Core 3.0 support
Support unloading plugins from memory (only .NET Core >3.0)
Support hot reloading (only .NET Core >3.0)

Fixes:

Fix errors in loading the transitive dependencies of shared types

Breaking changes:

Support for loading plugin config from an XML file has been dropped. The APIs for PluginLoader.CreateFromConfigFile were removed in favor of PluginLoader.CreateFromAssemblyFile
Merged PluginLoaderOptions with the PluginConfig class

McMaster.NETCore.Plugins

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