DotNetCorePlugins | .NET Core library for dynamically loading code

DotNetCorePlugins is a C# library. DotNetCorePlugins has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

[build status][ci-badge]][ci] [code coverage][codecov-badge]][codecov] [nuget][nuget-badge] ![nuget downloads][nuget-download-badge]][nuget]. [ci]: [ci-badge]: [codecov]: [codecov-badge]: [nuget]: [nuget-badge]: [nuget-download-badge]: this project provides api for loading .net core assemblies dynamically, executing them as extensions to the main application, and finding and isolating the dependencies of the plugin from the main application. this library supports .net core 2, but works best in .net core 3 and up. it allows fine-grained control over assembly isolation and type sharing. read [more details about type sharing below] #shared-types). blog post introducing this project, july 25, 2018: [.net core plugins: introducing an api for loading .dll files (and their dependencies) as 'plugins'] since 2018, .net core 3 was released, and it added stdlib api to improve assembly loading. if you are interested in understanding that api, see "[create a .net core application with plugins][plugin-tutorial]" on docs.microsoft.com. the result of this tutorial would be a simpler version of dotnetcoreplugins, but missing some features like an api for unifying types across the load context boundary, hot reload, and .net core 2 support. install the [mcmaster.netcore.plugins nuget package.][nuget]. the main api to use is pluginloader.createfromassemblyfile. see example projects in [samples/] ./samples/) for more detailed, example usage.