One of the first problems you try to solve when adding extensibility to your application is that of discovery: how do you find the add-ins to your application? Depending on the application, and what happens to pop into your head at the time, you may go...

Jason He is one of our team members and has an interesting series of blog posts describing his efforts to use the add-in model from Paint.Net. You can check these out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/zifengh/ He goes step by step through the entire process...

The first of two articles we wrote for MSDN magazine was published online today (and available in newstands now): http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx This article introduces you to our APIs and walks through a sample...

We’re a new feature team in the CLR that is tasked with making it easy for managed applications to host add-ins (and plug-ins, add-ons, extensions, ...) . These features will first be included in the Orcas version of Visual Studio and the .Net Framework...