Where have you been? Assuming I haven’t lost all my readers by now, due to my silence, this seems to be a reasonable question. Does anyone out there watch “ Lost ”? I ended up getting hooked in the beginning and now I can’t...

Earlier I posted a link to the announcement on ScottGu's blog about the framework source availiability for debugging. I wanted to follow-up with my experience using the reference source. I found the installation instructions on "Configuring Visual...

In this post I will be showing sample code (also found on our CodePlex site ) as well as an execution sequence diagram. I will show sample code addressing some frequently asked questions; A Host calling AddIn services, AddIns calling (aka. Automation...

After all, our job is to make your life easier. I have received a *lot* of requests for a tool that can generate the Add-In pipeline segments. Ever since we mistakenly left comments in our MSDN articles code about the pipeline source being machine generated...

We just posted a solution to consider for the F.A.Q. of how to enable isolatable WinForms applications. Check out this link . This solution may be considered relative to my previous post and subsequent comments. Note that WPF startup performance costs...

It's official. We have released to manufacturing. I am personaly very excited about the Add-in addtions to the BCL, but you can also find over 250 new features in this release (e.g., LINQ). Check out the new release here .

Hola! I just returned from TechEd 2007 held in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is a beautiful city with incredible new and old architecture. The people are very friendly and even I was able to navigate the clean public transportation systems. Yes, I am...

TechEd is shaping up to be a huge event in part due to the fact that we will not have a PDC this year. Jesse and I will be doing a presentation on the Add-in model, and participating in a chalk talk among other things. If you have an opportunity to attend...

We have modified the Soapbox video by moving the WPF on BCL Add-in model demo to the start of the video and we have posted this updated video to Channel 9 . The video will also be on the Channel 9 home page for a while. From James, “Several weeks back...

Recently I was speaking to a group of ISV's and Enterprise partners and as we spoke about the continued transparency of Microsoft, I vaguely mentioned more is coming. Well, here it is. ScottGu's blog post goes into the details of opening up our framework...

Visual Studio (VS) 2008 and .Net 3.5, code named “Orcas”, will be released in the near future. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. The release includes new major features such as LINQ , Cider (The VS WPF designer), “ Crossbow...

Last year, I did a webcast when I was attending an SI (Solution/System Integrator) Architect conference in Paris. Ah, Paris in the spring, love the Champs-Elysees and the Aviation club in particular. The webcast was done as part of an ISV webcast series...

Another Paris Hilton, Pam Anderson, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, or Political video? Nope, Sorry. All business on this site. I was recently interviewed by James Vastbinder, an ISV Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft. We discussed the...

Here is the MSDN help link for what's new in WPF 3.5 regarding support for Add-In's .

VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2 (code name "Orcas") is now available. Here is the link to download . I am extremely excited about this release due to a number of features that I have been passionately advocating on behalf of the customer for several...

Recently I was writing a sample app showing some new MAF (Managed Add-In Framework) features that will be released very soon. Stay tuned. As I was showing isolation and unload-ability, I wanted to enumerate the AppDomain's in the current process. Surprisingly...

It's a great time to be a managed code developer! Our fearless leader, Jason Zander , has just blogged about our plans to enable the frequently requested feature of in-proc SxS CLR's . To date, it has been difficult for me to respond (i.e., not comment...

We have gone through some naming changes with WinFX and .Net . And we have gone through a few on the MAF (Managed AddIn Framework), the WinFX AddIn model and System.AddIn. The previous are all terms we use to discuss the Add-In model in the broad sense...

Click this link for a description of the source code I have attached the VS solutions in the file : SourceSolution.zip View Source: Show Code ... HostApp project – RemotingSamples Program.cs using System; using System.Collections...

I previously wrote about bi-directional remoting over IPC (see .Net Remoting continued and .Net Remoting ). Several people asked for complete sample code. Ok, the squeaky wheel gets the attention. This could be an indication of my poor writing skills...

This posting is in response to a F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Question) I receive regarding the Add-In model and Winforms . To be clear, there is nothing in the Add-In model that prevents rich isolatable Host/AddIn UI scenarios. Support for AppDomains...

In a previous post ( Extra, Extra – Read all about it! ) I mentioned an upcoming highly requested feature. Well, it’s here. Last night we released the Visual Studio, code name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP. In this release you will find a number of VS, Language...

I have been asked on several occasions to articulate type versioning and isolation (and ensuring types do not leak) semantics. I worked with the CLR Add-In team to define and document these semantics relative to the System.AddIn model but you can certainly...

(5/16/08, updated MSDN links ) The March MSDN issue is now available on-line. In this issue you will find our second of two MSDN articles introducing the new System.Addin* Base Class Libraries (BCL). In our first article we walked through the typical...

We recently published an article on the new CLR System.AddIn libraries in the February 2007 MSDN magazine . As I looked at the magazine cover I was *amused* by the coincidental irony of an issue that proudly announced not 1, but 3 separate Add-In solutions...