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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:37 AM

AddIn FxCop rules released! [Mueez Siddiqui]

We have released FxCop rules to verify view and contract assemblies. This should make it much easier to create views and contracts that follow the version-resilience and isolation guidelines. Head on over to our CodePlex site on http://www.codeplex.com/clraddins
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:56 PM

Add-In Performance: What can you expect as you cross an isolation boundary and how to make it better [Jesse Kaplan]

Aren’t AppDomains too Slow? “Aren’t AppDomains too slow?” This is one of most common questions we get when we recommend AppDomain or Process isolation to someone building an extensible application. For some applications the answer is yes, which is why
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Monday, February 11, 2008 5:39 PM

Feb CTP of Add-In Pipeline Generator is Released on Codeplex

We've just release the first update to our Pipeline Generator to Codeplex: https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=clraddins&ReleaseId=9222 This release addresses many of the issues/suggestions the community filed with the
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:56 PM

Announcement: New Tool to Auto-Generate Add-In Pipelines [Jesse Kaplan]

This has been one of the most requested features we've had since people started learning more about our model and playing with the bits and I'm very happy to announce that we have published this on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/clraddins/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Pipeline%20Builder
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:52 PM

Support for Windows Forms in Hosts and Add-Ins

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions recently regarding the support for Windows Forms based add-ins and hosts in a multi-AppDomain environment. Now that we’ve released .NetFX 3.5 with the support for passing WPF controls across AppDomains the lack
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:49 PM

Resources

MSDN Resources Conceptual/How-to Documentation: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384241.aspx API Reference: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.addin.hosting.aspx Online Articles MSDN Magazine 02/2007 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:19 PM

Video: Jack Gudenkauf on the BCL and Add-ins [Jack Gudenkauf]

I was recently interviewed by James Vastbinder, an ISV Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft. We discussed the needs of ISV’s and what’s new in the pending Orcas release (i.e., CLR v3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 v9.0). And for those interested in hearing
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Monday, August 06, 2007 7:17 PM

AppDomain Isolated WPF Add-Ins [Jesse Kaplan]

Earlier Jack announced an exciting new feature in our beta2 release in the ability host WPF controls across AppDomain boundaries. This will allow add-ins to generate their own UI and to pass it back for display within the hosts window. Ever since the
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Attachment(s): AppDomain Isolated WPF Demo.zip
Friday, July 27, 2007 8:47 PM

By Popular Demand [Jack Gudenkauf]

We just released VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2 (code name "Orcas"). You may download the release here . What’s new? 1. UI extensibility By far the most requested feature has been UI extensibility built upon the Add-In model. We are very happy to announce
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:03 AM

Add-In Lifetime Management [Pete Sheill, Jim Miller]

A good question to ask when evaluating a design is ‘how is the lifetime of this object or component managed?’ That is, · How do you know it isn’t needed anymore? · Is it possible to release the resources while the object is still in use? · Is it possible
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:42 PM

Behind the Scenes: Activation [Pete Sheill]

Let’s discuss the specifics of the construction of the add-in, the isolation boundary and the pipeline in the add-in model – i.e. activation. I’ll be referring to the discovery and activation as discussed here and the segments of the add-in pipeline as
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:34 AM

More on Logging UnhandledExeptions from Managed Add-Ins [Jesse Kaplan]

Last time we discussed some issues to be aware of when trying to build hosts that are resilient to failures in their add-ins. The central idea was to subscribe to the UnhandledException event on the hosts AppDomain and to use the "sender" parameter to
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Attachment(s): ReliableExtensibleCalculator.zip
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:09 AM

Using AppDomain Isolation to Detect Add-In Failures [Jesse Kaplan]

One of the nice aspects of isolating add-ins in a different AppDomain is that it makes it easier to prevent failures in the Add-In from impacting the host and at the same time improves your ability to detect when a problem has occurred and which piece
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Attachment(s): ReliableExtensibleCalculator.zip
Friday, April 13, 2007 4:22 PM

Automation Add-Ins [Jesse Kaplan]

First off I'd like to apologize for the long pause between posts. We've been working heads down on some pretty exciting add-in stuff that we can't announce just yet and haven't had as much time as we'd like to spend on this blog. We're wrapping that work
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Attachment(s): MyAutomationApplication.zip
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:02 PM

Refactoring Work in Orcas March CTP [Jesse Kaplan]

We've had a few questions internally and externally from people who were having problems running some of our earlier samples on the March CTP so I wanted to give everyone a heads up on what has changed and how to move forward any sample code you may have
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Attachment(s): ExtensibleCalculator V2.zip
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