How to reference a DLL on runtime?

Question

I\'m building an application with WPF and C#, basically I want to allow anyone to create a dll and put it into a folder (similar to plugins). The application will take all t

Answer 1

I've implemented something like you are asking for that searches through dlls in a given directory and finds classes that implement a particular interface. Below is the class I used to do this:

public class PlugInFactory
{
    public T CreatePlugin(string path)
    {
        foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.dll"))
        {
            foreach (Type assemblyType in Assembly.LoadFrom(file).GetTypes())
            {
                Type interfaceType = assemblyType.GetInterface(typeof(T).FullName);

                if (interfaceType != null)
                {
                    return (T)Activator.CreateInstance(assemblyType);
                }
            }
        }

        return default(T);
    }
}

All you have to do is initialize this class with something like this:

---

   PlugInFactory loader = new PlugInFactory();
     InterfaceToSearchFor instanceOfInterface = loader.CreatePlugin(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);

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