Custom components and ASP.NET MVC

Question

I was curious how in the typical ASP.NET MVC mentality one could build a platform that others could develop plugins for. I mean, how would those plugins look like?

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Answer 1

The most promising component techniques have come from the guys over at lostechies.com and Mvccontrib in the form of Portable Areas. Portable Areas allows an entire MVC app to be appended onto an existing application. So its not just a UI component but also provides all the work flow and screen integration as well.

Open Forum does something like this as well. I don't know how, but it is very plug and play.

For straight up plugin architecture there is an interesting screencast and source code for Rob Connery's link text. He takes advantage of the App-Code directory to slide new plugins into place without having to edit the main site.