WinUILoadPlugin

The purpose of this project is to do a simple PoC to let WinUI 3.0(Desktop) App to dynamically load the plugins written in WinUI 3.0(Deskktop) ClassLibrary. The code sturctures are as followings

• PluginBase is a WinUI ClassLibray and it only has the definition of ICommand interface to be referenced by the following projects.

• WinUILoadApp(Package) and WinUILoadApp are WinUI(Desktop) App where inside "MainWindow.xaml" are the details of how to dynamically load external WinUI3.0 ClassLibrary for example, HelloPlugin. It directly add reference to PluginBase project

• HelloPlugin is a WinUI ClassLibrary and it directly add reference to PluginBase project and does the implementation of ICommand. Need to mention that it creates a "HelloUserControl" and set it as the return for one field(View) in ICommand interface.

• DataProvider is a WinUI ClassLibray and added as reference by HelloPlugin to provide the values for HelloPlugin.

How To Deploy

• Deploy WinUILoadApp(Package) first
• Right click on HelloPlugin project to build (The reason why deploying WinUILoadApp (Package) first is, there is a post build script to xcopy HelloPlugin related binaries into AppX under WinUILoadApp(Package) project (WinUILoadApp (Package)\bin\x64\Debug\AppX)
• Run the project

Known Issue

Currently, this solution can't run successfully when dynamically loading HelloPlugin. The exceptop occurs inside the constructor of HelloUserControl.

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