maf – Tarik Billa

Looking for a practical approach to sandboxing .NET plugins

March 30, 2023 by Tarik

I have accepted Alastair Maw’s answer, as it was his suggestion and links that led me to a workable solution, but I am posting here some details of exactly what I did, for anyone else who may be trying to achieve something similar. As a reminder, in its simplest form my application comprises three assemblies: … Read more

Choosing between MEF and MAF (System.AddIn)

November 12, 2022 by Tarik

I’ve been evaluating these options and here’s the conclusion that I came to. MAF is a true addon framework. You can separate your addons completely, even running them inside a separate app domain so that if an addon crashes, it won’t take down your application. It also provides a very complete way of decoupling the … Read more