What's new

Breaking changes! ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️

• Dropping support for directly parsing the deps.json file. This is usually not required anymore. Since .NET Core 3, the built-in API AssemblyDependencyResolver handles those files.
• Dropping support for .NET Core 2.1 and 3.1 in the NuGet package.

Notes

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/2.0.0-beta.130
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/2.0.0-beta.130

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

Notes

The majority of changes since 1.3.1 are dependency updates and code cleanup. Notable changes include:

• https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/commit/5cd23e723ff91add602bbf5a0db031d36ee7f7c7
• https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/commit/6f402064f2e36f119d3d09d19754458731523f91
• https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/commit/5be3e0c192ac270f62da8a36175d2b18e5265af7

See https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/compare/v1.3.1...v1.4.0 for the full diff.

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.4.0
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/1.4.0

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

Notes

Includes "load pdb file if available for linenumbers in stacktrace"(https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/pull/204)

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.4.0-beta.87
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/1.4.0-beta.87

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

Notes

Thanks to @Sewer56 for contributing a bugfix and a feature.

• feature: add option to support lazy loading of transitive dependencies to increase performance (PR #164)
• bugfix: search in additional probing paths (PR #172)

How to get this update

Packages have been posted to these feeds:

NuGet.org

https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.4.0-beta.41
https://nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc/1.4.0-beta.41

GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/natemcmaster?tab=packages&repo_name=DotNetCorePlugins

Changes:

• 84028845c24a8ca8b6cfda245154dfc7ef32e60b Update releasenotes.props
• ca8f5bd3c71ee4c2c125ffc5b6e0660d774ac5b5 Update version to 1.3.1
• 0f397dd5f440d1526cb7201024f8a391b08bb420 Don't create shadow copy that already exists (#147) [ #146 ]
• 467fc1031a5020239f32489c42d46d544d9a2f6a Remove authenticode signing of binaries and packages (#143)
• 4930145d8829f881aa33e4ea852b2507d5881ba7 Change default branch to 'main' (#142)

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Changes:

• e52e83933a0b7596bf834157f4ae4a6f670565ca Update 1.3 release notes
• 7891b0929b1b1cac0135eeb0137988549d561da9 If we don't want hot reloading but want load assemblies into memory to keep files lockfree in order to able to reload manually in future.

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Thanks to @thoemmi for the contribution in PR #129!

https://www.nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins/1.2.0

Changes:

• 6f98de6c9f9c7b862103e875b9df5a10103b27f7 Update release notes and public API docs for 1.2 release
• 6fbd67525d1e34dd69167053c75af2762132abfa Update version to 1.2
• 4effc382b9eb94619e116477ace2bfb7f7af9abd Add debouncing to FileSystemWatcher events (#129)

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Thanks to @KatoStoelen for contributing a feature for this release! Kudos 😄

Changes:

• 69e7d30b82cf4b935c551edb0df250ab28141c03 feature: Shadow copy unmanaged DLLs when hot reloading enabled (#119) [Fixes #118]

This release contains stabilization and a few bug fixes. I personally believe this library is stable enough to use in most production projects. I highly recommend using with .NET Core 3.1 and up as versions of .NET Core < 3 had to workaround severe limitations in System.Runtime.Loader.

Changes:

• 370d3558e675e195728d02df5c9bf2f59d258a51 infra: update dependencies (#116)
• bb7b92a3ab64499b910bea9e7c1e708e99d2e5d4 infra: update azure-pipelines.yml (#115)
• dc2336db7d07389434528c2d3fa1186d2645af6a docs: update README.md (#114)
• d868ffa7d727c9c1941cfe42bf5487e86e1229a8 Update releasenotes.props (#113)
• a634d3b21e3d6bc7a05fe895b2517e10764e15a3 feature: support non-default AssemblyLoadContext(s) (#111) [ #110 ]
• e5d74ec3f35c70dc2618f6d38615de356485ccdd Merge branch 'release/0.3.2'
• f15ce7517bb97005422b232e916473d4aaa0053f Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (#105)
• 7481aaa76a54bf2d729da10b23925f711abad1c0 Add code comments to hello-world sample and README (#104)
• 54e60e257aeeb01b7371e9626d8cc7476ec8d5bc Create CONTRIBUTING.md (#95)
• 4002fc350c9360ca0c98090e49ff1fafe28b358a Update stale.yml to leave issues open at least 1 year (#102)

• fbcde75e4fc55da06c59e6c22b41196026be3bb9 Fixup broken .sln file
• 1761362bb1cff579dfa69867a66030937f6a0458 Update samples and docs about how shared types work
• 4fdf44c86a0de97f7027106132b83f856275cab7 Update issue templates
• 54942bec5938369278edee87b0c463d4be8e20d5 feature: add IMvcBuilder.AddPluginLoader
• 8b95bbee5b63b305c7797e748c851172c4f6d0f0 docs: document contextual reflection API and issue templates
• b7556acd9ad107f5a0d576125f6ef321ff098e2f docs: remove links to myget from readme
• dbbb552ba4154ace967b9412e9d04b04d89da3d4 Update release notes and package metadata for 1.0.0
• c3395913bfa1cc520a00c14d6687787105294cef Delete obsolete API [ #76 ]
• dd942dd4f9318f345b265bdeeb9a5c8b991f7d44 feature: add API for contextual reflection
• 60db210880ceaf699257f3edaa33fd185e9893b5 cleanup: run code formatter on sample
• 0508b6ed3cc29b0f1b77c0af47f69d7ff4981e5c Merge pull request #81 from zeppaman/master
• 920bc696412582e71cb1e1ffc3c3f707fb8bd49c Update README.md
• 656c047b520fb58dbb4edfd17ab198c2a586d4a9 fix register singleton
• 312a9d96ababb245b5617bbb85d103fb55badbaf README notes
• bfb354d4f81f4fe2d611021f99866a9c4c147821 removed bad project
• 12f0b6d8110765a2570f69f57ec22b7ae8364d31 Added sample for service implementation override

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• c68b1c8d18e017fa2d58eea1c323e7a7c93df0d4 Update release notes and version for 0.3.2
• 1d0700a462ca196eaf4399d0676bbbe8b14b01d9 Add powershell version of script for hot-reload sample
• 5bcf692300cedeccdf470caf3e4dab9b8290f834 fix: ensure assemblies are loaded into memory, not read from disk, when hot reload is enabled

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Changes:

• 60142b1f64bb084138bcba4fbe63260d91072626 Update release notes for 0.3.1
• bf431090f715d37607687a9f9daa33757c06b79b Support CoreCLR hosted in native app (#80)

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Changes:

• ad509801a6342256ede456b69e66af1663338bfd Update API lists and dependencies for .NET Core 3 release
• 90fedfadb046264fdcd4f718578c9fb92f288212 Complete .NET Core 3.0 support

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Once .NET Core 3 ships in a few weeks, I plan to update this package to the stable version of .NET Core 3.0 and ship 0.3.0.

Changes

• 6c471dc402d0f9b4e7466277c21d196f8ee476ef Implement naive hot reloading (#62) [ #37 ]

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Once .NET Core 3 ships in a few weeks, I plan to update this package to the stable version of .NET Core 3.0 and ship 0.3.0.

Changes:

• c513f0ba6c2d65470e2c8416a858367428627b2d fix: ensure transitive dependencies of shared types unify [ #41 ]
• c84759e39df778983b760ffb2af2d607fed36c4f docs: shared types
• a1e2a2713418ea29dc37bb180946b29d8594fb83 Add sample demonstrating the use of a dependency injection container
• 999068788a47a4276598435650774002a7376276 feat: upgrade project to C# 8

• f11179f4026c2f2e6b72db16bb9bbb69cb9c6193 cleanup: add analyzer to check for breaking changes to public APIs (#58)
• 0fb415261f0c2140322f19b9e1daae3b93233700 Update API for 0.3.x
• c1b55e311b87a5a8fe0c51590de893f1f6fe5728 Merge branch 'master' into feature/publicapi
• a8d6ccd703a0da90de3681c137a05e246b9c81c6 Add public API for 0.2.x
• d5c41d808699b470a12ee52177ad982157e9f51a docs: update hello-world README
• 1f6c8481c7a99f7f419c637e2176e5f6cf6045e6 docs: add sample for simple console app
• 530c5194cd27bfac946e9fe3b754e17b312d1189 fix: Update DependencyModel & and System.Text.Json with new API Changes (#54)
• 565d655225ce1fed6038c8efd9d38dbaa9841342 feat: name load contexts [ #39 ]
• a641e86c21879346e3043fed4a1544b971b293fd feat: add a new package, Plugins.Mvc, for loading MVC controllers and Razor views from a plugin
• 2514a4eb99ba7a584039ab4b6cdf33fffb76abfc Update DependencyModel & Switch Deserializer to new System.Text.Json
• 85a4c87dc6a5566e8d480f87efe50f2399146790 Update MVC sample for .NET Core 3
• e94c4aee964f2bafaa2ee8d1e65469fc3575d931 Remove usages of MSBuildAllProjects
• fd3816f3a97434e6aa31641d055d620e2e7e1cac More project ref hacks - undefine TFM properties
• 30a68344a440c27fd0ba66ef42eefbed043fbc8c Enforce build order of test project refs
• be70ea8705f56caa6df0f03d33a651f7994046fb Allow loading assembly by path (#44)
• ac9181a88f67babd2e296b973e67bb698c562134 Update build to 3.0 preview6
• cae6d05486b9d76cc55df79d1c0aef54e14476f4 Update stale.yml
• 4f5616bc17857b8ed1ad5427d5eb4ae79c67cd15 Restore PluginLoaderOptions, but as an obsolete API
• 11100428a0c523035dbc79f4ed7fbfc018ee3c58 Update SDK to 3.0.100-preview5-011568
• 2c21059ecc5a00512ef657ef85add0eac7aa4aaf Fix #15, #34 - replace custom .deps.json parsing with built-in API for resolving assemblies in .NET Core 3
• 0bd41c4b3aee670c909f86daf56de5646900ef55 Drop support for configuring plugins via xml file and refactor PluginLoader.Create* APIs
• 808b134f5ca637216fe87a43a47db0def0ca9dfa Closes #32 - PluginLoader can be created with an existing PluginConfig (#40)
• 4c3652ead76b01a30642362cb53a93f90abb3189 Update azure-pipelines.yml
• 4ef899c789d6ad013516585827a0647cf3b570ef Address #38 - update sample to show usage of sharedTypes for MVC
• 586a67ccafcd347b3d16572ff85fa7d34809f328 Update release notes for 0.3.0 beta
• c87b823b5ac8a7c5b09bb7d01d73d600add29955 Add support for unloadable plugins

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Changes:

• 999068788a47a4276598435650774002a7376276 feat: upgrade project to C# 8
• f11179f4026c2f2e6b72db16bb9bbb69cb9c6193 cleanup: add analyzer to check for breaking changes to public APIs (#58)
• 0fb415261f0c2140322f19b9e1daae3b93233700 Update API for 0.3.x
• c1b55e311b87a5a8fe0c51590de893f1f6fe5728 Merge branch 'master' into feature/publicapi
• a8d6ccd703a0da90de3681c137a05e246b9c81c6 Add public API for 0.2.x
• d5c41d808699b470a12ee52177ad982157e9f51a docs: update hello-world README
• 1f6c8481c7a99f7f419c637e2176e5f6cf6045e6 docs: add sample for simple console app
• 530c5194cd27bfac946e9fe3b754e17b312d1189 fix: Update DependencyModel & and System.Text.Json with new API Changes (#54)
• 565d655225ce1fed6038c8efd9d38dbaa9841342 feat: name load contexts [ #39 ]
• a641e86c21879346e3043fed4a1544b971b293fd feat: add a new package, Plugins.Mvc, for loading MVC controllers and Razor views from a plugin

• 2514a4eb99ba7a584039ab4b6cdf33fffb76abfc Update DependencyModel & Switch Deserializer to new System.Text.Json
• 85a4c87dc6a5566e8d480f87efe50f2399146790 Update MVC sample for .NET Core 3
• e94c4aee964f2bafaa2ee8d1e65469fc3575d931 Remove usages of MSBuildAllProjects
• fd3816f3a97434e6aa31641d055d620e2e7e1cac More project ref hacks - undefine TFM properties
• 30a68344a440c27fd0ba66ef42eefbed043fbc8c Enforce build order of test project refs
• be70ea8705f56caa6df0f03d33a651f7994046fb Allow loading assembly by path (#44)
• ac9181a88f67babd2e296b973e67bb698c562134 Update build to 3.0 preview6
• cae6d05486b9d76cc55df79d1c0aef54e14476f4 Update stale.yml
• 4f5616bc17857b8ed1ad5427d5eb4ae79c67cd15 Restore PluginLoaderOptions, but as an obsolete API
• 11100428a0c523035dbc79f4ed7fbfc018ee3c58 Update SDK to 3.0.100-preview5-011568
• 2c21059ecc5a00512ef657ef85add0eac7aa4aaf Fix #15, #34 - replace custom .deps.json parsing with built-in API for resolving assemblies in .NET Core 3
• 0bd41c4b3aee670c909f86daf56de5646900ef55 Drop support for configuring plugins via xml file and refactor PluginLoader.Create* APIs
• 808b134f5ca637216fe87a43a47db0def0ca9dfa Closes #32 - PluginLoader can be created with an existing PluginConfig (#40)
• 4c3652ead76b01a30642362cb53a93f90abb3189 Update azure-pipelines.yml
• 4ef899c789d6ad013516585827a0647cf3b570ef Address #38 - update sample to show usage of sharedTypes for MVC
• 586a67ccafcd347b3d16572ff85fa7d34809f328 Update release notes for 0.3.0 beta
• c87b823b5ac8a7c5b09bb7d01d73d600add29955 Add support for unloadable plugins

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New package added! Use McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc for plugins that use ASP.NET Core MVC or Razor. https://www.nuget.org/packages/McMaster.NETCore.Plugins.Mvc

Changes:

• 530c5194cd27bfac946e9fe3b754e17b312d1189 fix: Update DependencyModel & and System.Text.Json with new API Changes (#54)
• 565d655225ce1fed6038c8efd9d38dbaa9841342 feat: name load contexts [ #39 ]
• a641e86c21879346e3043fed4a1544b971b293fd feat: add a new package, Plugins.Mvc, for loading MVC controllers and Razor views from a plugin
• 2514a4eb99ba7a584039ab4b6cdf33fffb76abfc Update DependencyModel & Switch Deserializer to new System.Text.Json
• 85a4c87dc6a5566e8d480f87efe50f2399146790 Update MVC sample for .NET Core 3
• e94c4aee964f2bafaa2ee8d1e65469fc3575d931 Remove usages of MSBuildAllProjects
• fd3816f3a97434e6aa31641d055d620e2e7e1cac More project ref hacks - undefine TFM properties
• 30a68344a440c27fd0ba66ef42eefbed043fbc8c Enforce build order of test project refs
• be70ea8705f56caa6df0f03d33a651f7994046fb Allow loading assembly by path (#44)
• ac9181a88f67babd2e296b973e67bb698c562134 Update build to 3.0 preview6

• cae6d05486b9d76cc55df79d1c0aef54e14476f4 Update stale.yml
• 4f5616bc17857b8ed1ad5427d5eb4ae79c67cd15 Restore PluginLoaderOptions, but as an obsolete API
• 11100428a0c523035dbc79f4ed7fbfc018ee3c58 Update SDK to 3.0.100-preview5-011568
• 2c21059ecc5a00512ef657ef85add0eac7aa4aaf Fix #15, #34 - replace custom .deps.json parsing with built-in API for resolving assemblies in .NET Core 3
• 0bd41c4b3aee670c909f86daf56de5646900ef55 Drop support for configuring plugins via xml file and refactor PluginLoader.Create* APIs
• 808b134f5ca637216fe87a43a47db0def0ca9dfa Closes #32 - PluginLoader can be created with an existing PluginConfig (#40)
• 4c3652ead76b01a30642362cb53a93f90abb3189 Update azure-pipelines.yml
• 4ef899c789d6ad013516585827a0647cf3b570ef Address #38 - update sample to show usage of sharedTypes for MVC
• 586a67ccafcd347b3d16572ff85fa7d34809f328 Update release notes for 0.3.0 beta
• c87b823b5ac8a7c5b09bb7d01d73d600add29955 Add support for unloadable plugins

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• 586a67ccafcd347b3d16572ff85fa7d34809f328 Update release notes for 0.3.0 beta
• c87b823b5ac8a7c5b09bb7d01d73d600add29955 Add support for unloadable plugins

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• c5b9a5d2bd1be7aa738daeb799c4928e00163f39 Fix the MSBuild targets which generate plugin.config to put it into the correct output directory

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• f5d8c926707337878469d5bb27328e73d805661f Bump version to 0.2.3 and update build properties
• ab2f80010aa2404e4dcf5ad41a42caca7305d90b Fix #30 - fix for missing target imports when SDK is used as a PackageReference

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• e5cb10fc5aba1ef200823fc0a4ff1f098e86d896 Fix #27 - Ensure ManagedLoadContext normalizes paths before loading native assets via LoadUnmanagedDllFromPath.
• 2ad31734fa17e6d33d7efcb1495c845aa77da11f Update azure-pipelines.yml
• fce2c9d1181cad6090c39b8006d57254aad4047d Replace AppVeyor with Azure Pipelines (#29)
• f1d45662a45e6cf0bec5544f7df4ed0ab6f2edf6 Fix #25 - fix loading in MVC sample and add fallback to loading assemblies from the plugin base directory
• 56f469201331bb9de44c674ed910bee64aad5ed4 Don't attempt to codesign projects which aren't packable
• ad66725684cc1c9b293146bd215749a6f651cf10 Fix #26 - handle P/Invokes which call for the native library file the file full name
• 91b44684f5f696cc7c51d4eae1081e339ff77a15 Update README.md (#22)
• abf20cdaacebb1d691df3ed5aa18d22892f5a48a Add a sample for loading ASP.NET MVC controllers from plugins

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