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Plug-ins in C# 2.0: Generics Enabled Extension Library

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A follow up to my previous article, this article takes the plug-in concept and encapsulates it in a Generics enabled library, including support for source code compilation at runtime.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;

namespace ExtensionManager
{
    public class Extension<ClientInterface>
    {
		public Extension()
		{
		}

		public Extension(string filename, ExtensionType extensionType, ClientInterface instance)
		{
			this.extensionType = extensionType;
			this.instance = instance;
			this.filename = filename;
		}

		private ExtensionType extensionType = ExtensionType.Unknown;
        private string filename = "";
        private SourceFileLanguage language = SourceFileLanguage.Unknown;
        private ClientInterface instance = default(ClientInterface);
		private Assembly instanceAssembly = default(Assembly);

		public ExtensionType ExtensionType
		{
			get { return extensionType; }
			set { extensionType = value; }
		}

        public string Filename
        {
            get { return filename; }
            set { filename = value; }
        }
        
        public SourceFileLanguage Language
		{
            get { return language; }
            set { language = value; }
        }

        public ClientInterface Instance
        {
            get { return instance; }
            set { instance = value; }
        }

		public Assembly InstanceAssembly
		{
			get { return instanceAssembly; }
			set { instanceAssembly = value; }
		}


		public Type GetType(string name)
		{
			return instanceAssembly.GetType(name, false, true);
		}
		
    }
}

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