What is the difference between add-ons and plugins?

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Hallo everyone,

I have been developing an ASP.NET web project with my work-mets and the project requires a kind of plugin. In other words, a program which runs on behalf of the client side.

The architecture looks like this: at the client's first browse, the page loads the plugin on the machine and starts doing some stuffs.

Now, my first question is:
1. Is it possible to develop such a program for ASP.NET application?
2. If so, how much is its interoperability like working-ability on different platforms such as: browsers, Operating systems?
3. What is the difference between add-ons and plugins?

The back language is C#, we used.

Thank you,

Posted 5-May-11 2:19am

Yonathan1111

Updated 5-May-11 2:27am

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willempipi 5-May-11 8:31am

Ever heard of Silverlight? Thats basicly what your describing. If you really want to go though with this project and reinvent the wheel, I think you'll have to create a different plug-in for each browser.

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Gandalf_TheWhite · Answer 1 · 2013-12-30T20:04:00

Solution 2

Its best explained here, Its exactly what I wanted to convey.

You will get basic Idea about the terminology difference.

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Posted 30-Dec-13 20:04pm

Gandalf_TheWhite

Rob Grainger · Answer 2 · 2011-05-05T03:02:00

When you say "on behalf of the client side" do you mean you want the plug-in to execute on the server to perform some task on behalf of the client. If so this is entirely feasible - make your plug-in a C# assembly that can be run on the server.

If you want it to be client-side, your options are Silverlight (not very portable) - especially with the recent sacking of most of the Mono staff - or JavaScript. Conceivably, a JavaScript page could be loaded in the browser based on user options somehow, but that could be an enormous security risk.