Pluggable architecture of nopcommerce

Question

I want to create a pluggable architecture for my ERP project. I want to adopt the approach of nopcommerce, can anyone explain how it works please?

Answer 1

Did you check the sources like recommended on nopCommerce community forums?

Question asked by you: Plugin architecture

or

Question asked by you on GitHub: pluggable architecture

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Anyway, here's a shortage on how it works

The method Initialize of PluginManager gets called pre application start. This due to the attribute of PluginManager

[assembly: PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(PluginManager), "Initialize")]

Initialize() then will load all Description.txt located in the ~/Plugins (default) folder and its sub directories.

If a plugin is compatible with current nopCommerce version it shadow copy the plugin DLL and its dependencies (other DLLs) and loads it using BuildManager.