Extensibility is a system design principle where the implementation takes future growth into consideration. For iOS app extensions, use [ios-app-extension].
Questions tagged [extensibility]
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How to write simple, extensible, modular Javascript
I need a mechanism whereby people can extend my base code with their own modules - but I'm struggling to come-up with a simple mechanism to do that.
Example: a function called 'test' which users can extend. Each user module is loaded after the…
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IRibbonExtensibility GetCustomUI not called
I'm developing a shared add-in for Outlook.
One of my customers is experiencing trouble on his machine, he does not see my add-in buttons/ui in the main window ribbon.
After exploring his environment and my logs I noticed that the function…

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Best (free) way to store data? How about updates to the file system?
I have an idea for how to solve this problem, but I wanted to know if there's something easier and more extensible to my problem.
The program I'm working on has two basic forms of data: images, and the information associated with those images. The…

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How do I run (unit) tests in different folders/projects separately in Visual Studio?
I need some advice as to how I easily can separate test runs for unit tests and integration test in Visual Studio. Often, or always, I structure the solution as presented in the above picture: separate projects for unit tests and integration tests.…

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Which static analysis tool for Java is easiest to extend?
Which static analysis tools for Java has easiest extension mechanism. I checked PMD
But the process of writing custom rules appears to be very involved.
Specifically, I want to know whether there is any tools that offers AspectJ like syntax for…

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How does Microsoft's MEF compare to Eclipse?
What is common and different between MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) and the Eclipse platform? I feel MEF is very similar to Eclipse with DI added.
Your thoughts?

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Is it possible to override UrlHelper.GenerateUrl() across ASP.NET MVC framework?
The method UrlHelper.GenerateUrl() is located in System.Web.Mvc.UrlHelper
I need a different implementation that would affect everything from Url.Action() to Html.BeginForm().
This is the current .NET implementation:
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Extending SCSS Styles in an Angular Dashboard with Plugin Architecture
I am developing a Dashboard in Angular with a Plugin Architecture to keep it easily extensible. The dashboard consists of pre-defined visualizations like scatter plots. I also want to allow adding visualizations from external sources, i.e., an…

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How to add extra info to BenchmarkDotNet summary?
How can I add extra informationto extend the summary information produced by BenchmarkDotNet?
Like:
current host name or
current (Git) branch name
I would like to achieve something similar to this example:
Host MachineName:…

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How to implement Exp in Bool or Iff from the paper Extensibility for the Masses
I'm currently going through the paper Extensibility for the Masses. Practical Extensibility with Object Algebras by Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and William R. Cook (available many places on the internet - for example here:…

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Extensibility without Open-Source
My company is currently in the process of creating a large multi-tier software package in C#. We have taken a SOA approach to the structure and I was wondering whether anyone has any advice as to how to make it extensible by users with programming…

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User profile database design
i have to design a user account/profile tables for a university project. The basic idea i have is the following:
a table for user account (email, username, pwd, and a bunch of other fields)
a user profile table.
It seems to me that there are two…

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Are there any Build tools designed with Mercurial in mind?
I've just moved a large project out of a legacy version control system, and into Mercurial. I'm now faced with the task (opportunity!) of overhauling my old build system to work with this new source control system.
Are there any good build systems…

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Asp.Net Mvc3, MEF, Plugin Implementations
Has anyone been able to create an Asp.Net Mvc plug-in implementation using MEF (or some other IoC tools) that does NOT require the Razor views to be compiled into dll's? Ideally, I'd like to be able to deploy Razor view changes by simply dropping…

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Adding Plugin Support : Interface or Base class to inherit?
I'm adding plugin support to my .NET application. A base class sounds reasonable to me, so people can inherit it and override certain calls as well can keep the default functionality or can use some internal helper functions.
Why would I choose…

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