What is the architecture of BlogEngine.net extension manager ?

Question

Hi, I was just wondering that what is the architecture of blogengine.net extension manager ?

How it loads the extension dynamically, how can I use same kind of functionality in my web applications ? so that every time i just create one class and corresponding page then just plug into the website.

Moreover I am interested to know the architecture as I didnt find any article or tutorial on it.

Any help would be appreciable.

Thanks & Regards

Gufran Sheikh

Answer 1

You can see for yourself the code is on codeplex

Answer 2

Maybe the Plugin Pattern, have a look here how this works..

Answer 3

You can read about what it is and how it works in the wiki docs. Blogengine uses reflection to find and instantiate types attributed as "extension" and extensions itself use event listeners to communicate with core library. Extension manger is basically API and admin front-end for all extensions running on the blog.