How To Build Modular WPF Applications With a Plugin Architecture

WPF is a powerful user interface framework for CSharp, but I hate some of it.

Is hate too strong of a word? Probably.

But in the many years I spent building desktop applications in WPF, I found that I would be fighting against a lot of the framework to make things happen.

However, two things that I don't compromise on are:
- Dependency Injection
- Plugins

So we're going to see how we can build a plugin-based WPF application and set you on course for using a plugin architecture in CSharp!

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[liangbinyu]

It is quite fancy when you illustrate the usage of some cool syntax and nugget packages, because you have delved into those and always explain the simplest way in a special aspect

[pkop]

Maybe shrink your avatar window and move it further to right corner..it's obscuring some of the code.

[bradgreen]

Could the core app auto-update a plug-in at runtime?

[stars]

If I have another class library with Pages and I would like to register them as transient, how should I go about it? Is it even possible with this approach?

[JoeXhungary]

How you should make a loading splash screen? I know there is a Main method inside the App class. Is it a good idea to move that to a separate class and there create a System.Windows.Window without the System.Windows.Application and use that to splash screen?

[guhansrinivasan]

Could you please tell me how to architect my WPF application ? I am new to WPF and I would like to use clean architecture with WPF which will consume an API.

[HarleyPebley]

An easy way to not have to do the copying is just set the output directory in the projects to a common location.