---
title: "New Article: Extend Your Application With Custom Plugins"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/27/new-article-extend-your-application-with-custom-plugins.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/27/new-article-extend-your-application-with-custom-plugins.html"
published: "2003-05-27T13:52:00"
updated: "2003-05-27T13:52:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My latest article deals with the design and implementation of a simple architecture to allow creating applications that can be extended via custom plug-ins. Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# New Article: Extend Your Application With Custom Plugins

By Roy Osherove May 27, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

My latest article deals with the design and implementation of a simple architecture to allow creating applications that can be extended via custom plug-ins.

[Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a plug-in mechanism](http://dotnetweblogs.com/rosherove/story/7610.aspx)

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- May 28, 2003

    ### [.Net Developer Journal May Issue PDF download](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/28/net-developer-journal-may-issue-pdf-download.html)

- May 28, 2003

    ### [About Dynamic Plug-in Discovery And AppDomains](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/28/about-dynamic-plug-in-discovery-and-appdomains.html)

- May 26, 2003

    ### [.Net Debugging Resources](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/net-debugging-resources-1.html)

- May 26, 2003

    ### [Microsoft Internet Controls Life Saver](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/microsoft-internet-controls-life-saver.html)


---

## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/