CrossBind.Engine 0.1.0-beta.6

CrossBind Engine

Project containing the definitions of the CMU and the interface that both the CLI and the plugins implement to interoperate correctly. It also has some utility classes such as CSS processing and metadata extraction so that the plugins can generate code as accurate as possible.

Once the porject is added to your dependencies make sure to add the following lines to your csproj file.

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="CrossBind.Engine" Version="x.y.z">
      <Private>false</Private>
      <ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
    /// ... other dependencies
</ItemGroup>

This isa required for the plugin to work because the CLI already has the assembly CrossBind.Engine loaded onto memory so by excluding it we avoid runtime dependencies conflicts

also it is required to especify to MSBUILD that this assembly will support dynamic loading so add the following

<PropertyGroup>
    /// ... other props
    <EnableDynamicLoading>true</EnableDynamicLoading>
</PropertyGroup>

Now your assembly will be able to dynamically load by the CLI just make sure that the version of the CLI you intent to run the plugin with has a major and minor version equal to the CrossBind.Engine assembly version. New feature may come into the compiler and might not be fully backwards compatible.

Path version on the other and are guaranteed to work with older version of the plugins since must commonly those are only bug fix releases.