PluginManager

NuGet based universal plugin manager

Nightly builds of PluginManager available at Appveyor - https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/pluginmanager.

Appveyor

Command line arguments

PluginManager is designed to be a reusable tool to manage plugins distributed as nuget packages. As a standalone application, PluginManager supports these command line arguments:

• --path (required) - A root path to a directory where to install packages.
• --selfpackageid (optional) - A package id to indicate which package should be treated as a package for self update.
• --dependencies (optional) - A comma separated list of package ids and versions that are required in package to be compatible (Eg. PluginContracts-v3.0,TestA,TestB-v1).
• --monikers (optional) - A comma separated list of .NET framework monikers to filter package content during extraction (Eg. net461,netstandard2.0).
• --processnamestokillbeforechange - A comma separated list of process names to be killed before any changes being processed (it is used to kill all instances of target application before installing/uninstalling dlls, that might be locked).

Icons

Some icons by Yusuke Kamiyamane.
Some other by Material Design.