Plugin Does not Load when has Dependent Dlls

[dnldpavlik]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.85.1

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

Build a Plugin for PowerToys Run, and have a 3rd party Dll or another Class DLL Library project for Plugin, build and copy to plug in folder.

Because of this limitation, I have to copy and paste a dll library that I am sharing between two projects that defines my domain model. If this is possible, where do I need to have these other dlls loaded so that it can be found, as I had tried the plugin directory where the plugin build output is, and the root of the PowerToys application where the exe is.

✔️ Expected Behavior

The Plug in Loads

❌ Actual Behavior

You will receive an error stating that the plug in could not be instantiated because one of the its dependencies could not be loaded.

Other Software

No response

[davidegiacometti]

Hi @dnldpavlik

Have you tried setting "DynamicLoading": true in plugin.json?
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/doc/devdocs/modules/launcher/new-plugin-checklist.md

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[dnldpavlik]

I just did, and I get the error fail to load and would be disabled, please contact plugins creator for help.

I will pull down the source of powertoys to see where it is failing and update.

[dnldpavlik]

This line in the PluginPair.cs is currently where it is throwing an error saying it can not find the plugin that matches, yet it found it before I used the dynamic setting, and when I run the same code in the immediate window it finds the class that matches. So I am not sure why it is failing the first time.

type = types.First(o => o.IsClass && !o.IsAbstract && o.GetInterfaces().Contains(typeof(IPlugin)));

The odd thing is that before I set the type of dynamic to true, it found it with no issue except for when I had another class dll being referenced for the plugin.