Referencing an Exe from another Exe

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I know this is NOT possible in Visual Studio but some how Sharp Develop can
do it !! any thoughts...
 
Nice Chap said:
I know this is NOT possible in Visual Studio but some how Sharp Develop can
do it !! any thoughts...
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From a technical standpoint that should not be a problem, but it stands
against the concept of /libraries/, which are not executables.
 
Herfried said:
From a technical standpoint that should not be a problem, but it
stands against the concept of /libraries/, which are not executables.
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It's a shame though.

I have an .exe application which calls into various plug-in DLLs. It
provides an instance of a class within the .exe so that the plug-ins can
query properties from the application and invoke methods upon it.

In VB.NET I am unable to early-bind to this object as I can't reference the
..exe. Instead I have to either late-bind (which I'd really rather not do) or
move my classes to a separate .DLL, which will fragment my application.

Is there a work-around for this?
 
Oenone said:
It's a shame though.

I have an .exe application which calls into various plug-in DLLs. It
provides an instance of a class within the .exe so that the plug-ins can
query properties from the application and invoke methods upon it.

In VB.NET I am unable to early-bind to this object as I can't reference
the .exe. Instead I have to either late-bind (which I'd really rather not
do) or move my classes to a separate .DLL, which will fragment my
application.

Is there a work-around for this?
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VS 2005 ("Whidbey") will support references to executable files.
 
I presume the Exe will be treated as a library of types rather than an
executable. What I mean is, CLR may not 'run' the referenced exe but allow
us to create instances of types within the referenced exe.
 
Nice Chap said:
I presume the Exe will be treated as a library of types rather than an
executable. What I mean is, CLR may not 'run' the referenced exe but allow
us to create instances of types within the referenced exe.
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Yes, by setting a reference to an EXE file in VS 2005 the EXE file will be
treated as a library.
 
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