----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Smith" <Richard.Smith@c...>
>
> I'm building an application that needs to implement a pulgin
> system... subsequently i need to load namespaces dynamically...
> does anyone know how this can be done at all??

Hi,

you can do this sort of thing using reflection and the Activator class.
It's pretty neat.

> I was thinking along the lines of telling developers to create
> classes that were an extension of my namespace, like
>
> Athena.NET.Plugins.<plugin name>
>
> But how would i load these name spaces??

You'd use Activator.CreateInstance().  Check it out.

On a side issue, it might be neater and easier if you were to give them an
interface they had to implement, or a base class they had to use.  If you
don't, things could get quite chaotic.

Hope this helps,

            Geoff