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If you want to specify exact plugins to load or you application required fixed plugins to load you can use current plugin provider, where you can specify xml file with a list of plugins an instances to load. The have to implement IPlugin interface.

Of the plugins is stored elsewhere you can specify plugins path by command argument SAL_Path and separate by «;» if you want to specify more than one path.

In each specified folder plugin will search for file Plugins.List.xml. File must contains root element Plugins, witch will contain a list of Plugin elements. Each Plugin element, must contains at least one attribute Assembly and array of child Instance elements:

1. Assembly — File name with extension in current folder
2. Instance — Full class name with namespace, witch implement interface IPlugin.

XML (Example)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<Plugins>
	<Plugin Assembly="Kernel.Empty.dll">
		<Instance>Kernel.Empty.PluginWindows</Instance>
	</Plugin>
	<Plugin Assembly="Plugin.Autorun.dll">
		<Instance>Plugin.Autorun.PluginWindows</Instance>
	</Plugin>
</Plugins>

XSD

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema id="Plugins" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
	<xs:attribute name="Assembly">
		<xs:simpleType>
			<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
				<xs:minLength value="1"/>
			</xs:restriction>
		</xs:simpleType>
	</xs:attribute>
	
	<xs:element name="Plugins">
		<xs:complexType>
			<xs:sequence>
				<xs:element name="Plugin" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
					<xs:complexType>
						<xs:sequence>
							<xs:element name="Instance" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
								<xs:simpleType>
									<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
										<xs:whiteSpace value="replace"/>
										<xs:minLength value="1"/>
									</xs:restriction>
								</xs:simpleType>
							</xs:element>
						</xs:sequence>
						<xs:attribute ref="Assembly" use="required"/>
					</xs:complexType>
				</xs:element>
			</xs:sequence>
		</xs:complexType>
	</xs:element>
</xs:schema>