PluginFramework vs DotNetCorePlugins

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PluginFramework		DotNetCorePlugins
	Project
1	Mentions	8
519	Stars	1,534
2.7%	Growth	-
2.8	Activity	2.3
29 days ago	Latest Commit	25 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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PluginFramework

Posts with mentions or reviews of PluginFramework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-21.

Good Module framework for c# desktop applications?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Jan 2023

DotNetCorePlugins

Posts with mentions or reviews of DotNetCorePlugins. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-21.

Is there a .NET 7 alternative for creating AppDomain with LoaderOptimization?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 9 Mar 2023
Good Module framework for c# desktop applications?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Jan 2023
Is MEF still a way to go for extensibillity in dotnet 7?
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 1 Dec 2022

You should have begun with that. When you mentioned an on premises app I was not considering you were distributing the software (which is what I mentioned as an actual use case nowadays for plug-ins in my initial post). Then, as others mentioned, the DotNetCorePlugins library is the way to go.
Any resources for resolving assembly dependencies at runtime?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 13 Jul 2021

I don’t know if you are trying to do something like plugin support for .NET core, but we’ve found this project pretty reliable and handles loading dependencies properly: https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins
Cannot have plugins with conflicting versions of same dependency?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 15 Jun 2021

which leads to his very easy to use helper library, would recommend: https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins
Need help with reflection / plugins
1 project | /r/csharp | 9 May 2021

DotNetCorePlugins/what-are-shared-types.md at main · natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins · GitHub

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PluginFramework and DotNetCorePlugins you can also consider the following projects:

EventFlow - Async/await first CQRS+ES and DDD framework for .NET

Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

Bridge.NET - :spades: C# to JavaScript compiler. Write modern mobile and web apps in C#. Run anywhere with Bridge.NET.

ABP - Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET Core. Offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best practices on top of the .NET and the ASP.NET Core platforms. Provides the fundamental infrastructure, production-ready startup templates, application modules, UI themes, tooling, guides and documentation.

Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

Bitwarden - The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

Roslynator - Roslynator is a set of code analysis tools for C#, powered by Roslyn.

awesome-dotnet-core - :honeybee: A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software

PeachPie - PeachPie - the PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core

Entity Framework - EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.