Writing Application "Drivers"

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Greetings,

I'm a long-time C++ developer, currently writing a C# Windows Forms application.

I have a case where an application needs some functionality that varies depending on the current data. I know I could easily write different methods or even classes and then call the appropriate one, but I'm thinking more in terms of "plug ins" that can be written and called from my app.

In C++, I might use DLLs for this. I could use LoadLibrary to load the appropriate "driver", the name of which could be a string that is part of my data.

Any suggestions on a cool approach with C#? I really don't have a good feel for how modules are located or loaded with .NET.

Thanks.

Jonathan


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