Dependent Assembly Plug-ins with Asif Siddiqi and Marcel Ferreira

Jul 30, 2023

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Asif Siddiqi (Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft) and Marcel Ferreira (Senior Product Manager at Microsoft) about the Dependent Assembly Plug-ins.

Some of the highlights:

• What are Dependent Assembly plug-ins and how it got started
• The complexity of getting this feature ready for GA
• ILMerge vs Dependent Assembly plug-ins
• The problem with using ILMerge for plug-ins
• How to have a shared dependent assembly for multiple plug-ins
• Size limit for plug-in package
• How to register the NuGet package using the Plug-in Registration tool
• Will it be possible to get a null value from the attribute without value in a plug-in image
• Support of Dependent Assembly plug-ins in Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio
• Pro Dev office hours
• Which tools are being used in the community for Power Platform development
• Debugging plug-ins with PRT

Asif's Info

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddiqiaasif

Marcel's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelbf
• @marcel_ferreira
• Pro Dev office hours: https://aka.ms/ProDevOfficeHours
• Share your ideas at Pro Dev team GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-vscode/discussions
• Power Platform Developer Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform
• Power Platform developer tools team e-mail: [e-mail]

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Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com