Question

A bit of background:

I have a library project A, which contains a lot of data and some managed DLLs. This project has its own installer (due to its size) and can be installed independently.

Then I have some other projects which can provide extra features when they detect that project A is also installed.

Setup: I created an Interface.dll which contains intefaces that are implemented by project A. All other projects include this DLL so I can load project A at runtime and cast it to specific interface.

The problem occurs with versioning. Sometimes some projects will include newer version of Interface.dll while installed project A has dependency on an older one. When this happens my cast no longer works.

I am considering some possibilities:

  1. Ditch interface.dll and load everything dynamically.
  2. Some version detection and inform user to update his version of project A.
  3. Use some other means of communication (e.g. command line)

No correct solution

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