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: [email protected]

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

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