I have worked on a project that had similar pluggable architecture like the one you described and it used the same technologies ASP.NET MVC and MEF. We had a host ASP.NET MVC application that handled the authentication, authorization and all requests. Our plugins(modules) were copied to a sub-folder of it. The plugins also were ASP.NET … Read more
I’ve been evaluating these options and here’s the conclusion that I came to. MAF is a true addon framework. You can separate your addons completely, even running them inside a separate app domain so that if an addon crashes, it won’t take down your application. It also provides a very complete way of decoupling the … Read more
As mentioned in the question’s comments, differing .NET Framework versions between the projects can cause this. Check your new project’s properties to ensure that a different default version isn’t being used.