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Notes: Harrell off to sluggish start
Team still has faith in top pick
Defensive tackle Justin Harrell is off to a sluggish start after the first week of training camp, but the Green Bay Packers appear unconcerned.
Harrell, the 16th pick in the 2007 draft, essentially is trying to play himself into shape after not having played football since mid-September because of a torn biceps.
Apparently because of his subpar conditioning, Harrell has exhibited little staying power in practice and hasn't been impressive against the run or pass. On Thursday morning, he was one of just two defensive linemen so fatigued that they had to take a knee after a rigorous drill.
The fact that their first-round draft choice is off to such an inauspicious start isn't lost on the Packers. However, they remain confident in Harrell's future.
"Just watching him, we recognize it will be awhile before he's in football shape," strength coach Rock Gullickson said. "He's really a good kid as far as his work ethic and the amount of effort he puts into his workouts. He will not be a problem in that regard."
Harrell was unable to take part in the team portion of practice this spring because of the arm. He also reported at 320 pounds after never having played at more than 305 at Tennessee, and admits the heavier weight probably was a mistake. He intends to reduce to 305.
"I think he's OK," co-defensive line coach Carl Hairston said. "He's just got to get in better football shape. He just hasn't done anything in a long time."
For his part, Harrell doesn't seem the least bit frustrated.
"Just talking to all the coaches and veteran players, they realize what I've gone through," he said. "Any time you're away from football for a year it's going to take awhile to get your legs up under you. Plus, it's my rookie year. I guess I'll know more next year how to prepare myself for training camp."
Harrell didn't participate in the sequence of eight conditioning runs last Friday, because he wasn't signed. But if he had, it's touch and go if he would have succeeded.
Gullickson guessed Harrell would have passed because of his fortitude.
"He's got a lot of pride," Gullickson said. "He would have been one of those guys who would have gutted it out."
The Packers have monitored Harrell's turns in practice. Even in a limited role, the flashes have been few and far between.
Is it unrealistic to think Harrell might be a dominant player this season?
"No, it's not unrealistic," Hairston said. "He's done some dominant things, but he just hasn't been able to do it on a consistent basis because of the condition he's in. He'll get there."
Defensive coordinator Bob Sanders said if Harrell kept pushing himself, he would be in much better shape within a few weeks. Harrell, in fact, went so far as to say he'd be able to survive 50 snaps on opening day Sept. 9 if necessary.
"We're going through two-a-days now," he said. "When the season comes, all this will slow down and you have a chance to get your legs. You're just getting a little peek of me now. Hopefully, when I do catch up, I'll be able to showcase myself."
Good practiceIncumbent kicker Dave Rayner made all 11 of his field-goal attempts against a rush Thursday morning, compared with nine of 11 for challenger Mason Crosby. The rookie missed from 39 and 48 yards.
According to Rayner, he has made 28 of 29 in team periods, and his miss was a block that was only partially his fault.
"That's the best I've hit the ball in camp, I'd say," Rayner said. "I'm going in every day focusing on Dave Rayner and how I kick. He's a good kicker. You don't get drafted unless you're a good kicker."
Crosby mis-hit a pair of kickoffs Tuesday night in a practice at City Stadium.
"Clearly, you put more credence into the game situation," coach Mike McCarthy said. "That will carry the most weight, but practice is important."
Last year, veteran Billy Cundiff had been more accurate on field goals than Rayner in practice, but on Aug. 17, it was Cundiff who was waived.
Injury listMcCarthy offered some description of the knee injury that running back Vernand Morency suffered five days earlier.
"The soreness is in his patella tendon," McCarthy said. "It's a knee strain. It could be two (weeks). It could be four."
Practice routineMcCarthy stuck to his schedule Thursday, giving half a dozen veterans the morning off, even though the team didn't practice at all Wednesday.
"We created criteria with the rest and recovery idea," he said. "We took the number of years played, six or more. A few guys were disappointed they weren't on the list."
Said GM Ted Thompson: "As we go through the evolution of training camp and the emphasis you put on the off-season, in not too short of a time two-a-days might be a thing of the past. It might be a morning practice for 2½ or three hours, then the rest meetings.
"It's a game of attrition sometimes, I know that. At the same time, there's a certain amount of work you must get in."
Top talkFormer Packers defensive end Willie Davis addressed the players Wednesday morning.
"One thing really stuck with me," quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. "He said, 'A few get what they want. Most get what they expect.' I thought that was pretty powerful.
"He basically said, 'If you expect greatness most of you will be able to achieve it if you put your mind to it.' He said if you expect to be an average person and an average team, you're probably going to be average."


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Alumna and Honorary Alumni of the Year Announced
This year's Alumna of the Year Award recognized Louella DeVries '93, president and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor at Olive Branch Counseling Associates in Oak Forest, Illinois.
Congratulations, also, to the honorary alumni award recipients. They include:
- Keith and Bev Bruxvoort, friends of the College
- Tim Timmons, director of Trinity's physical plant
- Mark Ward, former associate provost and professor of business
Louella DeVries '93
Louella holds a master's degree in marriage and family therapy from the Adler School of Professional Psychology. At Olive Branch, she provides psychotherapy and counseling to clients as well as clinical supervision for other therapists. Louella is married to fellow alum Dr. Michael DeVries '74, professor of psychology at Trinity, and serves the children and women of Huaycan, Peru, through the Light and Leadership Initiative, an organization started by their daughter Lara '08.
Louella started at Trinity in 1972 as an art studio major, married Michael in 1973, then left to enter the workforce while Michael pursued graduate studies. In 1977, Michael was asked to join the Trinity faculty.
When she first visited Trinity, she said she never dreamed of psychology as a career, but during her time as a stay-at-home mom, Louella started to feel a call to a career outside of the home and to a career in psychology—a call she tried "very hard to ignore."
"Ignoring that call was simply not in the plan for me. I knew I was supposed to become a psychotherapist in order to answer that call," said Louella. So, she returned to Trinity in 1992 as a wife and a mother of four very active children. "People often ask how I changed from art to psychology. I simply changed the medium that I work in; it's still a creative process."
As a student, she was deeply influenced by a number of professors, including her husband Michael. "Michael had the ability to put it all together so it made sense. Theories of Personality was a class that set the stage for my graduate school work and laid a foundation for my practice of clinical psychology," said Louella. "I have been blessed to have Michael's academic influence as well as his influence in my personal life."
Since her graduation, her involvement with Trinity has been ongoing; she has served as an adjunct professor, clinical supervisor at the Cooper Counseling Center, Interim leader, and keynote speaker at the annual alumni conference. She also oversees the internship program through which Trinity students have served at Olive Branch for over 10 years.
Of her role as an alumna, Louella said, "We are all representatives of our school, and that is a pretty heavy responsibility. When I get the opportunity to speak up about Trinity, I do so. I received a great education there and so did my children."
The DeVries have four grown children: Julia, Anna 'ex 03, Jonathan ex '06, and Lara '08. They are members of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
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All of EA's that I have worked with open ie. long position and when condition changes close the open position and goes for short position right a way. There is always another condition that EA should close all the open positions and simply do NOTHING. Can you guide me how can I add this capability to my codes?
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|HK manager EIP to launch seven synthetic ETFs-continued
|February 15, 2012--Enhanced Investment Products has become Hong Kong's first local manager to aim large with synthetic exchange traded funds with the launch of a range of synthetic ETFs linked to Asian stock markets.
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|Source: FT.com
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|ETFGI reports assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan reached a new record of 132 billion US dollars at the end of Q3 2016
|October 21, 2016--ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, today reported assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex-Japan reached a new record of US$132 billion at the end of Q3 2016.
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|October 20, 2016--Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed the listing of Phillip SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT Exchange Traded Fund ("ETF")issued and managed by Phillip Capital Management (Phillip Capital).
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|October 19, 2016--An electronic trading link connecting the stock exchanges of Shenzhen and Hong Kong-known as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Stock Connect-began its trial on Monday, setting the stage for a formal launch sometime before Christmas.
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Great fishing spots along coastal Louisiana are a lot like icebergs in the North Atlantic. What you can see above the surface usually tells only a small part of the story -- and a rather insignificant one at that.
Energy platforms, for example, attract fish not because of the towering steel forests growing into the Gulf of Mexico sky, but because of the steel roots those structures extend below the surface and onto the bottom, where they act as artificial reefs. When marsh islands disappear below the surface because of subsidence and erosion, the real important fish-attracting ingredients are still there in the form of oyster reefs, shell banks and tree roots. At least for a while.
This is especially true across Black Bay, where hurricanes, erosion and subsidence have removed above-surface features that gave many of the state's best-known speck-producers their names. For example, if you motor out of Bayou Terre aux Beoufs looking for Snake Island without a GPS fix, you'll still be looking when you run out of fuel. But if you have those coordinates, you won't mind, because you're more than likely to catch your limit, even if the scenery is now less interesting.
Which brings us to the Black Tank. Perhaps no spot in Black Bay was more appropriately named or harder to miss than this one. It was an energy platform built on a concrete barge topped by -- you guessed it -- large black holding tanks. At least two generations of local anglers knew how to find it; just head south-southwest out of Bayou Terre aux Beoufs and look for a black tank.
Hurricane Katrina ended all that. The tanks came down, and the barge was broken at least in half. Now all that remains above the water is a rubble field about 100 yards long consisting of a handful of pilings, and a few rusting pieces of jagged steel.
But that doesn't matter. It still offers some of the best fishing for specks each summer.
"Oh, the only thing that has changed about the Black Tank is that they're harder to find," said Freddie Dietz, owner of Destination Delacroix Lodge, as he pointed his big catamaran toward the location on a recent trip. "You've still got all that structure in the water, which is what made it a good spot to begin with.
"The structure attracts the bait, and that brings the specks and reds. The only difference is, you don't have those black tanks anymore."
So, the tip of the iceberg may be gone, but the working sections are still very much alive -- and producing big catches of big specks this summer.
Getting there
GPS location: N: 29º 30.932, W: 89º 29.245
From Delacroix just make the 21-mile run don Bayou Terre aux Beoufs to Mozambique Point.
Gearing up
This will be bottom fishing for specks over a reef of twisted iron, concrete and oyster shells. That means you can expect to lose a lot of terminal tackle -- whether using Carolina rigs for live bait, or plain plastics. If you're going to be using live bait, make up at least a dozen extra swivel/leader/hook rigs for quick replacements.
Live bait typically will produce more fish for the average angler. Shrimp is the standard, but croakers and cockahoes also will work.
Lures that can get the job done include the Saltwater Assassin (Opening Night, glo/chartreuse), H&H Cockahoes (black/chartreuse tail) and Deadly Dudley (Blue Moon).
A trolling motor is nice to find where the fish are holding, but you'll want an anchor to keep your position once that is done.
Remember you're a long way from help out there. Make sure your radio and/or cell phones are working, and bring along enough water and food in case of an unplanned overnight stay.
Fishing it
Plan to fish the Black Tank on a day when the tidal range is .7 to 1.5 feet. And don't waste your time getting there during those hours when the tide is slack. This spot demands moving water. Also avoid days when the wind has been up from the west or south for any period of time. The water will get murky, and you'll have a tough time with boat positioning.
Trout typically will hold close to the structure on the down-current side. Approach with the trolling motor and gently lower the anchor. Cast as close to the structure as you dare, then give the bait a crank or two before letting it settle. Remember a stiff current will pull it away from the rig.
Keep moving around the structure until you begin hitting fish.
If the tidal current is exceptionally strong, try backing off about 30 yards from one end of the structure and cast your baits inside the current line in the slower water. Trout often will hang in that cone of quiet water provided by the structure because that means less work for them.
Bob Marshall can be reached at email@example.com or 504.826.3539.


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Managing Add-Ins: Advanced Versioning and Reliable Hosting
by Jesse Kaplan
Summary: A new architecture and features for a new managed add-in model will be introduced in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, which will ship concurrently with Microsoft Visual Studio "Orcas" (code name). The next version of the Framework continues our strategy of shipping newer, additive versions at a faster pace than we ship full revisions of the underlying runtime. As 3.0 was a set of additional assemblies on top of 2.0, 3.5 will be a set of new assemblies on top of 3.0.
Solution Architects and application developers wanting to add extensibility face a common set of technical hurdles. The System.AddIn assemblies that are introduced in this next release aim to address two classes of problems that arise when adding extensibility. In this article, we detail how the new managed add-in model and assemblies address each problem set. We'll then describe some advanced hosting techniques that can be used to ensure resiliency and reliability in the face of misbehaving add-ins. (12 printed pages)
Managed Add-In Model Architecture and Versioning
System.AddIn Support for Managed Add-In Hosting
Reliable Hosting Techniques
Wrapping Up
Solution Architects and application developers are typically interested in extensibility for several reasons. One common reason is that their customers each have very specific feature requests that the application itself could never keep up with, so they offer extensibility to let the customers fill in the needs themselves or buy them from a third party. Another common reason for offering extensibility is to build a rich community ecosystem around the product. By offering an extensible application you can engage the community with the product by offering the opportunity to contribute to it in the form of these extensions. Regardless of the reasons for wanting extensibility, once application developers go down this path, they'll face a common set of technical hurdles.
Starting with the next release of the .NET Framework, Microsoft is introducing the System.AddIn assemblies to address two classes of problems that many customers are hitting when they try to add extensibility to their application. We call these the "Version 1" and "V.Next" problems. Version 1 problems refer to set of issues a developer runs into when first adding extensibility to an application: This includes common tasks such discovering, activating, isolating, and sandboxing the add-ins. The V.Next problems on the other hand refer to the set of issues the developer faces as the application changes: keeping old add-ins working on new hosts, getting new add-ins to run on old hosts, and even taking add-ins built for one host and running them on a different host. The new managed add-in model, and the architecture it defines, addresses these V.Next problems, and the features in our new System.AddIn assemblies make solving the Version 1 problems much easier.
Managed Add-In Model Architecture and Versioning
Once an application has shipped (actually, this often happens before it has shipped), developers typically start mapping out all the changes, improvements, and additions they want to make to the application in the next version. The problem developers of extensible applications have to face is that they need to figure out how to do these things while still keeping all the add-ins written against previous host versions working on this new version.
Today this is typically done, in the best cases, by defining new interfaces that inherit from the old ones and have the new host and new add-ins try/casting to see if the objects they are getting back actually inherit from new interfaces or just the old ones. The problem is that this forces both the host and the add-ins to be intimately aware of the fact that these interfaces have changed over time, and they both have to take on the complexity of being aware and resilient in the face of multiple versions. In the managed add-in model, we are introducing a new architecture that allows the hosts and add-ins to each program against their "view" of the object model and provides host developers a way to put the version-to-version adaptation logic in a separate and isolated assembly.
Pipeline Architecture
Figure 1 illustrates the architecture we've designed for facilitating versionable communication between hosts and add-ins. The goal is to provide a stable "view" of the object model to both hosts and add-ins with layers abstracting how that view is marshaled across the isolation boundary, how it is versioned, and even how it is consumed on the other side.
Figure 1. The host/add-in communication pipeline
Each box in Figure 1 actually represents an assembly that contains many different types. Typically, for every custom object type exchanged between the add-in and the host, there will be at least one corresponding type in each view, adapter, and contract component. The host and the add-in are the entities which add real functionality to the system, while the other components are there to represent the object model, marshal it across the isolation boundary, and adapt it as necessary.
Looking at Figure 1, several very important properties of this architecture begin to pop out. First and foremost is the fact that the host/add-in only depends on its view; the view has no dependencies on other pipeline components. This provides the abstraction barrier that allows the host to be completely agnostic of how the add-in, and the communication mechanism between them, is actually implemented—and vice versa. In fact, if you look at the static dependencies, you will note that the entire center section—from adapter to adapter— can be completely replaced without the host or add-in even being aware of it.
Another important facet of this architecture is that this model is in fact completely symmetric across the isolation boundary—a fact illustrated in Figure 2. This means that from the architectural standpoint there is no difference between how hosts and add-ins communicate with each other and version over time. In fact, in our model the only real difference between a host and an add-in is that the host is the one that happens to activate the other: Once activation has taken place, they become nearly equal peers in the system.
Figure 2. Symmetry of communication pipeline
Now that we've described the overall architecture, we can delve into specifics of each pipeline component type and its role in the system.
· The view component—The "view" component represents, quite literally, the host's and add-in's views of each other, and the types exchanged between them. These components contain the abstract base classes and interfaces that each side will program against and are, in essence, each side's SDK for the other. Hosts and add-ins are statically bound to a particular version of these view assemblies and are thus guaranteed to be able to code against this static view regardless of how the other side was implemented. In V1 of an application, these view assemblies can be very similar (in fact, they can be the same assembly); but, over time, they can drift. In fact, even in some V1 applications, it can be very useful to have a radically different view for each side. It becomes the job of the other components to make sure that even radically different view assemblies can communicate with each other.
· The contract component—The "contract" component is the only component whose types actually cross the isolation boundary. Its job is a little funny in that it's not actually a contract between the host and the add-in: It can't be, because the host and the add-in never know which contract component is actually used. Instead, the "contract" component actually represents a contract between the two adapters and facilitates the communication between them across the isolation boundary. Because this is the only assembly that gets loaded on both sides of the boundary, it is important the contract assembly itself never versions: If the adapter on one side expected one version of a contract and the adapter on the other side expected a different version, the contract would be broken and communication would fail.
Although we say a contract can never version, we are not saying that the host and add-in must always use the same one. Since the contract is in fact a contract between adapters, and not the host/add-in, you can change the contract whenever you want; you simply need to build new adapters that can handle that new contract.
The contract's special role in our system requires restrictions on the types that are allowed to be contained inside. At a high level, all types defined in the contract assembly must either be interfaces implementing System.AddIn.Contract.IContract or be serializable value types implementing version-tolerant serialization. In addition, the members of these type—most visibly, the parameters and return values on their methods—must also be types following the same rules. These restrictions ensure that all reference types that cross the boundary implement at least the base set of functionality in IContract required by the system and that the value types are serializable and can be serialized across versions.
· The adapter component—The adapter component's job is to adapt between the view types and the contract types. In reality there are two types of adapters in each adapter component: view-to-contract and contract-to-view. In almost all cases both host and add-in side adapters contain both types since, in most object models, objects are passed both from the host to the add-in and from the add-in to the host. The adapter does its job by implementing the destination type in terms of its source type.
View-to-contact adapters must adapt from a view type and into a contract type and thus they will take the view type into their constructor and implement the contract interface by calling into that view. If the input or return values to the methods on the contract interfaces are not primitive types that can be directly passed to and returned from the view, then it will be the adapter's job to call upon other adapters to deal with those types. The contract-to-view adapter does the exact opposite job as the view-to-contract adapter and takes in the contract into its constructor and implements the view by calling into that contract. Again, it takes on the responsibility for calling other adapters when the input/return types warrant.
Now that we've defined the individual pieces of the pipeline and their roles, we can put them all together and show how a type gets transferred from one side to another:
· Start with the instance of the type to be passed: defined by the host or the add-in.
· Pass the instance to the adapter typed as its view.
· Construct a view-to-contract adapter with the instance.
· Pass the adapter across the isolation boundary typed as the contract.
· Construct a contract-to-view adapter using the contract.
· Pass the adapter back to the other side typed as the view.
This may seem like a lot of overhead, but it actually only involves two object instantiations. In the context of a call across an isolation boundary (AppDomain or Process), the performance overhead is generally much less than the margin of error of the measurements.
In the steady state, all of the above steps are handled by the chain of adapters already active in the connections between the host and add-in. The system itself only steps in to activate the add-in, pass it back to the host, and thus form the first connection. This activation step is just an example of an object being passed from the add-in side to the host (Figure 3). Notice this diagram actually has slightly different names for some of the boxes because it is referring to specific types within each pipeline component. We only use these names for the types used in the activation pathway because these are the only types in the assemblies that the system infrastructure actually deals with directly.
Figure 3. Activation pathway
Interesting Versioning Scenarios
Typically, the host's view changes over time as new versions of the application are released. It may request additional functionality or information from its add-ins, or the data types that it passes may have more or fewer fields and functions. Previously, because of the tight coupling between the host and add-ins (and their data types), this generally meant that add-ins built on one version of an application couldn't be used on later versions and vice versa. Our new architecture was designed from the ground up to provide the right abstraction layers to allow hosts and add-ins talking to radically different object models to nevertheless communicate and connect with each other.
· New host/Old add-in—The first versioning scenario that comes into everyone's mind is a new host, with a revised object model, trying to run add-ins built against previous versions of the host (Figure 4). With our new model, if the host view changes from one version to the next, the developer just has to create a second AddInSideAdapter, which inherits from the new Contract and converts them to the AddInView version.
Figure 4. Backward-compatibility: V1 add-in on V2 host
The benefit of this approach is that the old add-ins will just keep working, even with the new changes. The application itself doesn't have to keep track of different versions of the add-ins and only deals with a single host view; the different pipeline components connect to either the old or new add-in view. In these cases, the host is tightly coupled to its view, the add-in is tightly coupled to a different view, but versioning is still possible because those views are not tightly coupled to each other.
· Old host/New add-in—It will be possible to write an AddInSideAdapter that converts a newer AddInView to the older Contracts. These transformations will be very similar to the ones required to get older add-ins running on newer hosts. (See Figure 5.)
Figure 5. Forward-compatibility: V2 add-in on V1 host
· Other pipeline scenarios—In addition to these backwards-/forwards-compatibility scenarios, other interesting scenarios are enabled by this architecture. One such scenario would be for the pipeline developer to build two separate pipelines for the same view types and optimize them for different isolation boundaries—for example, to build one pipeline that is very fast and used for AppDomain isolated add-ins, and use a different one for out-of-process that handles the threading issues.
Or you could go in the opposite direction: Instead of building a pipeline to connect one version of a host to add-ins built against a different version, build one that connects add-ins built for one host to a completely different host. This scenario highlights an important property of this architecture: The developer of the pipeline can be independent from both the host and the add-in, allowing third parties to fill in gaps. If the host developer decides to stop supporting compatibility with the older add-ins, they simply stop building adapters for them, but a customer of the new host (or a hired contractor) could still build and install that adapter, extending the life of the original add-in.
System.AddIn Support for Managed Add-In Hosting
Defining an Object Model, and Making It Easy for Add-In Development
When thinking about exposing extensibility points in their applications, the first concerns of many developers are about defining the object model they wish to expose and making sure that the experience for add-in developers is as simple as possible.
We very much believe that the implementation of the host application should be separate from the object model it exposes to its add-ins: This belief led naturally to a design where the exposed object model lives in an assembly separated out from the host (we call it the "view" assembly) and contains a set of classes—typically, abstract base classes and interfaces—that represent the host's and add-in's views of each other and of the objects they exchange between them.
This definition of a view assembly with abstract base classes and interfaces leads to a programming model for add-ins that is easy and has low overhead: simply add a reference to the view assembly and then inherit-from/implement the abstract base class or interface the host defined for them. The base class or interface the add-in host specified that the add-ins inherit from is called the "AddInBase." In the simplest case, add-in developers just compile their assemblies and drop them in a directory the host is looking at. Usually the add-in developer will also apply a custom attribute to the add-in to identify it to the host, giving the host information about the add-in before it decides to activate it.
Discovery and Activation
Once the application developer has defined the object model, the next steps are to figure out how to discover the available add-ins and activate the ones it wants. Applications will typically perform these actions at startup or in response to a user request, so the performance of these operations is important. Another common requirement for discovery is to be able to query the system for the available add-ins and get information about each add-in before deciding which add-ins to activate.
System.AddIn exposes this functionality through two main classes: AddInStore and AddInToken. AddInStore contains a set of static methods used to find the available add-ins given the type of add-in requested and a set of locations to look for the add-ins. These methods return a collection of AddInTokens which represent available add-ins and provide information about those add-ins. Once you have decided which AddInTokens to activate, you simply call the Activate method on the AddInToken and receive an add-in of the type requested.
In its simplest form, discovery and activation can be performed with just a few lines (in truth, one line of code is missing from this sample):
IList<AddInToken> tokens =
foreach (AddInToken token in tokens)
In System.AddIn, we've made sure that applications can include the discovery and activation of add-ins on their startup paths and still have a good user experience. The FindAddIns method is generally safe to call from startup as it doesn't actually load any assemblies (or even read them from disk); instead, it looks in a cache file for the specified directory. This cache file includes information on all the available add-ins in a specific directory as well as the AddInBase of each add-in. Thus, FindAddIns can quickly list out all the available add-ins of a given type in each provided directory by looking only at the single cache file rather than looking at all the assemblies in each directory and enumerating through the types in each assembly looking for add-ins.
Of course, now that FindAddIns provides the guarantee that it only ever looks at a cache file, the question is: When does this cache file get generated? This is where the missing line comes in:
AddInStore.Update will first determine if the cache of the provided location is up-to-date. If the cache is current, then the method will return very quickly; if not, then it will need to rebuild the cache. We also provide a tool as part of the framework (AddInUtil.exe) that makes it easier to update the cache as part of an installation program. By separating out FindAddIns and Update, and providing a command line tool that performs the same action, we give host applications a lot of flexibility.
If startup performance is critical, the application can decide to only call FindAddIns on startup and either require that add-in developers use AddInUtil as part of their installation or give users the option to initiate an update of the cache and refresh of available add-ins. On the other hand, the application developer can decide to take a performance hit that only occurs when new add-ins are installed, and call AddInStore.Update on startup.
Of course, discovering the add-ins and deciding to activate them is only part of the story: You also need to ensure that the add-ins are activated in the desired "environment." Several things make up this "environment":
Isolation level:
· In-AppDomain
· Cross-AppDomain
· Cross-Process
· In domain with other, host-specified add-ins
· In its own domain
· Cross-process in a domain with other, host-specified add-ins
· Cross-process in its own domain with other domains in the external process hosting other add-ins
· Cross-process in its own domain, without any other add-ins running in that process
Security level:
· One of the system defaults: Internet, Intranet, FullTrust
· Custom PermissionSet specified by the host
By taking a look at the overloads available on AddInToken.Activate, you can see how easy it is for hosts to specify the desired environment. At the simplest case, the host simply needs to pass in an enum value specifying Internet, Intranet, or FullTrust, and we'll create an AppDomain with that trust level, activate the add-in in it, and then pass it back. The level of difficulty depends on how much control the host wants: On the high end, it can create an AppDomain on its own, fine-tune it to its needs, and then pass that to us for activation.
Reliable Hosting Techniques
Reliable Hosting
One issue of prime importance to many developers of extensible applications is the ability to maintain the reliability of the host in the face of buggy add-ins. In some cases, this is important because the host application itself is mission-critical and can't accept the prospect of down-time caused by an add-in; in other cases, the host developer just can't afford the cost of supporting customers coming to them for help due to bugs in third-party extensions. Some hosts need simply to be able to identify and disable the add-in that caused the crash while others need to make sure the host will keep running, regardless of what their add-ins do. Each host's reliability requirement must be assessed.
There are generally three categories of concerns for host developers when it comes to reliability: corruption of machine state, unhandled exceptions (crashes), and machine resource exhaustion. Each category poses its own unique problems and requires that different actions be taken.
Machine-State Corruption
In some ways, corruption of machine state can be the easiest problem to address because the system itself has the most support for preventing it. Generally, all the host needs to do is grant its add-ins as limited a security PermissionSet as possible and the .NET Frameworks Code-Access-Security system will ensure that the add-in stays within those bounds. The APIs in System.AddIn make this even easier either by letting hosts use one of the system defined security levels (Internet, Intranet, or FullTrust) or allowing them to define their own custom PermissionSet. The more system resources you want to protect from your add-ins, the fewer permissions those add-in have when they execute.
Unhandled Exceptions
Unhandled exceptions start to get more interesting as there are really two types of unhandled exceptions that the host has to be concerned about. The first type includes the exceptions that get thrown to the host during a call from the host into the add-in and on the same thread. To deal with these exceptions, the host needs to add a try/catch block around all of its calls into the add-in and react appropriately when an exception is thrown. The other exceptions are much harder to deal with as they are actually impossible for a host to catch: These are exceptions that occur on threads originating from the add-in or on threads where the host is not lower down on the stack.
Starting with the 2.0 version of the Common-Language Runtime (CLR), these unhandled exceptions will always be fatal to the process; thus, if care is not taken, it becomes very easy for a buggy add-in to take the host down with it. If the host's reliability requirement simply requires disabling problem add-ins (often a perfectly acceptable solution for client applications), the host can take advantage of something on the AppDomain class called the UnhandledException event. This event fires when a thread originating in the target AppDomain throws an unhandled exception that is about to take the process down. If the host simply wants to identify the misbehaving add-ins and disable them, it can subscribe to these events on the AppDomains its add-ins run in; when the event fires, it can record which add-in was running in that AppDomain. The host cannot prevent the process from being taken down, but it will be able to add the add-in to a disabled list and then restart the host.
If the host needs to ensure that a crashing add-in cannot take down the host, then it will need to take further measures and isolate its add-ins in a different process. There is an associated performance hit, but isolation ensures that only the add-in process gets taken down in the case of a failure.
Machine Resource Exhaustions
The final category of problems the host needs to be aware of is the exhaustion of system resources by the add-in. This can take the form of using excessive amounts memory or even CPU cycles. Within a process, there is no way to limit the resources of add-ins running in different AppDomains, but as soon as you move them into a different process, you can use the operating system to throttle those add-ins. Once you activate the add-in out-of-process, a few additional lines of code are required to achieve this throttling:
AddInProcess addInProcess = new AddInProcess();
AddInType addIn =
Process tmpAddInProcess =
//Lower the priority of the add-in process below that of the host
tmpAddInProcess.PriorityClass =
//Limit the add-in process to 50mb of physical memory
tmpAddInProcess.MaxWorkingSet = (IntPtr)50000000;
Hosts can go even further and use the operating system to monitor everything from the total CPU time consumed by the process to the number of disk I/O requests it is making per second, and then take appropriate action.
Wrapping Up
With the addition of the System.AddIn assemblies and the architecture they support, the Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 delivers a complete managed add-in model, first promised back in PDC 2005. You can expect to see a few additions to our feature set in future betas and even more in future versions, but all you need to build fully extensible, versionable, and reliable hosts is available now and ready for you to use. To learn more about the topics covered in this article or for general information about this add-in model, please visit the add-in team blog on MSDN (see Resourcesjour12managedaddins_topic5).
"CLR Inside Out: .NET Application Extensibility," Jack Gudenkauf and Jesse Kaplan, MSDN Magazine, February and March 2007.
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About the author
Jesse Kaplan is a program manager for application extensibility and runtime versioning on the Common-Language Runtime team. His past areas of responsibility include compatibility, managed-native (COM) interoperability, and metadata.
This article was published in the Architecture Journal, a print and online publication produced by Microsoft. For more articles from this publication, please visit the Architecture Journal Web site.


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The Babar and Badou's Musical Marching Band app gives kids three ways to interact with characters from Babar and the Adventures of Badou.
First, kids can read a story about Babar and Badou preparing for the arrival of the Rhinos. Ambassador Crocodylus is jealous of the warm welcome the Rhinos will be receiving, and he tries to ruin everything. But Badou realizes the croc's plan and saves the day by getting everyone to work together. With the Read to Me option, the story is narrated and kids are prompted to touch certain parts of the storybook pictures for animations and sound effects. The Read & Play option allows kids to read the story themselves and interact with the touchpoints on the screen. The Quiet Reading option lets kids or an adult read the story aloud, but there are no interactive touchpoints on the screen.
After reading, kids can play one of three games. In Alphabet Derby, kids must drive the Zoomer Blimp to catch the letters of the alphabet. In Go Bananas, kids help Badou catch 20 bananas. And in Treasure Hunt, kids must find five hidden objects.
In the Create section of the app, kids can make music, color digital coloring pages, and sing along with a song from the show.
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'Detective's Wife' plumbs more than one mystery
Why do we read mysteries?
Alice Conroy — lone character in Keith Huff's "The Detective's Wife," which opened over the weekend at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, under Jim Tasse's direction — suggests that mysteries' often formulaic solutions help distract us from those larger existential quandaries we can't even face, let alone solve. »Read Full Article
Another Emmy nominee with local ties airs Saturday
Another Emmy Award nomination has local ties.
Milwaukee Opera Theatre 2014-'15 season preview
Fearlessness and a passion for collaboration will imbue the Milwaukee Opera Theatre's next campaign.
Artistic director Jill Anna Ponasik has the nimble, singer-centered company performing in five different locations during the 2014-'15 season. »Read Full Article
Wiz Khalifa's Under the Influence of Music Tour cancels Alpine Valley show
The Under the Influence of Music Tour — with an all-star hip-hop lineup including Wiz Khalifa,Jeezy and other artists — has canceled its Aug. 9 show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy "due to unforeseen circumstances," promoter Live Nation announced Friday.
Live Nation says the tour's Aug. 5 stop at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Ill., is still on, however. »Read Full Article(8)
Generations at 5 Points expanding in Waukesha, as RiverMill Foods moves to Elm Grove
Generations at 5 Points in downtown Waukesha will expand into a neighboring storefront, adding a second kitchen, a second bar and more seating.
Jeff Oberholtzer, the chef and an owner, said the addition could open as soon as September. The storefront, at 290 W. Main St., was vacated last week by RiverMill Foods. »Read Full Blog Post
Fighting parents act like kids in Umbrella Group's 'Carnage'
"Why have children in the first place?"
So asks Veronica, one of the four parents who become kids themselves — of the "Lord of the Flies" variety — during the Tony-winning "God of Carnage," the 70-minute Yasmina Reza play receiving its Milwaukee premiere under Bo Johnson's direction, in the entertaining inaugural production from the just-formed Umbrella Group Milwaukee. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee's Richard Carsey, Jamie Johns handle 'Phantom of the Opera'
Two Milwaukee guys who spent years making Skylight Music Theatre shows sound great are now doing the same thing for the national tour of "The Phantom of the Opera." Happily for local showgoers, that tour visits Milwaukee for performances July 23 through Aug. 3.
Musical director Richard Carsey and associate musical director Jamie Johns conduct the "Phantom" orchestra for this tour and do the behind-the-scenes work necessary to support Cooper Grodin (The Phantom), Julia Udine (Christine) and the rest of the ensemble. It's the same kind of work they did as musical directors and keyboard accompanists at the Skylight, only without so many trucks. »Read Full Article
Festivals and free concerts in Milwaukee in the week ahead
South Shore Frolic: 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. South Shore Park, 2900 South Shore Drive, www.southshorefrolics.org »Read Full Article
Butch's Red Mill in Brookfield opens
Butch's Red Mill Pub & Eatery, serving sandwiches, pub snacks and Friday fish fry, has opened at 1005 S. Elm Grove Road, Brookfield.
It's owned by Butch Schettle, who also owns Butch's Old Casino Steak House downtown, Butch's Steak House in Stone Bank and Big Mouth Frog bar in Oak Creek. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
What to do this weekend in Milwaukee
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The Chocolate 5K — yep, a timed race with chocolate stops along the course — starts at 9 a.m. Saturday in Estabrook Park, 4400 N. Estabrook Parkway. Organizers pledge more chocolate fun after the race (there's talk of a Chocolate Slip 'N Slide, among other things), along with music and other entertainment. Registration, starting at 7 a.m., is $45 per person. »Read Full Article
Jerry Seinfeld to play Milwaukee's Riverside Theater Oct. 10
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is coming back to the Riverside Theater for a 7 p.m. performance Oct. 10.
Although he's still best known for a self-titled sitcom that this month is marking its 25th anniversary, Seinfeld is nothing if not current. His online series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" — which is just like it sounds, with Seinfeld and a fellow comic talking about being funny while driving to get some java — received an Emmy nomination Thursday for outstanding short-format nonfiction program. »Read Full Article(7)
On Tap Today: Bastille Days, South Shore Frolic and theater
In summer, the fun and the festivals go on and on.
For instance, you can storm the Bastille Days. The street party kicked off yesterday but continues today with wine, food, music, beer and an Eiffel Tower. »Read Full Blog Post


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Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones remains unconscious after having an aneurysm while driving last night. Doctors say they've found very little brain activity. This is not good. [WaPo]
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Rick Heintz
CNN is reporting that she has passedAug 20, 2008 at 2:58 pm · @Reply ·
She didn't pass away. They just retracted the story. She is in critical condition though and it's not looking good for her…that's too bad
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Prayers for Stephanie Tubbs Jones' recovery.
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For the first time since Aiken Technical College stopped fielding athletic programs in April 2013, Bruce Capers is back in the basketball coaching ranks at the helm of Gordon State Colleges team.
Capers, 51, currently the president/CEO of Capers Enterprise in Snellville, Ga., guided the ATC program to record 145 wins, won three Region 10 NJCAA Div. 1 Conference championships, won two Region 10 NJCAA Division 1 Tournament championships and appeared in one NJCAA Division 1 national tournament.
He also created an academic success plan for all student athletes. The plan resulted in 70 percent of the players he coached earning a degree.
Being a success on the court and on the field is important. We want to have a winning season, but we also want students who are a success in the classroom, Capers said. After all, the team members are student athletes and we must emphasize the student aspect of their athletic experience.
At Gordon located between Atlanta and Macon in Barnesville, Ga. Capers will coach basketball and also teach physical education.
As president of Capers Enterprises a special events company for former sports legends who conduct edutainment events for youth Capers continued a relationship he established years ago. Capers was once known as Sugar Bear and renowned for his ball handling tricks, as a defender and a long-range shooter for the Harlem Globetrotters.
He was also affiliated with Meadowlark Lemons Harlem All-Stars as a player/general manager.
I have high expectations for the players, he said. What it takes to win on the court is the same thing it takes to be a good student hard work, dedication and perseverance. I will demand all three things from the student athletes on the team.
Gordon State College athletic director Todd Davis says he is excited to have someone with Capers dedication to court and classroom success as a member of his coaching staff.
Capers earned his undergraduate degree in sociology at Berry College in 1986 and his masters in health and physical education at Valdosta State University in 2002. He and his wife, Michelle, have a son, Dezmen.


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The Copa del Rey gave us yet another set of matches to be played between Barçelona and Real Madrid.
The two best teams in Spain have already played their first leg of the quarterfinals. It took place at Madrid's home, El Bernabéu, in which Carles Puyol and Eric Abidal looked like forwards and scored the two goals for Barça while Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Madrid.
It was another great game of football as it showed us why Barçelona vs. Real Madrid has become must-watch football.
Whether you support an EPL team or MLS team, this game can't be ignored. The two giants in the football world is too much of a great game to pass and do something else.
The players stack up their intensity and usually go all out for "El Clásico" and show us who's the better team.
Now, here are five reasons why these games have become must-watch football.


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New Orleans police have arrested a 35-year-old man they suspect raped a 13-year-old girl described as having a mental disability in the Lower 9th Ward. Joshua Recasner Jr. was booked Thursday with one count of aggravated rape, which is punishable by mandatory life imprisonment upon conviction.
Police say Recasner was visiting the girl's babysitter in the 1000 block of Lamanche Street on the afternoon of Feb. 2. The unidentified babysitter saw Recasner and the girl lying in a bed and left them alone as she "attended to matters in an adjacent room," investigators wrote in court documents.
Recasner was only wearing boxer shorts, police noted. The girl, whose mental disability was not disclosed, wore shorts and a shirt.
While the babysitter was in the other room, she heard what sounded like the headboard of the bed Recasner and the girl were on hitting the wall, police allege. The babysitter also allegedly heard the girl say, "Stop, it hurt."
The babysitter went back to the room where the girl was and saw Recasner lying "in a raised prone position" over the 13-year-old with his genitals exposed, police allege. The babysitter then asked Recasner to leave and called the police, according to court papers.
A detective later met the babysitter at her address. While the detective was there, the babysitter spoke on the phone with Recasner, who apologized that the 13-year-old performed oral sex on him, police allege.
The detective obtained a warrant to arrest Recasner on Feb. 2. His bail on the aggravated rape count was set at $400,000.
In Louisiana, it is considered aggravated rape when someone has sex with a person who can't consent to the act because of a mental disability. It is also illegal for adults to have sex with anyone who is younger than 17 when the age difference is greater than two years.
Recasner has a number of previous convictions, including ones for illegal possession of a stolen auto, simple burglary and aggravated assault, court records indicate.


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Irate fans who want the Cowboys thrown under the bus for missing the playoffs the last three seasons should know it will be done in style. The team's new high-profile acquisition, dubbed "The Elegant Lady," is scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis on Tuesday for the NFL scouting combine. The Prevost Marathon Coach will be waiting to squire owner Jerry Jones and his staff around town once they arrive by plane.
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