I've been brainstorming, and looking around, and I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

I want to write a program with which I can create add-on's to go with it.

Or maybe more appropriately, a program that does nothing until addon's are activated.

I want the addon's to be in .dll form. I was thinking maybe this is how I'd do it:

When the user of the program selects the addon's to be used, the program will call a "AddOnInit()" function or something in each of the DLLs. But I'm not sure how to go doing this....VB doesn't allow declarations to be created at runtime!

The .dlls will actually be just full programs themselves, except that they have activated by my "master" program.

Anyone have any ideas on how to go about doing this? Suggestions?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated! I'm sure there are a lot of people who could use this information also!

Have a nice day!