Try this post (yeah, it's one of mine - I had a couple of long discussions about creating a plugin model a while ago, and while I'm bored - hence clicking you sig link - I'm not that bored as to want to write it all out again )

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ghlight=plugin

I'm more than happy to chat about expanding the plugin model out - since I wrote that sample project, I've redeveloped to the model substantially to support dynamic form loading and inter-plugin communication.

- gaffa