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I would greatly prefer putting my static content in embedded resources. This seems like a much more natural approach for static content within plugins. Alternatively, I could live with an IPlugInstallStaticFiles interface with a method InstallGetStaticContent that was called during plugin installation/upgrade, and returned an array of CStaticFile objects. Then it would create/replace all the files returned, and delete any files not in the array.

class CStaticFile
{
    public string FileName;
    public byte[] Data;
}

Then I could do something like this:

public CStaticFile[] InstallGetStaticContent()
{
    var ns = GetType().Namespace;
    var assembly = GetType().Assembly;
    return (from name in assembly.GetManifestResourceNames()
            let stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(Name)
            let reader = new BinaryReader(stream)
            select new CStaticFile()
                  {
                      FileName = name.Substring(ns.Length + 1),
                      Data = reader.ReadBytes((int) stream.Length)
                  }
          ).ToArray();
}

Another approach which might require even less changes to FB, would be to allow the static content methods to return special resource urls, like so:

return new[] { "resource://KanbanBoard/static/js/loadmenu.js" };

This I think might be my preferred solution, since it would probably involve the least coding for me and for you.

The url string in my previous post probably should have been:

"resource://KanbanBoard.static.js.loadmenu.js"

Good suggestions.  I've opened a case.