Glossary of Terms

Assembly An assembly is a file that is automatically generated by the compiler upon successful compilation of every . NET application. It can be either a Dynamic Link Library or an executable file. It is generated only once for an application and upon each subsequent compilation the assembly gets updated.

Device A base class, defined in the PepperDash.Core library (PepperDash.Core.Device). It can represent a physical device, or a virtual device or behaviour. Generally, most new classes defined in the Essentials ecosystem should derive from Device.

DeviceManager A static class (PepperDash.Core.Essentials.DeviceManager) that contains an unordered collection of Devices. Devices are added/registered to the DeviceManager and later can be retrieved as references by Key.

Essentials Application A Crestron SIMPL# Pro application that is made up of the Essentials Framework and any optionally any number of Essentials Plugins

Essentials Framework The collection of core libraries that make up the framework

Essentials Plugins SIMPL# Pro libraries that reference the Essentials Framework and are loaded at runtime to add or extend functionality

IKeyed An important interface defined in PepperDash.Core that requires a string property named Key, whose value must be unique.

PepperDash.Core A SIMPL# utility library referenced by Essentials Framework.