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Event: Extendable MEF Apps

NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall takes the short journey from RedGate to Microsoft Research to talk about MEF. We'll be Nuggetting, Pizzaing, and Swagging too..

If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Region:	Cambridge
Location:	Microsoft Research Cambridge Microsoft Research Cambridge Roger Needham Building 7 J J Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FB
Time:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Ben Hall	Creating extendable applications using MEF
Creating extendable applications has always been troublesome and time-consuming, there are many different approaches you could take each with their own set of issues. However, this is changing with the release of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) which is available from CodePlex and will be included with .Net framework 4.0. MEF makes extensibility more effective and can be taken advantage of both from within your application allowing for a more loosely coupled system, but also externally to allow 3rd parties to create extensions to hook into your application. In this session, you will learn how you can integrate MEF into your application for creating extensibility points, how to create the addins themselves and understand how MEF handles multiple versions of your core application and external addins. Finally, we will look at the relationship between MEF and MAF (Managed Addin Framework) and how MEF can be extended to meet your own requirements.