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Building Extensible Applications with MEF

Managed Extensibility Framework is Microsoft's answer to the extensibility problem. This course dives into MEF, its mechanics and how MEF can be used to build flexible, pluggable applications.

Dustin Davis - Pluralsight course - Building Extensible Applications with MEF
Dustin Davis
What you'll learn

In this course, you'll learn about MEF, Microsoft's answer to the runtime extensibility problem of today's applications, and how to implement it into your existing applications. What is MEF? How does it work? Should you replace your existing IoC solution with MEF? We'll answer these questions and more throughout this course. For existing users of MEF, we also cover troubleshooting and debugging parts.

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Dustin Davis - Pluralsight course - Building Extensible Applications with MEF
Dustin Davis

Dustin is a co-founder of Developer Advocates, a freelance evangelism for hire outfit. He is also a co-host on the MashThis.IO podcast. As a PostSharp MVP, he regularly attends user groups, code camps and other developer events to speak about aspect oriented programming and a range of other topics.

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