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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.

Intermediate
1h 55m
(352)

Created by Dustin Davis

Last Updated Jan 15, 2020

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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.

Intermediate
1h 55m
(352)

Created by Dustin Davis

Last Updated Jan 15, 2020

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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.

Building Extensible Applications with MEF
Intermediate
1h 55m
(352)
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Dustin Davis
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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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