The Managed Extensibility Framework in .Net avoids fragile hard dependencies in your code and builds applications that are loosely coupled, lightweight, and extensible The MEF (Managed Extensibility ...

Agile adoption is on the rise in large enterprises. Robert C. Martin and his son Micah Martin are the co-authors of a new book that puts Agile practices to work in a .NET environment. Senior Editor ...

The plugin framework is a NuGet package that allows you to customise and extend a .NET application Plugins are loaded at runtime from a catalogue which can be a local source or via NuGet. Supports all ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

It’s been 17 years since Microsoft unveiled its .Net strategy at its Forum 2000 event. Although the resulting marketing blunders led to some confusion about exactly what .Net was—the name turned up on ...