Show and tell post - setting up MEF

Author: Ben Scott

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+date: 2012-04-30 20:00
+title: "Show and Tell #6 - Setting up MEF"
+author: "@belfryimages"
+comments: true
+---
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+## Setting up MEF
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+Ben posted yesterday about [setting up MEF](http://blog.belfryimages.com.au/setting-up-mef.html) with the goal of adding plugins to a simple application. It touches on splitting the plugin API from the application code, including two-way communication between the application and the plugin. This method will possibly be used to implement plugin support in [MarkPad](http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF/).
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+The project created for the post is [available on GitHub](https://github.com/belfryimages/mef-test).
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+## About the Author 
+
+Ben Scott is a developer from Rockhampton, Australia. He is employed as the IT manager of a financial planning firm, where he largely works on a C#, WinForms-based in-house investment portfolio management system, plus a number of slightly more interesting projects, some of them in */gasp/* PHP. In his spare time he likes to write posts about himself in the third person using other people's websites. He very occasionally writes at [blog.belfryimages.com.au](http://blog.belfryimages.com.au) and can usually be found on Twitter [@belfryimages](http://twitter.com/belfryimages) where he posts blurry photos of his lunch and complains about things.