Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group - Miguel Castro - Extensibility: Software That Survives

Every year, we're bombarded with new terms to confuse and overwhelm us. Most of them redefine techniques we've seen and used before. In this session, I'll cover some of my favorite patterns that today, fall under the category of "inversion of control", and "dependency injection". I call them providers and plug-ins but under any other name, they're patterns that allow you to design your applications with extensibility and decoupling in mind. This session will also explain the concept of abstraction and why its vital in order understand how to design applications that can grow with time. Come and join me in rethinking software design in a new day and age. In this updated version of this session, I'll also show you a cool extensibility framework that I wrote that incorporates the patterns I'm showing you in a very cool and easy fashion. Look out MEF, here comes MAC! Miguel Castro is an architect with IDesign with over 22 years of experience in the software industry. He’s a Microsoft MVP, member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and ASP Insider. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences throughout the US and overseas. He has also been featured on the technology talk shows, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft’s ARCast (Architecture Podcast), and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous occasions. He specializes in architecture and development consulting and training using Microsoft technologies. Miguel is also a regular author with CoDe Magazine.