Speaking in Toledo next week

I will be delivering two presentations next Tuesday September 16 at the next Northwest Ohio .Net User Group beginning at 6PM. The topics are:

Extending your Application with the Managed Extensibility Framework

Microsoft Managed Extensibility (MEF) framework allows developers to add “hooks” into their application to make it extensible at runtime. These hooks allow you or a third party to extend your application dynamically in the future. In this session, we will review the MEF tool set and build an extensible application and then extend that application using MEF.

Using Microsoft Distributed Cache to speed your application

Retrieving data from a disc or a database can be a time-consuming operation. Data that is accessed frequently can be stored in an in-memory cache, which can speed up its retrieval considerably. Microsoft Distributed Cache (aka “Velocity”) provides a framework for storing and managing cached data. In this session, we will discuss how to use this framework in your application and demonstrate some code that implements this framework.

HCR Manorcare building at 333 North Summit St. in Toledo. Click here to view a map.

I'm looking forward to my first visit to this user group in at least five years.