I will be speaking at three different user groups this week.  If you are in the area, please come out and listen and say 'Hi' afterward.

• Tuesday September 16, I will be speaking at the Northwest Ohio .Net User Group in Toledo, OH.
• Wednesday September 17, I will be speaking at the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group in Southfield, MI.
• Thursday September 18, I will be speaking at the Greater Lansing User Group for Microsoft .Net (GLUGNET) in East Lansing, MI.

I will be delivering two presentations each night:

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.