Recently I got a chance to work with WordPress and Drupal, those are the coolest PHP based blogging and content management systems out there, while I was impressed with the simplified installation and configuration, one thing that struck me was how simple it is to add plugins to the system. For instance I wanted a photogallery, so I downloaded the plug-in from WordPress.com, unzipped, dropped it in the plugins folder, went to the Administration panel and there it was, the plug-in sitting right there ready to activate.

Fortunately .NET now gets its own plug-in architecture framework in the form of Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF.

I wrote a post that shows how to make your applications extensible with MEF, read it here