Last night's meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group was almost a write-off. With nobody putting their hand up to present, we had no fixed agenda. With one or two notable exceptions, it has basically fallen on myself, Andrew or Anthony to present every month for the past, I don't know, year's worth of meetings. I honestly love presenting and would do it every month, but I think someone else should be willing to have a go, if only to break the mabsteropoly.

Anyway, only four of us showed up, but we huddled around my laptop and had a first look at the Managed Extensibility Framework preview, which I had downloaded only an hour earlier. We put together a Windows Forms application which watched a folder for new "plug-ins", and when you clicked a button it displayed a message generated from those plug-in assemblies. A very simplistic demo, but I'm really impressed with how easy MEF makes it! I don't know how much impact MEF will have on our run-of-the-mill line-of-business applications here at work, but for other projects like Comicster I think it has a big future.

Next month Nathan (the "new guy" until someone newer shows up) has volunteered to present. The presentation itself is a surprise at this stage (I'm not sure even Nathan knows), but when I suggested that he do a presentation on building an enterprise data entry application using Lisp, he told me that he could instead do it with a lisp. Now that I'd like to see!