re-mix is an

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library (

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) hosted on codeplex to bring the

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technology to C# and

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History

.NET does not offer multiple inheritance. Nevertheless, in some use cases multiple inheritance support would be helpful for .NET applications. In languages such as

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these use cases were solved with mixins. The compan
rubicon
created a mixin library for the Microsoft .NET Framework Lang.NET Symposium to add multiple inheritance to their own applications. The mixin library became part of the open source framewor
re-motion
In March 2011, re-mix has been published on CodePlex as spin-off project of re-motion.

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