re-mix is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 library (LGPL

GNU Lesser General Public License

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) hosted on codeplex to bring the mixin

Mixin

In object-oriented programming languages, a mixin is a class that provides a certain functionality to be inherited or just reused by a subclass, while not meant for instantiation , Mixins are synonymous functionally with abstract base classes...

 technology to C# and Visual Basic.NET.

History

.NET

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

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

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

these use cases were solved with mixins.

The company rubicon created a mixin library for the Microsoft.NET framework to add multiple inheritance to their own applications.

The mixin library became part of the open source framework re-motion. On March 2011, re-mix has been published on CodePlex as spin-off project of re-motion.