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using System;

using System.ComponentModel;

using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Modularity;



namespace Microsoft.Practices.Prism.MefExtensions.Modularity

{

    /// <summary>

    /// Describe the Managed Extensibility Framework export of an IModule.

    /// </summary>

    /// <remarks>

    /// This interface is used when importing classes exported with the ModuleExportAttribute.

    /// This interface and the ModuleExport class properties should match.

    /// </remarks>

    public interface IModuleExport

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// Gets the name of the module.

        /// </summary>

        /// <value>The name of the module.</value>

        string ModuleName { get; }



        /// <summary>

        /// Gets the type of the module.

        /// </summary>

        /// <value>The type of the module.</value>

        Type ModuleType { get; }



        /// <summary>

        /// Gets when the module should have Initialize() called.

        /// </summary>

        /// <value>The initialization mode.</value>

        [DefaultValue(InitializationMode.WhenAvailable)]

        InitializationMode InitializationMode { get; }



        /// <summary>

        /// Gets the names of modules this module depends upon.

        /// </summary>

        /// <value>An array of module names.</value>

        [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1819:PropertiesShouldNotReturnArrays")]

        [DefaultValue(null)]

        string[] DependsOnModuleNames { get; }

    }

}