Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

re: Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

Stolo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:14:10 GMT

Great job guys. This is awesome stuff. The convention based composition is great. Thanks for your hard work on this!

re: Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

Nick — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:07:06 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Jonathan.

re: Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

Jonathan Allen — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:46:27 GMT

I like how it works without having to declare abstract interfaces for each part. Quite often I will have one and only one implementation, so maintaining a separate abstract interface is nothing but a waste of time.

re: Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

Nick — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:23:19 GMT

James, that was definitely the case with MEF1, which was 100% focused on third-party extensibility.

We realised post v1 that in using MEF for extensibility most apps were using it for internal composition as well, so we hope to make that a much smoother experience. This increases our overlap with other general IoC containers, but there is a wide spectrum of functionality in that space so really MEF is MEF :)

Whether you use MEF or another framework for composition depends on which particular aspects are important in your application.

Thanks for checking out the new version!

Nick

re: Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick]

James Manning — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:02:48 GMT

I remember being told not to think of MEF as an IoC container, but I guess that was v1 since this sure looks like IoC to me?