Tonite I came across this really nice post from Kelly (@kellabyte ) on how passion drives her to continually learn and explore. She also talks about how a simple idea ends up igniting the fires and quickly spawns into putting in a lot of late nights ...

As I mentioned in my previous post , I am in the UK for the week. Sebastian Lambla (OpenRasta) has been kind enough to organize a dinner so I can meet all my geek friends from the Isles. If are in London near Victoria on Thursday eve, 15-Jul-2010 then...

Next week I’m coming to the UK where I’ll be spreading the MEF love at FEST 10 and in events in a few other cities. I’ll also be talking about REST and the new work we are doing in WCF to provide a better experience for building RESTful systems. Below...

I’ve got a good friend Scott . He works at Microsoft, he’s a technical leader, and an awesome individual. He also lives every day plagued with being a Type I diabetic. I have known Scott for years and never realized just what he and others...

Recently Miguel did a post that made me smile. He talked about several libraries from Microsoft which were released under an OSS license and thus incorporated into the Mono tree and ship as part of Mono 2.8. I smiled for two reasons. One, I was happy...

Side note: I am having serious writer’s block these days….or maybe it’s twitter’s block :-) Continuing the tradition of overdue posts…….It’s been over a month since i left the MEF team. Before moving on let...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the “Way of MEF” education day in Cupertino. I had a great time and you were an awesome audience. I really appreciate all the great / in-depth questions. It showed that you really were keeping along. I also enjoyed all...

On Saturday June 12th I am stoked to be coming to the SF bay area on behalf of the Bay.Net UG where I’ll be delivering a full day on MEF! We’re going to cover a world of topics as you can see from the list below. 1. How to lazily instantiate parts to...

You might have missed it, but a few weeks ago MEF V1 shipped in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 ! As a team we’re really happy to have seen MEF hit the wild. We believe MEF helps you to build better applications that are easier to extend. To get started...

The information below was wrapped up in my previous post on DeploymentCatalog. As a bunch of folks have been asking questions on this, it seems worth to rip out on it's own. A few caveats about DeploymentCatalog. DeploymentCatalog is a very exciting addition...

At MIX, Laurent Bugnion and I had a brainstorming chat around improving on the ViewModel locator “pattern” through the usage of a MEF generic locator that allows binding via indexer properties thus removing the need for a hard-coded locator. Tonite John...

  Several weeks ago Hamilton and I recorded several episodes with John Papa on the new Silverlight TV show on Channel 9. We did not one or two but FOUR episodes on Silverlight TV covering the basics as well as some more advanced cases like using...

Sunday I leave to Vegas to attend my first MIX. It’s exciting to finally attend this event that has such an air of mystique around it. I’ll be speaking on how you can use MEF in SL4 to partition your applications across many XAPs in a fairly seemless...

This Thursday, I’ll be joining John Bristowe and Joey Devilla to talk about composite applications, patterns, MEF and anything else that comes up. I am flexible :-) This is a live webcast where questions will be taken in real time, so ask away! I am selfish...

In the last post we migrated over to the new DeploymentCatalog. In this post we’ll look at refactoring the code to incorporate the MVVM pattern. Code from the last post is available here Why ViewModel? There’s a ton of content out there in the blogosphere...

Continuing on with the series. In part III we introduced the concept of application partitioning through the use of the PackageCatalog which ships in the Silverlight toolkit. In this post we’ll take a look at a new API known as the DeploymentCatalog which...

One of the questions we get quite often is “Why should I use MEF?” and “How can i use MEF?”. Fortunately one of our awesome field guys Mike Taulty has been rising to the occasion. He’s put together a great set of web casts on everything you wanted to...

As you start to work with MEF one of the fundamental decisions you have to make is how MEF will be hosted. There are several factors which will impact your decision including whether you are building on Silverlight or the Desktop and whether you are building...

In my last post I discussed how to export configuration. A follow up question in the comments was “What if the values change?” Meaning the values that are exported using the approach I illustrated are static. In the real world however values often can...

<Goal>Post in 15 mins or less :-)</Goal> This question which recently popped on our forums is one of the common questions we hear from customers. In this particular case, wcoenen (the person in the forums) had recently used information that...

About a month ago I posted some ideas around MEF and Prism together. As part of the post, I presented 2 high-level scenarios for MEF/Prism integration (and there are likely more) Use Prism with MEF as an add-on for extensibility. That is make modules...

Some posts titles just really grab you. I couldn’t help but think about one of those annoying ads in the back of magazine when I saw this post from Ayende. In actuality the article is more of a “How I can implement what I need from MEF in 2 hours” however...

Ever need to share code-snippets with the twittersphere? If so, Codepaste is for you. It's my favorite new tool for getting code out there in a really low-friction manner. It has really nice syntax coloring support, allows reviewers to comment, and most...

In our last post we saw how using metadata in MEF allows us to provide additional self-describing information about exports. This has a range of uses including providing hints on how the export should be handled (such as UI location) as well as allowing...

In Part I of the series we built the basics of our dashboard end ended with our app displaying a single widget. In this post we’ll show two widgets, sensing a pattern here? :-) We will show two, but we’ll put them in different places on our dashboard...