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We just dropped another release of MEF source. This one includes some significant changes that we're excited about. 1. We're now completely MS-PL!!! The StructuredValues dll dependency is now removed. Your free to use the source how you like on Windows...

Following in Oren's suit, I wanted to let everyone know that Øredev is one awesome conference, and I am having a real blast! If you know me, then you know I am usually really bad about blogging about conferences I attend. I already have a backlog...

Krzysztof had a question on StackOverflow around doing MVP triads wtith MEF. He came up with a way to do it that he wasn't happy with and which I told him was pretty hacky :) After chatting with Krzysztof I took a shot and came up with something which...

I am WAY behind on my posts with a backlog that includes a MEF Module Loader, MEF Validation sample, MEF container refactoring, PDC, Kaizenconf thoughts, etc. Those have to wait though so I can announce this. patterns & practices just shipped new...

Last week, David Start of Elegant Code and I got a chance to chat on ALT.NET, Open Source at Microsoft, and MEF. David was a great host who I am sure loved  responded as he through some curve balls at me. Actually it was a provocative discussion...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We...

Brian Noyes just posted a set of Composite Extensions for WinForms which includes a working and very simple (see below) sample. The sample illustrates: Bootstrapping with Unity Module Loading Event Aggregation Simple Regions It's great to see that Brian...

I forget to mention this in my last post, but this deserves it's own. If you are going to PDC, check out the Open Space sessions , I mean Un Sessions. I know, I know you are thinking it will be a cheap knock off. Surprise, it won't! Doc the man himself...

I'll be speaking at a bunch of conferences in the next two months, two of which I am extremely excited about. PDC is one of those amazing conferences that I've been hearing about for the past three years since joining Microsoft. I am speechless that the...

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library . What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without...

MEF is going MS-PL!!! Several weeks ago, we shipped our first drop of MEF on CodePlex. The source license for that drop was MS-LPL or the Microsoft Limited Permissive License. This license enables the source to be freely used on the Windows Platform...

The past few weeks, the momentum has picked up around samples using MEF. In my last post I mentioned a few. Now today two great posts. First, Brad A (my awesome boss) has gone and done a really nice MEF 101 post . Kudos to Brad for finding the time out...

Several weeks we released a version of MEF under the MS-LPL license. We heard a bunch of feedback on the community requesting that we use a more broader license. Since then we've been exploring different possibilities. Early next week we'll have an official...

It's not an IoC container, It's not MAF, it's not the Managed Entity Framework either :-) So what is it ? There has been no shortage of discussion on this very topic since MEF was first announced . Quite simply, MEF makes building extensible apps, libraries...

I can see that StackOverflow.com can turn into addiction and I can't afford another one :) Anyway while browsing, I noticed a question on MVP vs MVC. I just couldn't resist...oh and I did add something on Presentation Model. I won't be surprised if this...

The name alone pulls me in. Continuous improvement at the end of the day is really what we're striving for. The names and methodologies we use to get there aren't important, what's important is that we get there.  With that in mind, I'll be attending...

This year I'll be skipping an awesome visit to Barcelona to head on and be with friends in Malmo, Sweden at the next Øredev. I'll be speaking on the usual suspects and some new ones Building maintainable enterprise WPF applications using Composite...

Recently I was on a mail thread where the following question was raised. "What are the kinds of things that concern folks from the ALT.NET community?" Over the past year I've been pretty involved with ALT.NET and have been part of countless...

And now for something completely different... It all started with a dream when I first joined the MEF team it was the... Plenty of folks thought it was nuts, though there was a ton of support as well. I didn't lose faith though. However somehow...

A few months ago I wrote an MSDN article on the new Composite Application Guidance (which will always be Prism to me :) ) which was just published. In the article I talk about Composite Applications in WPF in general, several design patterns in play,...

Blaine and my old team are at it again , and this time it's for Silverlight . If you are building composite applications in Silverlight, they need you! Head on over  and take this quick survey to help them to prioritize on where to focus for the...

This evening I was writing some code (Yay!) for an Xml based MEF catalog I am prototyping. I came across the need to invoke a set of methods on an IEnumerable<T> that was returned from a LINQ to XML query. Unfortunately no such animal exists on...

A few weeks ago I had a chance to chance to chat with the gang over at  Herding Code on all of the above. I was in a particularly talkative mood after coming from a full day of presenting at Tech-Ready, so I'll warn you that there might be some rambling...

Several months ago, Brian Noyes and I delivered a talk on Composite App Guidance AKA Prism at Tech-Ed USA. In the talk we discuss the essentials of Prism and do a bunch of demonstrations (well Brian did) of how to use it's various components. The talk...

Blog comments are great but sometimes you need that extra level of interaction. For those times, I just added this mega-cool feature all my coworkers have been telling me about. It lets you IM me directly from my blog when I am online. To use it, just...