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Monday, November 16, 2009 6:14 PM

Building extensible RIAs at PDC

          This week I’ll be attending PDC in Los Angeles speaking about using MEF in Silverlight. Building Extensible Rich Internet Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework   In Hall F on Thursday at 11:30 AM
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:31 AM

Should I use MEF with an IoC container? - Part 1

In my post "Should I use MEF for my IoC needs" we took a look at the question of whether or not it is appropriate to use MEF instead of a traditional IoC container. In this post we'll discuss the question of whether or not you should use both an IoC container
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:51 AM

Open-generic support in MEF Contrib

A while ago I said it couldn’t be done, at least without hacky string parsing. Folks weren’t happy and they let us know it including Oren . Our team know the power that open-generic support brings to systems, but at the time there was no clean way to
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:37 PM

Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs?

Disclaimer: This is not an encouragement to use MEF to replace your IoC container, these are guidelines to help those who are considering it's use. This has been a question we hear again and again both internally and externally. MEF in V1 is targetting
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Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:58 PM

Stable Composition in MEF Preview 6

Nick just posted on a new and very important feature we added in Preview 6 which we call Stable Composition. To give you an idea of why we added this, in the past if you had a part, say OrderProcessor, that had a required import of ILogger, and no logger
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:59 AM

MEF and XAML integration – Self composition

As I am hoping you heard from Nick , we just shipped MEF Preview 6 which includes a version of MEF for Silverlight 3! At the same time that we’ve been wrapping up on our .NET 4.0 release, we are busy working on a proper release for Silverlight vNext.
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Friday, July 03, 2009 6:08 PM

Meffifying Windows Azure

Magnus has been off doing some interesting work around integrating MEF with Windows Azure . The first question you might be asking is Why? In his words, he set out to build a template for Windows Azure templates that: enables testability abstracts away
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:51 PM

Upcoming talks at NDC in Oslo and Poland

Next week, I am heading to Europe for two weeks to give several talks. My first stop is NDC 2009 , where I’ll be delivering the following talks: Framework Design Guidelines Building Maintainable Enterprise Applications with Silverlight and WPF Building
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:14 AM

Customizing container behavior part 2 of N - Defaults

Before I get into the post, let me start off with a word of advice for new bloggers. Never say in a post, this is the first of many to come. RESIST! You are just setting yourself up for never doing that second post. I know as the last post in this series
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 7:10 AM

MEF Preview 5, changes and enhancements

We recently shipped MEF preview 5 on Codeplex , an exciting release. In the latest release, you’ll find we’ve made quite a few changes, and some really powerful enhancements to our previous codebase. In this post, I’ll talk about those changes in detail,
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Friday, April 03, 2009 11:06 AM

Creating a functional programming model for MEF

Disclaimer: This is a prototype, not production ready code. It is more illustrative of what you can do with MEF, and how things work under the covers. The other day I was working one of our internal partners who is looking to integrate MEF into their
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:14 PM

Why doesn’t MEF support open-generics for exports? Because MEF is not type based.

Update: We've posted an extension for doing open generics in MEF contrib. Read about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/08/20/open-generic-support-in-mef-contrib.aspx I get this question all the time. Recently it popped it’s head on the
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:40 PM

Recomposition and constructors

Yesterday on twitter I was expressing how far behind I am  on blogging, and how I don’t know where to start. Ayende (Oren) responded by saying “Just start bloggging!” So here goes. Ben Hall pinged me over IM yesterday asking about recomposable imports
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Monday, February 23, 2009 4:28 AM

Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator)

The title probably sounds like an oxymoron, but it is not. Recently there was a question on our CodePlex forums from Denis Vuyka about whether or not MEF supports anything like EventBroker for pub/sub type communication. Asking such a question makes a
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Monday, February 09, 2009 10:22 AM

CommonServiceLocator for MEF, a service is a service.

Today, I finally got around to uploading a CommonServiceLocator adapter for MEF. The code is actually quite simple thanks to Chris Tavares providing ServiceLocatorImplBase. (Updated thanks to feedback from several folks) public class MefServiceLocator
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