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MEF Primitives Explained
Daniel just wrote a really nice post explaining the basics of MEF primitives . I recommend this to all interested in the internals or in extending MEF. Read More...
Posted 09 June 09 09:48 by kcwalina | 1 Comments   
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Custom Programming Models for MEF (Provider Model Contrib)
The MEF composition engine operates on (composes) abstractions called ComposableParts. By default, parts are implemented as simple .NET classes annotated with MEF attributes (ExportAttribute and ImportAttribute). But, we envision that some parts will Read More...
Posted 03 March 09 02:12 by kcwalina | 5 Comments   
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MEF Preview #4 Released
We have just released a new update to MEF . I am super excited about this release as it represents something quite close to what we are going to ship in terms of public APIs. In the last milestone, we have done quite significant API cleanup, renamed many Read More...
Posted 27 January 09 08:53 by kcwalina | 4 Comments   
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MEF on CodePlex
We have just released an update to MEF. You can get it at http://www.codeplex.com/MEF The changes are quite significant: 1. The preview ships with sources under a very permissive license (Ms-LPL). 2. We now support constructor injection. Feature that Read More...
Extensible Framework Design Studio Released
This summer we had a high school intern, Nick Moloney, who worked on incorporating MEF into FDS . The fruits of his labor are now on code gallery. You can download the extensible FDS here . Congratulations to Nick! The current release has just a few extensibility Read More...
POCO Support for MEF
Jason, our technical evangelist, just posted a sample showing how MEF can compose plain old CLR objects . Read More...
Posted 07 July 08 11:37 by kcwalina | 2 Comments   
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MEF and System.AddIns
Several people asked about the relationship between MEF and the technology in System.AddIn namespace. The answer is that these two are independent and complementary features. MEF is a primarily a composition engine. System.AddIn is an add-in activation Read More...
Posted 13 June 08 09:04 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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MEF CTP 1 Released
Several members of my team have already spilled the beans, but yes (!) we just released our first public preview of MEF. You can grab the bits from here and read a past post for a high level overview . I am super excited about the release. It’s a very Read More...
Posted 05 June 08 01:53 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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Managed Extensibility Framework
Several months ago we formed what we call Application Framework Core team. The charter of the team is to play the same role in the application frameworks space (WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight) as the Base Class Libraries (BCL) team plays at the bottom Read More...
Posted 25 April 08 09:45 by kcwalina | 75 Comments   
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