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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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PDC 2008 Talk: Framework Design Guidelines
Our PDC talk has been posted on Channel9. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC58/ . Here is the talk summary: Learn about guidelines that have helped the Microsoft .NET Framework grow into the most popular developer framework Microsoft has ever created. Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 09:00 by kcwalina | 1 Comments   
Framework Design Guidelines Videos
Brad and I just did a couple of video interviews that are now accessible online. In the first one, we are talking about our PDC presentation (for those at the PDC, it’s at 4pm today). You can get it at 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (video) . Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 10:00 by kcwalina | 10 Comments   
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...
Posted 05 September 08 02:00 by kcwalina | 7 Comments   
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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...
Posted 30 August 08 10:19 by kcwalina | 4 Comments   
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API Design Myth: Exceptions are for "Exceptional Errors"
I was updating FDG section on exceptions. I added one anntation that I thought I would post here as well: KRZYSZTOF CWALINA One of the biggest misconceptions about exceptions is that they are for “exceptional conditions.” The reality is that they are Read More...
Posted 17 July 08 01:09 by kcwalina | 17 Comments   
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Nullable<T> Usage Guidelines
These guidelines were just added as part of an update to the Framework Design Guidelines book ( upcomming 2nd edition ). Hope you find them useful. Nullable<T> is a simple type added to the .NET Framework 2.0. The type was designed to be able to Read More...
Posted 16 July 08 01:47 by kcwalina | 7 Comments   
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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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Framework Design Guidelines Digest v2
Almost 4 years ago, I blogged about Framework Design Guidelines Digest . At that time, my blog engine did not support attaching files and I did not have a convenient online storage to put the document on, and so I asked people to email me if they want Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 02:19 by kcwalina | 13 Comments   
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Framework Design Studio Released
When I was coming back from Mix 2007, I was bored on the plane and so started to write a dev tool. What a geeky thing to do on a plane. :-) The tool allows comparing two versions of an assembly to identify API differences: API additions and removals. Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 11:10 by kcwalina | 21 Comments   
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