The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) CTP is out!

Krzysztof has blogged about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) a while ago. Today, the Application Framework Core team has published the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of MEF!

For those that are not familiar with the topic, MEF "provides developers with a tool to easily add extensibility to their applications and with minimal impact on existing code. The application developer can define extension points according to the functionality required of an extension, while the extension developer uses those points to interact with the application.

MEF enables this extensibility to take place without creating a hard dependency in either direction. Applications can be extended at run time without recompilation, and extensions can be used by multiple applications sharing the same extension requirements. MEF also allows an application to delay the loading of an extension while still examining its metadata, enabling efficient traversal of large catalogs of extensions."

 
Check it out! Download the CTP and discuss it!