MEF

Part 1 of a series of screencasts looking at the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in the Silverlight 4 beta. MEF is a framework that simplifies the design of extensible applications and components. It can flexibly and dynamically discover a set of loosely coupled components and…

Glenn Block, Program Manager working on MEF and self professed "MEF Maniac," makes a return visit to Silverlight TV. Glenn dives right into the code and shows how to use MEF to load and unload XAP files on demand. This is a great way to solve the problem of how to handle large…

If you've wondered how to make sense of the alphabet soup and options available for Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (DI/IoC) as well as how the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) can help you solve these problems, check out this screencast. In two minutes, you'll have a fully…

Glenn Block, Program Manager working on MEF and self professed "MEF Maniac,” makes his first visit to Silverlight TV. Glenn and John set aside the code for this episode, taking a step back to discuss and explain some of the top scenarios where using MEF adds value. If you are considering…

Part 2 of a series of screencasts looking at the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in the Silverlight 4 beta. MEF is a framework that simplifies the design of extensible applications and components. It can flexibly and dynamically discover a set of loosely coupled components and…

John interviews Hamilton Verissimo, of Castle Windsor fame, about his latest work on the MEF team. Hamilton (aka MEF Man) discusses what MEF does and why you want to use MEF with your Silverlight applications. He dives right into the code samples and walks through examples of creating composable…

In this episode of 10-4, we take a look at a new library in .NET Framework 4 and how it helps developers write applications that are more extensible and easier to maintain than before. For more information on the Managed Extensibility Framework, make sure to check out its home on…

If you're interested in adding a Language to Visual Studio, you'll want to know how the new editor's APIs fit in the concept of a "Language Service." This session will explore the over-arching concepts you'll need to know to accomplish this, as well as diving into real implementations of…

Hamilton Verissimo, Program Manager working on MEF, makes a return visit to Silverlight TV to follow up his discussion of MEF. This time Hamilton discusses different ways metadata can be used with MEF and suggests some pros and cons for each. As usual, he dives right into the code…

It's been about two years since we last had the chance to discuss changes, improvements and evolution in .NET's base class library (BCL) with some of the folks who write and maintain it. The next version of the BCL will ship as part of .NET 4.5. What's new? What did they focus on for the next…