MEF

The Managed Extensibility Framework (or MEF for short) simplifies the creation of extensible applications. MEF offers discovery and composition capabilities that you can leverage to load application extensions. In the upcoming release of .NET 4.5, MEF will ship version 2.0. Recently, I got a chance…

Extensibility is a key design point for many applications such as the Microsoft Office applications with their plug-in model for extensibility. Silverlight 4 ships with a new framework, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which provides a flexible way of building extensibility into your…

Part 3 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…

Part 4 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…

In this episode of 10-4, we revisit the Managed Extensibility Framework and take a look at all the new improvements made in the latest available release, Preview 7. For more information on the Managed Extensibility Framework, make sure to check out its home on…

Part 6 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…

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, I interview Arian Kulp, creator of the MEF Utility Runner, a unified host for system tray utility applications.  Learn a bit about MEF and how it can be leveraged to create a plugin architecture for any application, as well as how it was used to…

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable application.…

This week on Channel 9, Clint and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] MSR shows off IllumiRoom [2:10] VS/TFS 2012 Release Candidate expiring (Brian Harry) [2:44] Git-TF 2.0.1 Released (Brian Harry) [3:28] OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 (Brian…

In this article, you'll learn how to create an application with full plug-in support. Introduction It's been a number of months since I released the first version of my Utility Runner application.  Utility Runner makes it possible to run system utilities with as little overhead as possible:…