10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7
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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 Codeplex:
http://www.codeplex.com/mef.
Resources from this episode:
- [Nicholas Blumhardt]
Analyze MEF Assemblies from the Command Line
- [Laurent Bugnion]
MVVM Light Toolkit
For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4
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cool ive been waiting for a MEF update for a long time (indeed hardcore developer content has been pretty thin lately.....)
im kinda sad to hear that .net gets pushed aside in favor of silverlight once again.. it seems like .net desktop is always getting pushed aside
hopefully all these stuff that "eventually will make it into .net desktop" will actually make it in .net desktop
in a timely fashion..
it also seems like the shipped version of MEF in .net 4 will already be outdated before it even ships
hopefully im wrong about this but microsoft needs to show that they care about industrial devs that have to plan and cant always use beta code..
sorry for beeing so negative, mef is awsome
Great episode
Love listening to Glenn because he always speaks a LOT of code, not some PPTX non-sense and he explains everything very clearly
Thanks again for the tour about MEF in Poland Glenn!
I may have missed something at some point, but when did the ability to hook into another IoC container get added? This has been a hot topic for MEF, and I didn't see anything about it in the release notes.
Regardless, does this mean that I can use (for instance) Windsor as the back-end container for MEF, and it would give Windsor the ability to discover plugins and compose based on the Import and Export attributes in MEF? If so, this is great news! We had just decided to drop MEF in favor of rolling our own plugin discovery with Windsor... maybe we don't have to anymore.
I wonder how well Office Excel & Outlook Components will work with this framework? I'm about to find out!
Hooking up a WPF/Silverlight/Office Excel/Outlook 2007 Application real soon.
Hi Al
We definitely plan on rolling the new features into the full framework. It's too late in the cycle to do that for .NET 4.0, if we could we definitely would.
Silverlight ships on a different schedule, which opened up the opportunity to add new features like we are doing. For the desktop, we plan to make 3.5/4.0 versions of those features available on Codeplex in the interim.
Thanks
Glenn
Hi Bondsbw
We have supported this for quite a while now. Our container accepts custom ExportProviders which can talk to another source for exports including an IoC container. There's an example out there in the community now that leverages this for integration with Unity. You can find it at mefcontrb.codeplex.com.
You are correct in your understanding. With an EP, you can have MEF parts with Imports that will be provided by an IoC container. We'll be doing a blog post on this at some point. But this post covers the fundamentals: http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2008/12/25/using-exportprovider-to-customize-container-behavior-part-i.aspx
Thanks
Glenn
Thanks Tomasz. I am surprised you want to see any more of my code after the hours upon hours that you saw in Poland
Cool, good luck. Let us know how it works out, and blog blog blog
Thanks Glenn.
Do you (or anyone) know if there is work on a custom ExportProvider for CommonServiceLocator containers? I've found this: http://commonservicelocator.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=MEF%20Adapter. But it looks to only expose MEF's container as a CSL.
Thanks again!
Brandon
im glad to hear that
another question though, how will the released .net4 version relate to upcoming MEF releases? will we not reference the old versions and just reference the new ones or will you do more addative releases? im just curious
but it would seem a little strange
to have an old version just hanging around in the gac, not beeing used
Brandon
Good question and timing. Yes, I am planning to put one in contrib. Here's the code if you want it now
http://codepaste.net/s6w6az
If you look in the sample you will notice a Unity extension as well. The reason is that to use this EP, something has to tell it the available registered types so that it can map them to contract names, as MEF is solely contract based. You'll see the extension invokes a method on the EP.
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