10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7

Posted By: Jason Olson | Sep 9th @ 11:22 PM | 53,975 Views | 11 Comments

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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#Sep 11th @ 1:11 PM
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Rx ftw

im glad to hear that  Smiley

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 Smiley but it would seem a little strange to have an old version just hanging around in the gac, not beeing used

#Oct 20th @ 11:49 AM
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Brandon

 

Good question and timing. Yes, I am planning to put one in contrib. Here's the code if you want it now Smiley

 

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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