MEF-(Managed-Extensibility-Framework)

MEF was around the corner for nearly some time now and it was available as one of the open source framework in Microsoft’s open source community. (http://codeplex.com/mef). Now with lot of modifications and a finishing touch, it has been added as a new feature in Microsoft .Net 4.0. (Packed with Visual studio 2010) So what is MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework? What is it actual use? To answer, Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 that addresses the design problem of extensibility to some extend by allowing application to discover and use MEF extensions without using any configuration files. Here the application receiving extensions also should be MEF compatible and it will search for the MEF extensions on a particular path which is again declared inside the main application by any of the following ways.