How to secure your MEF catalog

From a hotel lobby in the sunny city of Durban, South-Africa, waiting for my plane transfer after a great TechEd Africa event. Why not write a blog post on one of my talks: the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF. As we steam ahead to release .NET 4.0, it’s great to see the amount of new APIs th...

A while ago, I did a blog post on combining ASP.NET MVC and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), making it possible to “plug” controllers and views into your application as a module. I received a lot of positive feedback as well as a hard question from Dan Swatik who was experiencing a Server Erro...

Introducing Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

Keyvan explains how to write a RouteHandler that checks for banned IPs and blocks any further processing

Another IoC Container From Microsoft ? Add-in Framework ? What the heck is it ? Sidar tries to answer.

MEF doesn't support POCO injection and XML Configuration off the shelf. Sidar implements an XML congiguration binding mechanism on top of MEF, and the article gives an insight about what to expect from MEF Extensibility models in detail.

The ways of extending Managed Extensibility Framework is discussed in this post, Custom Binders and Value Resolvers dug deeper.

A Hands-On overview to Dependency Injection Managed Extensibility Framework and the first CTP.

The MEF provides developers with a framework to easily add extensibility to their applications and with minimal impact on existing code. The application developer can define extension points according to the functionality required of an extension, while the extension developer uses those points to i...

A short introduction to adding your own buttons to #develop's Projects Pad (the equivalent to Visual Studio's Solution Explorer).

A short introduction to adding your own buttons to Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.