Discovering Prism 4, MEF, WPF, Entity Framework 4.1 code first, MVVM by using NuGet, DataValidation etc...

I had very hard time locating the following information and, therefore, would like to share it with others thru my blog: MEF allows your to declare your exports as either singleton or transient.

I have now extensively tested these 2 ways of dealing with MVVM(Model View View Model) in silver light & have found the following important points.

Taking a look at how you can use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to expose metadata attributes in your exports. Having the ability to expose metadata will give you the ability to make decisions around your exports with this metadata.

Taking a look at how you can use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to export either properties or methods on an object. Having the ability to export only certian properties or methods via MEF provides you another great way to extend your application. You can now have different exports for eac...

What's missing, it seems, is a mechanism to dynamically discover the XAPs that are available on the server. If I'm using MEF to support a plug-in architecture, for example, I might want to drop a XAP containing a new plug-in into a folder on the server and have the plug-in automatically show up in m...

I've built a concept ASP.NET MVC architecture that uses the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to dynamically import parts (controllers, models, etc.). I'm looking for feedback on improvements, blatant things I've done wrong and anything else.

Over the past few weeks, several people asked me to show them how to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), some of them seemed to have some difficulties with the concept of MEF. I tried explaining that it will not get easier than it is currently, hence the title of this blog post. MEF is based ...

Have you ever attempted to write an extensible application? You know the kind. The applications where your boss wants to be able to add stuff to it without rewriting the entire application and with minimum costs. Or the type of application you want to release out to the community and provide a way...

How to secure your MEF catalog

Taking a quick look at the new plugin framework from Microsoft the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF for short). In this episode we will explore how to setup your first MEF based plug-in system and show how easy it can be.

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...

Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a .NET library (released on CodePlex) that enables greater re-use of application components. You can do this by dynamically composing your application based on a set of classes and methods that can be combined at runtime. Think of it like building...