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Monday, February 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Code Camp Oz 2009

I’m speaking at Code Camp Oz 2009 on April 4th in Wagga Wagga, Australia. I’ll be giving a talk called ‘A lap around the Managed Extensibility Framework’, in which I’ll give a run through of the major features of MEF. Mitch Denny has also announced the...
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:00 AM

Changing default creation policy from shared (singleton) to non-shared (transient)

One of the things that you might run across when starting to work with MEF, is that by default, all parts are created as singleton (‘shared’) instances. For example, given the following part: [ Export ] public class MyView { } Running the...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:00 AM

New Managed Extensibility Framework drop

We’ve dropped another version of the Managed Extensibility Framework over on our CodePlex site. Changes since the last drop: Diagnostics improvement. We now provide a lot more information in error messages when something goes wrong with composition. We...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:00 AM

Ruby and the Managed Extensibility Framework

Nick Blumhardt (of autofac fame) recently joined our team, and just fired up a new blog on blogs.msdn.com. Similar to Mitch (with whom he shares an office), he's another big fan of languages with unreadable syntax. He's started off with part one...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:00 AM

New Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Drop

We've dropped a new version of the Managed Extensibility Framework over on our CodePlex site. Some highlights since our last drop : New license ( MS-PL ) - redistribute, modify, or fork the source on any platform. Container re-factoring - we've...
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Monday, September 08, 2008 10:10 AM

New Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview

We have released an update to the Managed Extensibility Framework over on our new site on CodePlex . There have been quite a few changes since our last release , including: Shared Source (released under the MS-LPL license ) Constructor injection (via...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Binding private and internal members using the CompositionContainer

By default, the CompositionContainer will not bind to private and internal members. For example, given the following fictional class: public class ConnectionFactory { [ Import ( "ConnectionString" )] private string _ConnectionString; public...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 7:00 AM

Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Named Contracts

This is part three in a series of posts on dependency injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). You can find other posts in the series here: Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Simple Injection Dependency Injection...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Getting more information from the CompositionException

As you are working yourself through the Managed Extensibility Framework, you’re likely to hit a CompositionException with an error similar to the following: System.ComponentModel.Composition.CompositionException: There was at least one composition issue...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:00 AM

Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Optional Injection

This is part two in a series of posts on dependency injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). You can find other posts in the series here: Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Simple Injection Dependency Injection...
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Friday, June 06, 2008 7:00 AM

Customer Question – Does MEF allow injection without using attributes?

Peter Richie asks: “ MEF allows decoupling of TypeA's dependency on TypeB, but now TypeA and TypeB have an assembly-level dependency on the MEF assemblies. If I have a specific restriction on deployment of the assemblies required by TypeB such...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:00 AM

Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Simple Injection

This is part one in a series of posts on dependency injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). You can find other posts in the series here: Dependency Injection in the Managed Extensibility Framework – Simple Injection Dependency Injection...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:45 PM

Announcing the Managed Extensibility Framework CTP

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Managed Extensibility Framework . Krzysztof Cwalina has previously mentioned a little about what my team’s been working on and this release...
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