Videos tagged with MEF

In this episode we are going to take 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 each use case and you do not need to export the entire class, only parts o...

In this episode we are going to take 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.

In this episode we are going to take 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 plugin system and show how easy it can be.

Summary Glenn Block shows you how to use MEF to allow a plugin architecture in your .NET applications. The framework is extensible enough to allow any type to be imported and exported as managed plugins, which are called parts. Bio Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and c...