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MEF for Beginner (Deployment Catalog) - part 12 this is the 12th post of the MEF for Beginner series, the series TOC is available here . this post will focus on Deployment Catalog . the code sample for this post can be found here . What is MEF Deployment Catalogs? the deployment catalog is actually a redesign of the older package catalog . it enable to load parts from xap packages a-synchronically. Code sample the following code sample depend on 2 assembly that...
MEF Preview 9 was released MEF preview 9 changes will be reflected the in the release of .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 . except from bug fixing, there was some changes to the API , most of the changes is related to System.ComponentModel.Composition.Initilization.dll , which is not yet available only for none Silverlight application :-( here is a short list of API changes: PackageCatalog were brought back, and changed it name to DeploymentCatalog . PartCreator was...
MEF for Beginner (Catalogs) - part 10 this is the 10th post of the MEF for Beginner series, the series TOC is available here . this post will focus on Catalogs . What is MEF Catalogs? MEF container is using catalogs as its search area definition. the catalog have instructions about where can MEF look for the compose-able parts ( import and export definitions ). in short catalogs are actually a discovery instruction . Out of the box catalogs MEF is shipping with the following out of...
MEF for Beginner (repeatable metadata) - part 9 this is the 9th post of the MEF for Beginner series, the series TOC is available here . this post will focus on having repeatable metadata definition (cases like definition of multiple categories). if you not familiar with the MEF metadata concept you may want to read part 8 . Bad practice for repeatable metadata In order to explain repeatable metadata , we will start by decorating export with untyped metadata declaration ( which consider as...
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MEF for Beginner – Part 4 (a-sync Silverlight loading) in this post we will continue from the point that we left our Silverlight application at part 3 of this series. the post will focus on how to consume external plug-ins using a-sync loading into Silverlight application using MEF . you can find more about the MEF on part 1 , part 2 and part 3 of this series. this post is written on Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 ( using Visual studio 2008 and Silverlight 3 will need some minor...
MEF for Beginner – Part 3 (Hello Silverlight) in this post we will cover the basic steps that is needed for building your first Silverlight MEF application. you can find more about the MEF on part 1 , part 2 of this series, the series TOC is available here . the following instructions will lead you through very simple steps of building simple Silverlight shell application that can consume plug-ins . this post is written on Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 ( using Visual studio 2008 and Silverlight...