Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less

Jeremy Likness' Blog - MEF: Build a Plugin in Under 10 Minutes

“In preparing for an upcoming talk I'll be giving on the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), I wanted to demonstrate how fast and easy it is to use in a sample, reference application. This application creates a dynamic plugin. I first link a plugin and show it active, then I create a second plugin and show how it is dynamically added to the program during runtime. It all takes under 10 minutes and would be faster if I didn't want to pace the demo to show the steps involved.

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MEF rocks and having it baked into .Net 4 is only icing on the cake. Sure it’s the new kid on the block, but if you’ve ever tried to use the System.Addin model of extending you’re app’s, you’ll thank heaven for MEF.

Look, if you’re thinking of writing your own plugin/addin/thing, stop. Stop now, don’t go past Go, go directly to MEF…

Here’s some MEF posts that caught my eye in the last month’ish (and I’ve been meaning to blog about but…);