Interestiong links

• Spring.NET & Attribute Driven Configuration
• MEF Runtime Plugin Swapping

TODO

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Oleg-Lvovitch-and-Kevin-Ransom-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-20 http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/376033/From-Zero-to-Proficient-with-MEF http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37579/Managed-Extensibility-Framework-Part https://emcpadden.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/managed-extensibility-framework-and-others/

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6. Why to use MEF

10 reasons why to use MEF

7. Good explanations

Audio

• Audio: MEF with Glenn Block IoC, DI vs MEF

Code

• Code: Barbarian Meets MEF
• Code: Glenn Block - Building Composable Apps in .NET 4 with the Managed Extensibility Framework Complete explanations of MEF capabilities
• Code: Complete MEF Programming Guide

Video

• Video: MEF Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom Introduction, MEF 2.0
• Video: MEF Jan Steberl CZ Introduction MEF - CZ

Presentation

• Presentation: Lecture by Nuno Cancelo
• Presentation: Lecture by Mohamed Meligy

5. MEF vs standard IoC Container

Nicely writen article about "Mef vs IoC" here.

DI is based on three dimensions, Object Composition, Lifetime Management, and Interception. MEF has potential, but as a DI container, it lacks:

• Code as Configuration
• Auto Registration
• XML configuration
• Custom Lifetimes
• Interception (another example Interception using Dependency Injection Container)

For Lifestyle it lacks:

• Per graph
• Web Request Context
• Thread Context
• Session Context
• Pooled
• Scoped
• Custom Reference

Its a option to use MEF as a Extension for standard IoC container more.

.NET IoC/DI options:

• Containers comparsion (another Unity, StructurMap, Autofac, Castle Windsor, Ninject facilitates and Spring.NET comparsion)
• OSGi.net

5. MEF Visualizer

Helps to see what is going on inside the MEF Composition Container. Download

Container = new CompositionContainer(
               new AggregateCatalog(
                    new AssemblyCatalog( Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() ) ,
                    new AssemblyCatalog( Assembly.LoadFrom( @"MEFVisualizer.Exe" ) )
                    ) );

Container.Compose( batch );

var meftoDgml = new MEFToDGML( Container){ IsNamespaceGrouping = true };   // The Visualizer

meftoDgml.WriteToDGMLFile();   // Write to DGML file